Exe Estuary

Stories about Exe Estuary

Trew's Weir

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

£12 million Trew’s Weir reconstruction recast as £2 million repair

Exeter quay and canal water levels and electricity supply to thousands of city centre residents and businesses depend on survival of deteriorating weir with estimated 1-5 year lifespan.

Exeter Ship Canal swing and bascule bridges in open position

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

A379 bridges replacement plan set to wreck Exeter Ship Canal, heritage harbour and towpath active travel aspirations

Department for Transport project cost cap defeats purpose of investment as Devon County Council consults on design which will build in routine traffic disruption for 60+ years on route intended to deliver strategic road network resilience.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Exeter Port And Harbour business plan published without future budgets

Exeter City Council has finally published an Exeter Port And Harbour business plan after repeated requests from river and estuary users to see the document, which was apparently prepared three years ago.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Storm damage prompts Bowling Green Marsh emergency works

Significant storm damage has prompted emergency works to shore up the bank separating the Exe estuary from the Bowling Green Marsh nature reserve at Topsham.

Dawlish Warren and Exe Estuary mouth sandbanks

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Exeter City Council is about to seize the helm of Exe estuary maritime life: will it steer it onto the rocks?

Charges for waterways access are set to be imposed from the quay and canal basin to the coast under proposed Harbour Revision Order powers after six years of rising costs propelled by pursuit of Port Marine Safety Code compliance. They risk driving away craft of all sizes, from kayaks to yachts, while redevelopment threatens canalside land – but it’s not too late to change course.

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Exeter Energy heat plant indicative render north elevation

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Exeter City Council disregards national planning policy and Environment Agency criticism to approve Riverside Valley Park flood zone heat plant plans

Five gas boilers to provide 80% of “low-to-zero carbon” Grace Road Fields plant generation capacity for distribution to institutional consumers through privately-run 13-mile underground network expected to take ten years to complete.

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