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...
A decision is due to be made later on the future of a popular swimming pool in Exeter which is threatened with closure. Staff at Northbrook swimming pool were told in February a decision had been made to close the pool after Exeter City Council voted to cut its budget for leisure centre services by...
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...
Exeter City Council is under pressure to reconsider its plan to close Northbrook Swimming Pool after community campaigners triggered a full council debate on the closure by raising a petition imploring it to keep the pool open that was signed by nearly 2,250 local residents. As a result it will hold a debate on the...
SPECIAL REPORT Campaigners compel Exeter City Council to reconsider Northbrook pool closure with 2,250-strong resident petition Exeter City Council is under pressure to reconsider its plan to close Northbrook Swimming Pool after community campaigners triggered a full council debate on the closure by raising a petition imploring it to keep the pool open that was...
Exeter’s newest park has sprung into life, with spring flowers blooming in the April sunshine. Walkers can take in the spring colours at Northbrook Park whilst dodging the April showers! Spring is definitely in full swing at the 4.5-hectare site just off the Topsham Road. The former golf course, which is owned by the City Council...
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...
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...