3. Evidence base documents (EVB)
The Exeter Plan is informed by a library of specialist studies and reports. All evidence base documents included with the submission of the Exeter Plan are available below. Note that additional post-submission evidence base documents are available in the Examination documents section.
Spatial Strategy
- EVB-S-01a: Liveable Exeter Prospectus
- EVB-S-01b: 2023 Liveable Exeter Principles Document
- EVB-S-02: Water Lane Principles Document
- EVB-S-03: Liveable Water Lane Supplementary Planning Document
- EVB-S-04: Liveable Water Lane SPD Transport and Mobility Technical Note
- EVB-S-05: Water Lane Primary School Options Appraisal
- EVB-S-06: Haven Road Position Statement
- EVB-S-07: Water Lane Views Analysis
Climate Change
- EVB-CC-01: Net Zero Exeter 2030 Plan
- EVB-CC-02: Exeter’s greenhouse gas reporting 2022
- EVB-CC-03: Exeter City Council’s Costed Organisational Carbon Footprint Projections to 2030
- EVB-CC-04: A Non-Technical Overview of Energy and Carbon Standards for New Buildings
- EVB-CC-05: Exeter’s potential for wind and solar energy
- EVB-CC-06: Heat network evidence to support emerging Exeter Plan policy CC3
- EVB-CC-07: Exeter Heat Network Zoning - Zone opportunity report
- EVB-CC-08: Future development standards report
- EVB-CC-09: Delivering Policy CC6 - Embodied carbon
- EVB-CC-10: Policy CC6 - Embodied Carbon - Delivery Checklist
- EVB-CC-11: Delivering Policy CC7 - Development that is adaptive and resilient
- EVB-CC-12: Evidence for Increased Water Efficiency
- EVB-CC-13a: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA)
- EVB-CC-13b: Level 2 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA)
- EVB-CC-13c: Level 2 SFRA Detailed Site Summary - Water Lane
- EVB-CC-13d: Level 2 SFRA Detailed Site Summary - East Gate
- EVB-CC-13e: Level 2 SFRA Detailed Site Summary - Red Cow
- EVB-CC-13f: Level 2 SFRA Detailed Site Summary - Exe Bridges Retail Park
- EVB-CC-13g: Level 2 SFRA Detailed Site Summary - Marsh Barton
- EVB-CC-13h: SFRA 2 addendum covering Hamlin Lane
- EVB-CC-14a: Water Lane emergency access and egress route plan
- EVB-CC-14b: Red Cow emergency access and egress route plan
- EVB-CC-14c: Exe Bridges emergency access and egress route plan
Homes
- EVB-H-01a: 2024 Exeter Local Housing Needs Assessment
- EVB-H-01b: 2022 Exeter Local Housing Needs Assessment
- EVB-H-01c: 2024 Greater Exeter LHNA: Jobs and Workers Balance Assessment
- EVB-H-01d: 2024 Greater Exeter Student Housing Needs Assessment
- EVB-H-01e: 2024 Exeter Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment
- EVB-H-02a: 2025 Exeter HELAA: Fourth Edition
- EVB-H-02b: 2024 Exeter HELAA: Third Edition
- EVB-H-02c: 2023 Exeter HELAA: Second Edition
- EVB-H-02d: 2022 Exeter HELAA: First Edition
- EVB-H-02e: HELAA Methodology
- EVB-H-02f: HELAA Panel Terms of Reference
- EVB-H-03: Exeter Plan Housing Trajectory
- EVB-H-04a: 2025 (September) Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement
- EVB-H-04b: 2025 (May) Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement
- EVB-H-04c: 2024 Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement
- EVB-H-05: Start to Finish: How quickly do large-scale housing sites deliver? Third Edition
- EVB-H-06: Exeter Plan Delivery Schedule
- EVB-H-07: East Gate Delivery Study
- EVB-H-08: Exeter Density Study
- EVB-H-09: Strategic Brownfield Sites Study
- EVB-H-10a: Urban Capacity Study Part 1 Exeter Report
- EVB-H-10b: Urban Capacity Study Part 1 - Appendix 2
- EVB-H-10c: Urban Capacity Study Part 1 - Methodology Report
- EVB-H-10d: Exeter Urban Capacity Study Phase 2
- EVB-H-11: Exeter Walkable Neighbourhoods Interactive Webpage - Exeter City Council Walkable Neighbourhoods interactive map
- EVB-H-12: Exeter housing market insights report
- EVB-H-13: Exeter Council Housing Strategy 2023-2027
- EVB-H-14: PG2.1: Delivering a sufficient supply of custom and self-build homes
- EVB-H-15: Devon County Council Extra care housing - Refresh of the commissioning strategy for extra care housing (2009), August 2015
- EVB-H-16: Proposed Reforms to the NPPF and Other Changes to the Planning System
- EVB-H-17: Exeter Brownfield Land Register
- EVB-H-18: Housing Delivery Test Measurement Rulebook
- EVB-H-19: Raising accessibility standards for new homes: summary of consultation responses and government response
- EVB-H-20: Hansard vol. 835: Housing Accessibility Standards
- EVB-H-21: Technical Housing Standards - Nationally Described Space Standards
- EVB-H-22: Residential Design Supplementary Planning Document
- EVB-H-23: Planning Update March 2015
- EVB-H-24: Brownfield Developments in Exeter
- EVB-H-25: Marmalade Lane Co-housing Development, Arch Daily article
- EVB-H-26: Bicester Apartments, Graven Hill article
- EVB-H-27: Goldcrest Self Build Portal article
- EVB-H-28: City Point Update Report to Council December 2024
Economy and Jobs
- EVB-EJ-01: Business Space in Strategic Allocation Areas
- EVB-EJ-02: Devon Work Hubs and Coworking Spaces
- EVB-EJ-03a: Economic Development Needs Assessment (EDNA) Final Report
- EVB-EJ-03b: Economic Development Needs Assessment (EDNA) Market overview
- EVB-EJ-04: Exeter Employment Study
- EVB-EJ-05: Employment change in Exeter
- Superseded by EXM-02b
- EVB-EJ-06: Employment supply in Greater Exeter
- EVB-EJ-07: Office vacancy evidence
Retail and the future of our centres
Sustainable transport and communications
- EVB-STC-01: Devon and Torbay Local Transport Plan 4, 2025-2040
- EVB-STC-02: Devon Bus Service Improvement Plan
- EVB-STC-03: Exeter Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan
- EVB-STC-04: The Exeter Transport Strategy 2020-2030
- EVB-STC-05: Greater Exeter Strategic Modelling Report: Devon County Council
- EVB-STC-06: Greater Exeter Modelling update: Forecasting report
- EVB-STC-07: Exeter only model update report
- EVB-STC-08a: 2025 Exeter Transport Strategy - Transport Empirical Data Report
- EVB-STC-08b: 2019 Exeter Transport Strategy - Transport Empirical Data Report
- EVB-STC-09: 2017 Travel Demand 2040 - Forecasting future travel trends
- EVB-STC-10: 2017 Observed Trip Rates From New and Existing Developments In and Around Exeter
- EVB-STC-11: 2016 Future of Transport Scenario Planning Workshops
- EVB-STC-12a: Greater Exeter Further Modelling Technical Note: Main Report
- EVB-STC-12b: Greater Exeter Further Modelling Technical Note: Appendix A
- EVB-STC-12c: Greater Exeter Further Modelling Technical Note: Appendix B
- EVB-STC-12d: Greater Exeter Further Modelling Technical Note: Appendix C
- EVB-STC-12e: Greater Exeter Further Modelling Technical Note: Appendix D
- EVB-STC-13a: Greater Exeter Model Update: Exeter only - Oct 2023
- EVB-STC-13b: Greater Exeter Model Update: Exeter only - Dec 2024
- EVB-STC-14: Greater Exeter Modelling Results
- EVB-STC-15: Greater Exeter Trip Distribution Checks
- EVB-STC-16a: Greater Exeter Transport Study: Scenario 2 Stage 1 assessment update - Technical note
- EVB-STC-16b: Future transport improvements - Potential. Multi-criteria analysis
- EVB-STC-17: Greater Exeter Transport Study: Mitigation modelling scenario 2 technical note
- EVB-STC-18: Clyst Road and Newcourt Road Transportation Access Strategy
Natural Environment
- EVB-NE-01a: Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (Figures reinstated)
- EVB-NE-01b: Landscape Sensitivity Assessment - Assessments 1
- EVB-NE-01c: Landscape Sensitivity Assessment - Assessments 2
- EVB-NE-01d: Landscape Sensitivity Assessment - Assessments 3
- EVB-NE-01e: Landscape Sensitivity Assessment - Assessments 4
- EVB-NE-02: Landscape Setting Areas - Valued Landscape Assessment
- EVB-NE-03_Evidence to support NE2 Valley Parks - FINAL
- EVB-NE-04_Joint Habitats Sites Mitigation Strategy
- EVB-NE-05: Recognising and capturing the Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) potential of the Valley Parks
- EVB-NE-06: Valuing Exeter’s Urban Forest
- EVB-NE-07: Urban Greening Factor
- EVB-NE-08: Biodiversity Linkages Map
- EVB-NE-09a: GI Study Executive Summary
- EVB-NE-09b: GI Study Chapter 1-5
- EVB-NE-09c: GI Study Chapter 6-9
- EVB-NE-09d: GI Study Appendix 1-10
- EVB-NE-09e: Green Infrastructure Strategy Phase II
History and Heritage
- EVB-HH-01: Heritage Impact Assessment of potential development sites
- EVB-HH-02: Exeter skyline study: Identifying views and assessment methodology
- EVB-HH-03: Exeter Plan strategic allocations: Views, heights and capacity – applied methodology
- EVB-HH-04: SUPERSEDED - Views, density and heights study - Stage 1 - Skyline and views report
- EVB-HH-05: SUPERSEDED - Views, density and heights study - Stage 2 - Sites report
Culture and Tourism
- EVB-C-01: Exeter – A Place-based Cultural Strategy
- EVB-C-02: Connected Culture – Brochure
- EVB-C-03: Connected Culture – Cultural Placemaking Study
Infrastructure and Facilities
- EVB-IF-01a: Local plan viability assessment
- EVB-IF-01b: Local plan viability assessment addendum
- EVB-IF-02a: 2025 Infrastructure delivery plan
- EVB-IF-02b: 2024 Infrastructure delivery plan
- EVB-IF-02c: 2023 Infrastructure delivery plan
- EVB-IF-03: Exeter Playing Pitch Strategy
- EVB-IF-04: FPM Assessment of swimming pool provision for Exeter City Council
- EVB-IF-05: FPM Assessment of sports hall provision for Exeter City Council
- EVB-IF-06: Sport England Playing Fields Policy and Guidance
- EVB-IF-07: Exeter Plan Housing and School Places
- EVB-IF-08: DCC education evidence base
- EVB-IF-09: Devon County Council Education Infrastructure Plan
- Superseded by EXM-02i
- EVB-IF-10: Devon County Council Education Approach for Developer Contributions 2021
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