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  • Dartington jobs and homes plans approved

    10 December 2013

    A multi-million pound regeneration plan to provide new jobs and homes in Dartington has been approved by South Hams district councillors following a two year consultation exercise with the local community.  The district council’s Development Management Committee granted planning conse...

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  • Coast to Coast charity cycle raises money for students’ outdoor learning area

    21 November 2013

    A former assistant headteacher from a Devon school that caters for children with complex learning needs has cycled the length of Devon to raise funds for an outdoor learning area. Two years ago John Callaway reluctantly took early retirement from Bidwell Brook School in Dartington due to ill hea...

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  • Work begins on new homes development in Budleigh Salterton

    07 November 2013

    Building work has begun on a unique new homes development in the East Devon seaside town of Budleigh Salterton which has been designed around a two and a half acre community allotment scheme. The development at Greenway Lane has been named Horizon and the first homes will be available to reserve...

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  • Launch of new homes at Kings Field by local homebuilder

    07 November 2013

    Kings Field, in the Devon village of Kingskerswell, is one of the latest new homes developments to be unveiled by Torquay-based family homebuilder Cavanna Homes who have already taken several reservations on homes that will be ready in the new year.    Construction work has recent...

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  • Cavanna Homes named in UK top 75 housebuilders

    14 October 2013

    Cavanna Homes has secured its position among the UK’s top housebuilders in an annual list produced by Housing Market Intelligence in partnership with the NHBC. The company is also ranked at number 33 in the Western Morning News Fast Growth 75 which features the fastest growing companies in ...

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  • Celebrations as Torquay Girls' Grammar School unveils its new Sports Hall, named after Cavanna

    01 October 2013

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony has marked the official opening of the Cavanna Torquay Girls’ Grammar School Sports Hall – named after the family firm in recognition of their contribution to the new building and their long-standing links with the school.      &...

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  • 5 star homebuilder celebrates 90 years in business and healthy sales of new homes in Torbay

    30 September 2013

    This year Torquay’s Cavanna Homes celebrates its 90th anniversary as well as a place alongside the UK’s top homebuilders following the award of a maximum 5 star rating by the House Builders Federation. Now owned by the third generation of the Cavanna family and managed by a professio...

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  • The best of three worlds

    30 September 2013

    In an ideal world, how many people wouldn’t jump at the chance to live by the coast, be close to the countryside yet have easy access to work in the city? Cavanna Homes has managed to offer the best of three worlds with its new development Aspects on the rural edge of Dawlish. Within a sho...

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  • Autumn sees launch of new homes at Kings Field by local homebuilder

    30 September 2013

    Kings Field, in the Devon village of Kingskerswell, is the latest new homes development to be unveiled by Torquay-based family homebuilder Cavanna Homes. The company,  which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, was awarded a maximum five-star rating from the House Builders Federation ...

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  • Cavanna Homes celebrates 90th anniversary

    08 August 2013

    As Torquay-based homebuilder Cavanna Homes celebrates its 90th anniversary, Beth May looks back at how Grandfather Philip ‘P.D’ Cavanna founded one of Devon’s most successful family businesses.   The year was 1923; Britain had begun its slow economic recovery after the Fi...

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