Exeter City Council

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Exeter City Centre Strategy July 2024 stakeholder workshops flyer

Exeter city centre strategy evasions and expediencies echo cultural strategy failings

Just 85 invitation-only workshop attendees consulted during development of yet another city council strategy without a delivery plan.

Exeter City Council reversal returns funding support to Citizens Advice Exeter

Exeter City Council has reversed its decision to stop providing funding support to Citizens Advice Exeter and is instead to grant it £75,000 a year for two years.

Rough sleeping spot near Fore Street, Exeter

St Petrock’s homelessness survey finds increase in women sleeping rough in Exeter

Charity says women’s homelessness often hidden from view because of “fears around safety, harassment, and gender-based violence” in report following publication of city council snapshot count which recorded five-fold rise in rough sleeper numbers.

Whipton Gardens phase one flats

First phase capital cost of legacy Exeter City Living Whipton Gardens project to exceed £12.5 million – £364,000 per flat

Financing for second phase yet to be found as adjacent Rennes House demolition costs rise to £1 million and Exeter City Living reports year-end loss in residual Guildhall flats management role.

Exeter Cultural Strategy 2026-31 baseline report image

Clueless Exeter cultural strategy fails to address challenges facing city’s “increasingly untenable” creative sector

Survey inviting feedback on city council word salad arrives two years late, following second UK City of Culture bid failure, with delivery plan outsourced to secretive, unelected sub-committee.

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Exeter Corn Exchange

Exeter City Council criticised for submitting AI-generated planning application text

Heritage statement in support of covering crumbling concrete Exeter Corn Exchange windows with advertising hoardings included content from 2013 article about Bourne Corn Exchange 195 miles away in Lincolnshire.

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