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Martin Redfern
Exeter City Council’s executive committee has agreed to postpone delivery of the 2023-24 Exeter City Living business plan until a fortnight after the financial year to which it applies begins – five months later than already agreed.
Its decision is intended to allow time to appoint contractors for the first phase of the council-owned company’s long-delayed Vaughan Road development.
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Council land disposal to include rights to lay underground distribution pipework across River Exe floodplain following “low-to-zero carbon” Grace Road Fields heat plant planning approval in face of Environment Agency sequential test concerns.
Demolition will secure permanent planning consent but leave city centre site in limbo with subsequent construction start date unknown.
Exeter Observer analysis finds more students living in city centre than residents as council bid to include PBSA in housing delivery figures weakens local planning policy – but does not remove it from decision-making altogether.
Colleges hold public consultation on creation of new organisation which they say would educate 16,000 students at Exeter and North Devon campuses and employ 2,000 staff with £100 million turnover.
Developer Zinc Real Estate arrives at final proposal for up to ten storey Paris Street roundabout redevelopment after nearly two years of informal public consultations and meetings with city councillors and officers.
Council inability to identify sufficient land to meet government housing delivery targets leaves residents with faint hope of local plan policies preventing Nadder Park Road ridgeline development despite 175 public objections to scheme.
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