John HarveyCity Centre Manager

#b2b Business Breakfast

City Centre Strategy

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

Context

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

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…

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…

Key Issues…

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

Focus on the evening &Night-time economy…

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…

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…

John Harvey Contacts:

Twitter – www.twitter.com/exeterccm

Mobile – 07885 760 496

e-mail – john.harvey@exeter.gov.uk