HEADLINES City council holds sham Northbrook swimming pool closure consultation £600,000 Exeter Leisure services budget cut signed off two weeks before pool consultation opened as St Sidwell’s Point drains other council leisure sites. Read more. Met Office to sell Exeter Science Park supercomputer and office buildings Disposal motivated by replacement of nine year-old supercomputer with...
When Exeter City Council leader Phil Bialyk announced last month that he would be cutting £3.5 million from the council’s 2025-26 budget, he didn’t mention Northbrook leisure centre in Beacon Lane, home to an established swimming school and nineteen metre pool. Five days later, despite saying that next year’s budget aimed to “protect the services...
There’s still time to share your views on the final draft of Exeter’s new Corporate Plan 2025-2028. This important document sets out what the council wants to achieve in the years ahead and how it will deliver its vision for a happy, healthy and fully engaged city in the future. It will replace the existing...
At the budget-setting meeting on 28 February 2025, the Council had to identify £3.5 million savings to set a balanced budget for the next financial year. Part of the measures to achieve this included a reduction to the budget of the Leisure Service of £586,000. To achieve these savings, the Leisure service has had to...