Exeter City Council
InExeter fifth term ballot budget agreed
Exeter City Council has approved a £7,000 budget to run a ballot for local businesses to decide whether Exeter’s Business Improvement District should continue to operate for a third five-year term from April next year.
Planning inspector discounts highways authority responses to dismiss Redhills housing appeal
Decision concludes that development on former vehicle breaker’s yard would have posed ‘substantial danger’ to pedestrians and drivers in rural lane on city outskirts.
Council sinks additional £1.25m into struggling Exeter Science Park as company unable to repay £7m debts
Serial scrutiny failures continue as emergency meeting held to increase city council exposure to joint venture to more than £2 million on top of £450,000 project costs plus £950,000 guarantee but rescue plan risks repeating earlier strategic mistakes.
Revised Water Lane redevelopment plans submitted for outline approval
Application for up to 980 dwellings and up to 320 student bedspaces with 40,000m2 of other uses on ex-industrial site between railway embankment and Exeter Ship Canal obfuscates numerous key issues.
Annual inspection period begins as unaudited 2023-24 city council accounts published
Special information access rights enabling residents to examine records apply until 12 July as two preceding years’ accounts still not signed off and auditor’s inquiry into council governance and financial and performance management continues.