2. Context
Last decade – period of major change, renewal &
investment
Excellent record of investment/low vacancy rates
– no basis for complacency going forward
The most significant squeeze on public finances
in decades
Capital expenditure
Re-gearing of the relationship between business
and public authorities
3. Key Aims
A sustainable, resilient & competitive City Centre
A vibrant City Centre which offers attractions for
all
A welcoming and safe evening and night-time
environment
A better first impression
A clean, well maintained and safe environment
4. Key Issues…
Extensive listening exercise…
Building on a decade of change…
What sort of City Centre do we want?
Action Plan – organic & progress review…
A developing picture…
A challenging landscape… Positioning to meet
the challenges of e-commerce & mobile
technology…Economic pressures…
5. Key Issues…
First impressions…
The independent sector…Uniqueness… Dwell
time…
Making the most of unique quarters – and links to
with the Quayside…
Role for business…
Fresh look at areas – opportunity to build new
partnerships… Evening and night-time
economy…
6. Focus on the evening &
Night-time economy…
Further cementing Café Society
A vibrant evening and late-night economy –
attracting the broadest cross-section of the
population
Safe Zone
Using and strengthening existing partnerships –
such as EBAC
Taxis & transport
7. Observations…
Recorded crime… Actual crime…
Overall crime = moving in the right direction
ENTE crime = unacceptably static
Exeter’s statistically a ‘safe city’ – but there are real
night-time challenges and challenges around
perceptions of safety
City Centre as a ‘shop window’
Alcohol related problems a challenge nationally…
…but opportunities for Exeter to be an exemplar of
best practice
8. Successes to date…
Exeter Alcohol, Violence & Night Time Economy
Group (EAVNTE)
H2O Project
Community Alcohol Partnership
Taxi Marshall Scheme
CCTV – link in to Police Control at Middlemoor