1. John Harvey
City Centre Manager
@ExeterBizClub
‘Exeter City Centre – Challenges & Opportunities’

2.  Last decade – period of major change, renewal &
investment – record of investment second to none
within the regional context
 Excellent record of investment/low vacancy rates
– no basis for complacency going forward
 A City Centre Vision for a Green Capital - & City
Centre Strategy
 Key next steps – Guildhall Shopping Centre, Bus
Station site
Strategic Context

3.  Critical to maintain change, renewal & investment
across the City Centre
 Changing City Centre demands
 Growing importance of the evening economy
 The most significant squeeze on public finances
in decades
 Re-gearing of the relationship between business
and public authorities
Strategic Context

4.  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
Key Aims

5.  First impressions
 What sort of City Centre do we want?
 The independent sector… Uniqueness… Unique
Quarters…
 A developing picture…
 Moving on from a focus on the daytime and retail
economy
 A challenging landscape… Positioning to meet
the challenges of e-commerce & mobile
technology…Economic pressures…
Key Issues…

6. High Street

7. Ambulatory/Higher Market

8. Ambulatory/Higher Market
Public Realm
‘Poundland’/‘Sports Soccer’ Unit

9. Public Realm
‘Poundland’/‘Sports Soccer’ Unit

10.  Further cementing Café Society
 A vibrant evening and late-night economy –
attracting the broadest cross-section of the
population
 Help Zone
 Using and strengthening existing partnerships –
such as EBAC
 Taxis & transport
Focus on the evening &
Night-time economy…

11.  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
Observations…

12.  Exeter Alcohol, Violence & Night Time Economy
Group (EAVNTE)
 H2O Project
 Community Alcohol Partnership
 Taxi Marshall Scheme
 CCTV – link in to Police Control at Middlemoor
Successes to date…

13. John Harvey Contacts:
Twitter – www.twitter.com/exeterccm
Mobile – 07885 760 496
e-mail – john.harvey@exeter.gov.uk