2. Spatial Strategy
Exeter has a Vision for 2040 to be a global leader in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges including climate change and urban renewal. Liveable Exeter is an Exeter City Council initiative which will support the Exeter Plan to deliver the Exeter Vision 2040.
Liveable Exeter Principles
The Liveable Exeter document highlights how a transformational housing delivery programme can be the means to bring major investment into the city and renew its infrastructure for the 21st Century with the aim of improving peoples’ lives and wellbeing.
The principles will be used as a tool for planning officers, Members, developers and others discussing and bringing forward proposals for brownfield development within the city. The principles apply at all stages of planning and design from locating development and identifying projects for infrastructure renewal down to the detailed design of individual buildings.
2023 Liveable Exeter Principles Document
Water Lane
Water Lane is a significant opportunity for regeneration and an important site in delivering the type of living, working, learning and leisure environment Exeter needs in the future. It will be a flagship development setting a benchmark for future Liveable Exeter sites.
The Water Lane Principles document and the Liveable Water Lane Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) express Exeter City Council’s aspirations for the redevelopment of the site.
The Water Lane Principles expand on the Liveable Exeter Principles to ensure that the full intent of the wider Liveable Exeter initiative is captured. The Liveable Water Lane SPD builds upon the Water Lane Principles and amplifies adopted planning policies to provide a Vision, Development Framework and Design Code for Water Lane. Together, the documents will help guide the delivery of high quality, co-ordinated redevelopment and placemaking at Water Lane.
Please see the following documents:
Water Lane Principles Document
2024 Liveable Water Lane Supplementary Planning Document
Preparation of the Liveable Water Lane SPD has been informed by the following documents:
Water Lane Primary School Options Appraisal
Liveable Water Lane SPD Transport and Mobility Technical Note
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