Exeter Canal and Quay Trust is hosting a month of free family activities over the school summer holidays at Exeter Quay. Each Tuesday and Wednesday the Transit Shed will host workshops and each Friday Prom-Prom will provide entertainment including storytelling, puppetry, magic shows, games and a flea circus. Events begin on Tuesday 29 July with...
HEADLINES Labour councillors dive deeper into denial in decision to abandon Northbrook pool Exeter residents mourn after council unable to escape complex looming over city like a leviathan. Read more. Devon & Torbay CCA keeps quiet about 2025-35 Local Growth Plan as it takes charge of regional development agenda Combined County Authority privately selects unspecified...
Exeter City Council confirmed its decision to abandon Northbrook swimming pool at its executive committee meeting on Tuesday, diving deeper into denial despite a months-long campaign by residents which made clear that its conviction that the community facility should be closed was based on misrepresentations and missing information. To shouts of “rubbish!” from a packed...
Community centre hosts locally-sourced seasonal three-course meal to help improve café facilities. Read full article at source...
Devon & Torbay Combined County Authority has privately produced a Local Growth Plan that is intended to guide regional development for the next decade before holding a brief public consultation on its contents with the minimum-possible publicity. It says the plan has been “shaped by extensive engagement with stakeholders across the region” but when asked...
Exeter City Council is set to seal the fate of Northbrook swimming pool at a meeting of its executive committee tomorrow evening, when it is expected to decide to close the pool, for the second time, on the basis of a report produced by council director Ian Collinson. The council is apparently intent on ignoring...
A new community event with live music, talks, workshops, stalls, refreshments and family-friendly activities is being launched on Saturday 19 July at St Thomas Church. Love St Thomas Summer Festival will be headlined by Revelation Roots, with other musical performances by Poco Drom, Tano Taiko, Mum’s Choir Exeter and Walking Wounded. There will be talks...
Seven years ago last week Exeter City Council’s executive committee decided to close Clifton Hill sports centre permanently on what it claimed were best value grounds. Heavy snowfall had damaged its roof, apparently beyond repair. The council would sell the whole Clifton Hill site for development. Proceeds from the sale would be used to offset...
St Nicholas Priory is hosting a fairy tale-themed concert of opera and piano music for children and their families on Saturday 12 July. The programme includes arias, duets and trios from composers including Henry Purcell, Gioachino Rossini and Engelbert Humperdinck. Among pieces to be performed are Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air from The Fairy-Queen, No,...
HEADLINES 300-bed “co-living” blocks to trump social housing vision for Mary Arches car parks More people could be crammed into Eutopia Homes complex than current car parking spaces after Exeter City Council commits to “homes for the people of Exeter” on Liveable Exeter North Gate site. Read more. Exeter City Council renews Public Spaces Protection...
Eutopia Homes says it “prides itself on providing unique homes” but apparently doesn’t feel the same way about consulting the public on its plans to build them. In early May it began a pre-application consultation on its proposals to replace Mary Arches car parks with a pair of linked six-storey blocks containing 309 “co-living” units...
Theatre Alibi is hosting a maritime-themed Paddleboat Theatre production at Emmanuel Hall on Sunday 6 July. Signals of the Sea follows the keeper of an island lighthouse as he seeks out what’s really going on beneath the waves. The production is the culmination of workshops held with young people and families during a two-year outreach...
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Exeter City Council has renewed its Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), extending the measure introduced to curb anti-social behaviour in 2017 to June 2028. The order, which was made under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, covers the city centre and extends to include Exeter St David’s, Cowick Street, Exeter Quay and Belmont...
HEADLINES First Exeter build to rent flats marketed at £1,375-£2,350 per month with “affordable” units costing £1,080-£1,800 plus bills Eutopia Homes rents in Exmouth Junction block would leave many workers with substantially lower income than Joseph Rowntree Foundation minimum for a socially-acceptable standard of living. Read more. Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez launches Devon...