A second round of funding to support community buildings at the heart of life in West Devon is now open — and we're encouraging organisations to apply for a share of this competitive fund.
Our Community Halls Capital Grant Fund offers capital funding for village halls and community centres to help improve, modernise and future-proof their facilities.
Grants are available for one-off capital projects that strengthen the long-term sustainability of these valued spaces. This could include essential building works, upgrades to key facilities, or improvements that increase accessibility and usability.
Click here to apply, and click here to find out more.
Spring is here and gardening is back on the agenda, so have you signed up to for a garden waste subscription yet?
A year-long subscription to West Devon Borough Council’s garden waste collection service will cost £70 for 2026/27. One subscription provides four generous reusable sacks, which are collected every fortnight on the same day of the week as your recycling collections, in the opposite week to your black bag refuse collections.
If you sign up, you can put grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, cut flowers and plants, small branches, weeds, leaves, twigs, and vase flowers in your bags for collection.
You can sign up for 2026/27 collections now, with the year’s subscription running until 31 March 2027.
For more information and to sign up, visit: www.westdevon.gov.uk/gardenwaste
Beautiful new trees are now brightening public green spaces across the borough, thanks to a generous donation of 40 birch trees from Stone Lane Gardens.
Famous for its national collections of birch and alder trees, Stone Lane Gardens is a charity which opens its special Dartmoor edge woodland gardens to visitors, as well as selling some of its fantastic variety of Birch trees to customers.
Six different species were donated, all with equally evocative names including Himalayan Spirit, Moonbeam, Red Panda, Sacred Scroll and Pink Champagne. The colour of the stems ranging from brilliant white to pale pinks and deep reds.
Find out more on our website.
Volunteers, ParkLife SW and council staff have been out planting wildflower meadows at Bishopsmead and Monksmead in Tavistock; the combination of perennial wildflowers and grasses will create a habitat which supports bees, butterflies, insects and small mammals.
It's all part of our Wildlife Warden Scheme, which is working to boost biodiversity across the borough - visit our website to find out more.
There's another planting session at Monksmead tomorrow on 18 April - if you'd like to get involved click here.
Earlier this week we put up some new signs in our car park on Brook Street in Tavistock that mistakenly say it closes at 6 p.m. – but there’s no need to worry, we’re not changing the opening times!
The opening times of the car park remain 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
Parking charges apply from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
Our team are working to fix the incorrect signage – sorry for any confusion!
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