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Tony Tudor


Tony has become fully immersed in local life since


moving to the Dartmouth in 2011 with his wife Linda. He spent four years as treasurer of the annual


Dartmouth Food Festival, was a member of the Dartmouth Barnabus Trust for the homeless, sat on the Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority board for four years and is currently involved in drawing up the Dartmouth Neighbourhood Plan - which will help to shape and guide development in the town over the next 15 years. It’s a varied list of roles and Tony has enjoyed every single one of them. All take a huge amount of commitment and time,


but perhaps the most intense is Tony’s position as steering group member and chairman of the Neighbourhood Plan’s infrastructure topic group. “I got involved because I was very concerned at


the way I saw Dartmouth being taken over by second homes, which were really there for investment,” Tony said. “They were either there because somebody had a little money and wanted to put it somewhere safe but they never intended to live here, or they were looking at a holiday letting. “Of course, with both of those situations you don’t


have anybody who is here for long periods. “Dartmouth does have a very good community, it’s a


nice mixture including people who are doing real work and people like myself who are retired but active. “It’s good to make sure that the town preserves that sense of community and has a sustainable future. “If you get too much in the way of temporary


residents a lot of things start getting difficult such as schools, healthcare and policing. “It’s quite a radical problem and it is becoming more of an issue.” To help tackle this problem, the neighbourhood plan


contains the ‘Principle Residence Clause.’ Tony explained: “The basis for any neighbourhood plan is the use of land, so if in the future somebody


By Ginny Farrell


ar from resting on his laurels, Tony Tudor has been a busy bee since retiring to Dartmouth 10 years ago as he seeks to make a difference to the town he loves.


wants to build a new residential property it can only be a permanent residence, not a second home or a holiday home.” Dartmouth’s Neighbourhood Plan is now out for consultation and in due course will be put out to a local referendum. If it receives the thumbs up from the majority of townsfolk it will be adopted. Tony’s background has stood him in good stead for


“I got involved because I was very concerned at the


way I saw Dartmouth being taken over


by second homes, which were really there for investment”


the various voluntary roles he has enjoyed in the town. “I have a few skills from my working life,” he said. “I was a commercial lawyer but involved in a lot of


educational and charity work. “I’m used to working with groups who are very


diverse, with people with all sorts of different interests. “I am also a trained mediator which comes in handy


if you are trying to balance different approaches and saying ‘well, what’s the one which is the most acceptable to most of us or to everybody’. “Hopefully, it’s everybody but you will get


differences of opinion and it’s very often negotiated down to something that is delivering something which is worthwhile, but at the same time carrying others with it so people will support the ideas. “I like solving problems,” he chuckled. The best bit of the Dartmouth Food Festival for Tony


was the children’s section of the event. “It was for the local kids and the schools. It was


lovely,” he said. “We had fun, that was the key thing, but we also had


to deliver something and make it work because it’s a huge enterprise. “It’s a great thing and it’s put Dartmouth on the


foodie map, that’s for sure.” Tony comes from a family of Devon fishermen and


lifeboat men and is passionate about the River Dart, which is why he became a member of the harbour board. “It was an interesting four years,” he said. “The harbour authority is a business in itself with a


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