People are being asked to help shape the future for Exeter.
Exeter City Council has launched a major public consultation as it looks to save a further £4 million over the next three years.
The authority wants to find out what services are most important to the people of Exeter at a time of deepening public spending cuts.
The City Council’s grant from central government has already shrunk from £12 million in 2011-12 to £7.7 million in the current financial year. Now it is bracing itself for further reductions, to around £5 million, by 2017-18.
Exeter City Council will be carrying out door-to-door enquiries this month as part of a new electoral registration system.
This summer marked the launch of a new system of individual electoral registration.
In mid-July, 80 per cent of Exeter residents received a letter confirming that they had been successfully transferred to the new system.
The remaining 20 per cent, were sent a form asking for further information. These may be people who have recently moved, or changed their name, for example.
The council will now begin to make door to door enquires to...
Exeter is celebrating after winning a number of major awards at the prestigious RHS Britain in Bloom South West Awards.
Pride of place went to Northernhay Gardens, which was named Best Park in the South West!
A group of 30 community volunteers, City Council Parks staff and the Lord Mayor, Cllr Percy Prowse travelled up to Trowbridge in Wiltshire yesterday to see if their hard work had paid off.
It was the first time in over ten years that Exeter as a city had entered the famous competition. The city was one of the foundation members of South West in Bloom, which...
The Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party in Exeter is waging a War on Weeds in the city.
Dom Morris says he was so fed up with trying to get a satisfactory response to the problem from Devon County Council and Exeter City Council that he took the matter into his own hands... literally.
And so armed with nothing more than a couple of shovels and a willing band of volunteers, he is now on a clean up mission.
Residents all across Exeter have been sending in their photos of huge weeds by email and calling the campaign team. There’s even a Rate-...
Exeter City Council confirmed today (Monday 8 September) that it would do everything possible to clear travellers from playing fields at Hamlin Lane. Locks to the Hamlin Lane playing fields site were cut on Friday morning and the Council has reported the matter to the police. The travellers - consisting of a number of caravans and associated vehicles - moved onto the site on Friday, forcing the cancellation of a number of football matches over the weekend.
Council Leader Pete Edwards said: "We understand the frustrations of the football clubs and are doing everything possible to...
Exeter City Council is working with the University of Exeter to look at housing for the future in the city.
Cllr Rob Hannaford, Lead Councillor for Housing and Customer Access, said: “We’re really keen to hear from people who are not currently registered for social housing. We already know quite a lot about housing need in Exeter because there are over 4,000 households registered on Devon Home Choice, now we want to hear from those not on the list.”
The Council is keen to hear about the housing circumstances of as many people as possible to ensure a fair cross-section of...
Exeter City Council has commissioned a brand new city-wide initiative – a Low Emission Strategy - to improve Exeter’s air quality.
The main aim of the strategy is to protect people - especially the vulnerable - from respiratory and other potentially life-threatening illnesses related to poor air quality caused by traffic.
“Air pollution can be a hidden killer and Exeter is no different to most cities throughout the UK,” said Cllr Keith Owen, Lead Councillor for Environment, Health and Wellbeing.
“However we mustn’t be complacent and that’s why we’re trying to...
Construction of 20 new homes at three sites in Exeter is now well underway.
The accommodation at Bennett Square (Mincinglake) and Brookway (Whipton) is expected to be completed in spring 2015. Newport Road (Countess Wear) expected to be finished by summer 2015.
The new homes will be let to families in housing need. Three of the new houses will be built to full wheelchair accessible standards.
All of the homes are being built to the Passivhaus standard, meaning they will be cheaper to heat than a standard home and provide stable internal temperatures all year round...
A number of high profile businesses from Exeter and the South West will gather at award-winning Sandy Park this November, for the annual b2b@SandyPark exhibition.
The event, which takes places on Thursday 5 November (10am–5pm), sees Sandy Park team up with the region’s top Premiership Rugby Club the Exeter Chiefs, and has already secured support from Exeter City Council plus local media The Exeter Daily, Radio Exe and the Express and Echo.
B2b@SandyPark promises to be a unique business to business opportunity for companies to not only showcase their products and services,...
Across the country, organisations and individuals are being encouraged to switch off their lights between 10pm and 11pm on Monday 4 August, leaving just a single candle or light burning for a shared moment of reflection.
Exeter City Council will be putting a light in the window of the Guildhall, which has been at the heart of civic life in the city for over 800 years. The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Percy Prowse said: “It’s so important that we don’t forget the mistakes of the past and innovative events like this help us to remember.” The Lights Out initiative is being organised by...
