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Work to assess the need for a major new entertainment venue in the city is underway.

Exeter City Council has appointed external adviser Fourth Street to carry out a needs assessment for a new 1,000 seat minimum capacity venue.

Fourth Street will analyse current and future demand for different facilities, current provision and potential opportunities and funding.

It will then report back to councillors and the New Entertainment Venue Advisory Group, which was set up by the council to support the review.

Fourth Street have been appointed following a tendering...

Farmers at a meeting of the South West NFU tenant farmers’ forum have given a cautious welcome to the National Trust’s plans to encourage wildlife and create 65,000 acres of new habitats.

The Trust has announced that it intends make sure half the farmland it owns is ‘nature friendly’ by 2025 and the chairman of the forum, Cornish farmer Chris Cardell, said he was looking forward to hearing how the Trust was planning to communicate with farmers about this process.

“We were very interested to hear about the National Trust’s plans and are were pleased to hear at the meeting...

Chris Dadds specialises in residential planning advice for developers and landowners, as well as seeking the allocation of land for residential use and securing planning permissions. He previously worked for Peter Brett Associates. He will work closely with James Petherick who has recently joined JLL as a director of residential development, based in Bristol. Together they bring a new breadth of expertise to the company’s residential development services in the South and Wales region. James specialises in the sale and acquisition of residential development land and advising developers on...

Exeter solicitors Cartridges Law will be raising a glass to help raise much-needed funds for the charity Headway Devon.

The charity, which supports people affected by brain injury, is holding a wine-tasting quiz evening, thanks to sponsorship from Cartridges Law.

The event will be held at Headway’s Exeter Quayside headquarters, The X Centre, at 6.30pm on Friday April 28.

Partner at Cartridges Law, Nicky Mein, said: ‘We are very excited to sponsor this event in support of such an important local charity. It promises to be a lively, fun-filled evening for a worthwhile...