School children from Pinhoe Primary School, Exeter, will be visiting their local recycling centre on Monday 11th February to find out what happens to our waste.
The group of 8 to 11 year olds will be at the award-winning Pinbrook Road Recycling Centre to learn what happens to paper, glass, cans, plastic and other recycling when it is brought into the site, where it goes and how it is made into new items.
The Centre opened in June 2011 to provide a second recycling centre in Exeter as the existing one in Marsh Barton was reaching capacity. The Pinbrook centre provides a site...
Senior Exeter City Council housing officers will be at St Steven’s Church, High Street from 10.30am to 3.00pm on Thursday 7th February 2013 for an informal discussion on what the housing priorities for the city should be and how these can be achieved.
Housing is one of the top priorities for Exeter City Council and they want to make sure that they are meeting the housing needs of the people in the community today and use housing as a driver for the economic growth and prosperity of the City.
Traditionally setting one of the lowest council tax levels in the country, Exeter City Council is proposing to put up its council tax for next year by £5, or just under 10p per week.
Council Leader Pete Edwards, said the £5 increase, which would see the City Council's part of the council tax bill rise from £124.84 to £129.84 for an average Band D property, still represented excellent value for money. Last year the authority set the fifth lowest district council tax in the country, more than £180 less than Ipswich - a similar size community - and apart from East Devon District...
Exeter Shilhay Community are the winners of Exeter Housing Charity of the Year 2013.
This award has been created to recognise the contribution made by the many not for profit organisations in the City who help people on a daily basis with their housing-related support needs.
Cllr Rob Hannaford, Lead Councillor for Housing and Community Involvement said: “Exeter City Council's Housing Service recognises that much of the work we do would not be as effective without the help and advice available through the many organisations in the City helping people with their housing-...
Twenty people have been evacuated by emergency services in Stoke Canon near Exeter, after the River Exe burst its banks.
Devon County Council has opened a rest centre at County Hall which is being managed by Exeter City Council Housing officers with City Council volunteers and the St John Ambulance.
Children have extra reason to celebrate this Christmas with the re-opening of a children's play area.
The play space is tucked away off Quarry Park Road in the Broadfields area, and is heavily used by many pupils from Walter Daw Primary School which is located immediately adjacent to the site.
Although well used, the site was in need of some attention as most of the play equipment was either showing its age, or had already reached the end of its useful life and been removed.
The refurbishment has seen the installation of a new multi-play unit providing opportunities...
Exeter is gearing up for a strong performance in the delivery of new housing over the next few years, despite the increasingly challenging economic conditions, the City Council has said.
A total of 26,411 new homes were registered in the UK in the three months to the end of October 2012, roughly the same level as the same period last year.
But homes registered in the public sector were down 2% compared to the same period last year.
Though there are challenging times ahead in the housing market, and especially for the delivery of much needed affordable housing,...
Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club chief executive Tony Rowe is predicting a bright future ahead for the Aviva Premiership outfit after councillors in the city gave planning consent for the multi-million pound redevelopment of their Sandy Park Stadium.
In the proposals submitted by the ambitious Devon club, they intend over at least the next five years to raise their ground capacity from that of the current figure of 10,744 to double that of 20,600.
The redevelopment plans, which will total in the region of £24 million when completed, will involve building three new...
Plans for a combined total of almost 1,000 new homes in Exeter have been given the go-ahead by the City Council.
The homes were proposed in eight planning applications that were agreed at the two October meetings of the City Council’s Planning Committee.
The proposals include over 200 affordable homes and contributions to local infrastructure, such as roads and schools, through legal agreements and future New Homes Bonus exceeding £18 million.
Three of the approved developments are at Newcourt, the others are Bishopscourt Quarry, off Sidmouth Road, St Loyes, Earl...
Exeter City Council last night voted unanimously in favour of the plans put forward to develop Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs Rugby club. The Premiership side submitted ambitious plans earlier this year that would see the stadium's capacity increase from 10,750 to 20,600 and the club's conference and banqueting facilities also expanded.
Chiefs Chairman Tony Rowe said "We built Sandy Park with a view to getting into the Premiership.
He added: "We are not intending to go back to the Championship so we are looking at the future of our sport and where we want to go...
