Community & Society

Stories about Community & Society

Maximum-permitted rent increase imposed on council housing tenants

Exeter City Council has imposed a 7% rent and service charge increase on council housing tenants – the maximum permitted.

Exeter Seed Bank seed swap Sunday 26 February 2023 Maketank

SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2023

Seed Bank seed swap

Inaugural event also features talks on composting, fermentation and reducing kitchen waste with stalls, displays and activities.

MAKETANK

A Flow Orchard wassail in full swing

SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2023

Flow Orchard wassail

Traditional music and song, story and celebration with apple juice and cider round an open fire.

TREWS WEIR ORCHARD

Extinction Rebellion Exeter activists at Cambridge Circus in London in 2021

TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2023

Extinction Rebellion 100 days campaign

Exeter event is first step towards April gathering of 100,000 people in Parliament Square.

CLIMATE ACTION HUB EXETER

Exeter City Council expected to increase council housing rents

Exeter City Council is expected to impose a 7% rent and service charge increase on council housing tenants – the maximum allowed – at a meeting on 10 January.

City council to receive £1.3 million homelessness prevention grant

Exeter City Council has been allocated a £1.3 million share over two years of a £654 million government homelessness prevention grant.

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