In 2011 all of Devon’s County Councillors were given an equal one off  share of the remaining capital funding from the sale of Exeter Airport to use in their local areas in addition to the normal annual allocation of community funding. Exwick’s County Councillor Rob Hannaford has been working closely with the local Exwick Labour team Cllr Ollie Pearson, Cllr Rachel Sutton and Cllr Phil Bialyk to ensure that the funds are put to good long term uses. As usual in the new financial year £10,000 will be again allocated to Cllr Rob Hannaford for local community projects so please come forward with your ideas and suggestions to help improve Exwick.

So far the following grants have been made and we will update you about the remaining grants shortly.

Exwick Parish Hall – £2,000 granted for the community garden refurbishment that includes an allotment area, sensory garden and raised beds.

Exeter Scouts – £1,000 towards an £18,000 refurbishment and redevelopment of the Exeter Scouts HQ at Ashton Road Marsh Barton , to support the work of the 936 local  members, that includes over 700 children and young people in and around Exeter.

Exwick Heights Primary School – £3,000 granted for a new outdoor play area, raised garden beds and a new covered play ground area.

AGE UK – £4,000 towards the new expanded centre on Cowick Street to maintain and increase the important work already being done for local people.

Redhillls Community Primary School – £3,000 granted for a new covered play area, sun sails and out door play equipment.

Bowhill School – £2,950 granted for new multi purpose climbing frame and new play area.

Emmanuel Church – £2,000 to help repair roof area near the community centre entrance to ensure that the nursery and outdoor areas are kept safe and in use.

In 2011 all of Devon’s County Councillors were given an equal one off share of the remaining capital funding from the sale of Exeter Airport to use in their local areas in addition to the normal annual allocation of community funding. Exwick’s County Councillor Rob Hannaford has been working closely with the local Exwick Labour team Cllr Ollie Pearson, Cllr Rachel Sutton and Cllr Phil Bialyk to ensure that the funds are put to good long term uses. As usual in the new financial year £10,000 will be again allocated to Cllr Rob Hannaford for local community projects so please come forward with your ideas and suggestions to help improve Exwick.

So far the following grants have been made and we will update you about the remaining grants shortly.

Exwick Parish Hall – £2,000 granted for the community garden refurbishment that includes an allotment area, sensory garden and raised beds.

Exeter Scouts – £1,000 towards an £18,000 refurbishment and redevelopment of the Exeter Scouts HQ at Ashton Road Marsh Barton , to support the work of the 936 local  members, that includes over 700 children and young people in and around Exeter.

Exwick Heights Primary School – £3,000 granted for a new outdoor play area, raised garden beds and a new covered play ground area.

AGE UK – £4,000 towards the new expanded centre on Cowick Street to maintain and increase the important work already being done for local people.

Redhillls Community Primary School – £3,000 granted for a new covered play area, sun sails and out door play equipment.

Bowhill School – £2,950 granted for new multi purpose climbing frame and new play area.

Emmanuel Church – £2,000 to help repair roof area near the community centre entrance to ensure that the nursery and outdoor areas are kept safe and in use.

Last autumn we were very pleased to report that we had successfully campaigned and secured extra additional highways investment for pavements and roads in Exwick.  The places to benefit include  Isleworth Road, St Andrews Road, Landhayes Road, Barley Lane, Howard Close, Liffey Rise, Guinness Lane, Peterborough Road, Chester Close, Palmerston Drive, Rowan Way, Wellpark Close, Holne Court and Station Road.

During the works you local Labour Team in Exwick have been out and about progress checking the work.

Labour candidate Ollie Pearson said, “Its fantastic that fourteen areas in Exwick are being improved. However with that said there are a few more missing in Exwick on this list, so lets hope that they can get done in the next financial year. Please keep letting us know if you would like an update on your local area or would like to report any new problems.”

As advertised locally and reported in the Echo ten luxury homes could be built on the site of the former Exeter headquarters of Guide Dogs for the Blind. A planning application has been lodged which would see a mix of single and two-storey homes in Exwick Lane.

Cllr Rob Hannaford has attended each of the relevant Planning Committee Meetings to raise concerns and said, “The development would be contrary to the local development plan for the area, and could set a precedent for over development in the adjacent fields.”

Labour candidate Ollie Pearson stated, “I will also be opposing this application. It is just too close to Exwick Heights Primary School. It would generate much more traffic along this section of Exwick Lane, which is already heavily used by parents and pupils, and which the County Council pedestrianized. Exwick needs more community facilities and services before any more residential developments are built, as we need to catch up with many decades of development without infrastructure.”

Exwick Labour Councillors have supported an application by the Exwick Community Association for a Police Authority Grant through our local Community Police Team to improve security around the popular and busy centre.

If successful Cllr Rob Hannaford will also allocate a further community grant to help improve the out door area at the rear of the centre, so that its easier for toddlers and others to make full us of the space.

• Exwick Community Centre & Shop  – We reported the seriously over flowing bottle banks.
• Exwick Playing Fields and Flower Pot Playing Fields – Graffiti and vandalised Signage at the changing rooms and in the car park reported.
• Antonine Crescent – Obscured 20mph sign reported for action.
• Kestor Drive – Anti Social Behaviour , housing issues and car damage reported and being monitored.
• Exwick Hill – After complaints from residents we have requested that the Higher Exwick Hill is replaced with one that just indicates Exwick Hill.
• Buddle Lane – Damaged street sign reported.
• Knowle Drive and Moorland Way – New street signs now in place.
• Redhills – We are continuing to work with local residents and community police teams to address concerns about vandalism, antisocial behaviour, and noise issues at the bottom of Redhills, at both bus stops and around the Isleworth Road shopping area. Please keep us informed of any       further problems so that we can ensure that they are logged.
• Gloucester Road Play Area – Following concerns from local parents and families we have requested that a safety latch is put on the main gate to prevent children running out on to the road as a matter of urgency.
• Honeysuckle Court – Abandoned van and anti social behaviour reported for action.
• Moorland Way – We are still pressing for action on the poor road surface.
• Guys Hylton Allotments – Vandalism and graffiti on the walls of the factory and along the cycle track reported.
• Exwick Villas and Exwick Road – As promised at the public meeting held at the Village Inn, we raised the on-going serious traffic, access and parking issues at the Exeter Highways Committee with officers and police, and have requested that the agreed changes are advertised.
  
• Ashleigh Close – We have reported the very poor road surface. We have pressed for action to address the immediate safety defects, and sought confirmation when the road is due to be fully resurfaced.
• Medley Court – Anti social behaviour and refuse collection issues being actioned and monitored.
• Addison Close – Damaged Neighbourhood Watch sign reported.

Labour County Councillor Rob Hannaford was delighted to find that the long overdue pavement repair work has started in Peterborough Road, Exwick.

Rob said, ‘There is clearly going to be some short-term disruption while the work is being done but we all know how much these repairs are needed.”

If you do have a problem, be it about this issue or anything else in Exwick, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Cllr Rachel Sutton recently spent a morning ‘on the beat’ with a member of the Exeter City Council CPO Team (Civil Parking Enforcement).

Emma and I met up in the city centre and after she had collected her kit, a high vis jacket with an impressive array of pockets for her handheld computer, phone, radio, printer, torch and water bottle we headed off in the van for Exwick Heights School. There are ongoing problems at drop off and pick up times with some people parking in ways that are both inconsiderate, blocking residents drives and in some cases illegal, on the double yellow lines and over the crossing point. This has recently featured in the Express & Echo and the Headteacher is worried.

Most parents dropping off took care to park in sensible and safe places but despite our presence and the that of the two staff outside to help children cross the road safely there was some dangerous parking. Emma issued one Penalty Notice on a car parked on clearly marked double yellow lines and left for nearly ten minutes. She also chatted to a number of drivers and explained what she was doing and gave advice on alternative safe places for people to leave their cars.

We also looked at the top of Higher Exwick Hill and I shall be investigating if putting additional double yellow lines on the junction might deter those people who are not respecting dropped kerbs and the driveways of the houses there.

Many people thanked Emma for coming to check on the situation as did the Senior Teacher on duty and we all agreed that if everyone took a little more care and perhaps left for school a wee bit earlier there wouldn’t be such a last minutes rush.

 

The consultations with local residents through local newsletters, the Echo, and a well attended public meeting at the Village Inn on ways to tackle parking and access problems in this part of Exwick have gone well, and at times generated a very lively debate ! Working with neighbourhood highway officers we are jointly logging all the responses, and analysing the results, before taking the matter to the next

Exeter Highways Committee on the 24th November. At the moment the agreed proposal is to secure a single yellow line along Exwick Villas , with no parking 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday, and along Exwick Road , on the opposite side, from the junction with New Valley Road and Fairhazel Drive, a single yellow line with restricted parking, e.g. no return within two hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday. If you have not yet submitted a view please use the contact details below.