Work will start soon on building a fabulous new £90,000 skate park in Honiton – designed by the users. The existing park will close on 17 February for around 10 weeks while the work is carried out.
East Devon District Council (EDDC), and young people from Honiton Youth Centre and Honiton Community College have been working together since July 2013 to design the improvements to the facility in Allhallows Field that skate park users have asked for.
The £90,000 has come from EDDC’s main budget and is being spent on Honiton skate park as it was judged to be the most in need of...
Members of the public will be able to see at first hand Aviva Investors’ £7 million plans for the remodelling of the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter at an event to be held on Tuesday 21 January.
The event will take place between 11am and 4pm at Unit 13 in the Centre’s Market Arcade and will feature a display showing architect’s drawings, CGIs and artist’s impressions. It will also include details about the thought processes behind the designs, the materials to be used and the timescales involved in the project.
Members of Aviva Investors’; team will be on hand to answer...
Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park today announces substantial investment during 2014, which will see five new rides and a themed indoor area open.
Chris Down, Managing Director and one of the family owners of Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park said: “Thanks to our guest feedback we are excited to be able to bring some fantastic new rides and attractions to Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park. As a family run business, we are looking to continue investing in the Park to ensure that the guest and member experience is exceptional.
Right now, 18-year old Chris Rundle should be anxiously awaiting the results of his A levels. Instead he’s just moved his company GK Signs into bigger premises and taken on 12 new staff, with two more positions to fill.
The Exeter wunderkind has acquired 8,000 square feet premises at Ashton Court in Marsh Barton, Exeter, involving a substantial investment
‘I really had to expand, ‘said Chris, who began his signmaking business at the age of 13 from his bedroom. ‘We smashed our targets for last year and so we just had to find bigger premises.
Families of residents at a Devon care home have welcomed new plans to tranform the home into a new dementia care Centre of Excellence.
Plans for the first two of Devon County Council's Centres of Excellence, at Mapleton in Newton Abbot and Woodland Vale in Torrington, go on show this week.
Open days at the homes are giving residents, their families, as well as staff and others, the first opportunity to see the plans.
They are the first of up to ten Council homes to be redeveloped over three years in their £11.2 million improvement programme.
Exeter City Council last night voted unanimously in favour of the plans put forward to develop Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs Rugby club. The Premiership side submitted ambitious plans earlier this year that would see the stadium's capacity increase from 10,750 to 20,600 and the club's conference and banqueting facilities also expanded.
Chiefs Chairman Tony Rowe said "We built Sandy Park with a view to getting into the Premiership.
He added: "We are not intending to go back to the Championship so we are looking at the future of our sport and where we want to go...
