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In this edition: Plus... Roman Discovery Page 3 - Wildflower delight Page 4 - Loans for homeowners See page 10 Page 5 - Riverside update Autumn 2017 Autumn Excitement builds for new festival

Many of the city’s creative young people will be The Smart Choice! encouraged to pursue their Your LOCAL timber & future careers at a series of builders merchants. seminars and workshops with All your building & landscaping needs from leading industry experts. the “Smart Man” The festival showcases Throughout Lost Weekend SMART FOR what is new, innovative and ickets are selling fast for an artists will perform, play and DECKING, FENCING challenging, and seeks to expand create work in interesting and AND LANDSCAPING Texciting, new festival of music, boundaries of practice and share little-known city locations. ideas with new audiences. art, ideas and technology. Tech will be celebrated and For more information go to Lost Weekend comes to Brotherz Grimm, Muncie Girls, explored at a host of workshops lostweekend.co.uk and check from 6 to 8 October in Mis En Scene, Neurotic Fiction, and hands-on events across the social media. venues across the city. Ziggy Splynt, Billy Bobby & city. A collaboration between The Wry Smiles, Eliza & the “A Smart the City Council, Met Office Bear, Solarference, Souera man uses Informatics Lab, TEDxExeter, and Gravity Drive. TV and Smart Build” Kaleider, Exeter Phoenix and radio presenter Bob Harris is Exeter Cavern, Lost Weekend hosting a special edition of one celebrates Exeter as a home to of his Under The Apple Tree world-leading technologists and sessions on 6 October at Exeter scientists. Cathedral. Headlining will be The festival will promote Exeter’s own Wildwood Kin, and celebrate the city’s playing their biggest hometown thriving cultural scene and its concert to date. Visit our Exeter Depot to see our complete range importance in supporting the TEDxExeter will host a of luxury decking, fencing and landscaping materials "PUBLIC WELCOME AND ADVIC economy. Technology Salon at the IS ALWAYS FREE" BBC Radio 6 Music DJs Craig Barnfield Theatre. Kaleider’s Offering delivery throughout Exeter and East . Charles and Don Letts (pictured playable art programme will Whatever your project big or small…. top right) will host the opening develop a series of indoor and Smart Build Supplies does it all. Marsh Green Road East, party. outdoor digital art installations/ Build Smart with Marsh Barton, Exeter, Among the bands taking events, supporting high quality Devon, EX2 8PQ. Smart Build T: 01392 274 110 part are Dutch Uncles, Denzel work from both local, national www.smartbuildsupplies.co.uk Himself, Zion Train, QELD, and international artists. Exeter band Wildwood Kin play on 6 October Where to catch a bus while the new bus station is built – centre pages Customer Service Centre

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Councillors’ phone numbers & email addresses

Party Ward Councillor Telephone Email address L Alphington BOB FOALE 410567 [email protected] G Alphington CHRIS MUSGRAVE 660389 [email protected] L Alphington STEVE WARWICK 07954 549771 [email protected] LD Duryard & St James KEVIN MITCHELL 420646 [email protected] L Duryard & St James KEITH OWEN 413075 [email protected] C Duryard & St James PERCY PROWSE 209024 L Exwick PHILIP BIALYK 07976 362159 [email protected] L Exwick OLLIE PEARSON 07725 554385 [email protected] L Exwick RACHEL SUTTON 275886 [email protected] L Heavitree ROSIE DENHAM 204850 [email protected] L Heavitree OLWEN FOGGIN 660430 [email protected] Exeter’s Independent Steel Stockist L Heavitree GREG SHELDON 667948 [email protected] L Mincinglake & Whipton STEPHEN BRIMBLE 07712 506885 [email protected] L Mincinglake & Whipton EMMA MORSE 07564 109503 [email protected] L Mincinglake & Whipton PETER EDWARDS 465114 [email protected] Staircases STEEL SUPPLIES L Newtown & St. Leonard’s RICHARD BRANSTON 210815 [email protected] Balustrades UNIQUEUNIQUEWe can guide you from design stage through to Handrails installation. Unique can supply you with a range L Newtown & St. Leonard’s ROGER SPACKMAN 252753 [email protected] Gates/Fencing of products and solutions from a single L Newtown & St. Leonard's NATALIE VIZARD 07843 282371 [email protected] Fabrication beam to a bespoke staircase and Stocked Steel Sections L Pennsylvania DANIEL GOTTSCHALK 07738 664995 [email protected] Design Service much much more C Pennsylvania PETER HOLLAND 437419 [email protected] FREE Delivery L Pennsylvania RACHEL LYONS 253649 [email protected] L DAVID HARVEY 464253 [email protected] C Pinhoe CYNTHIA THOMPSON 468135 [email protected] L Pinhoe DUNCAN WOOD 580005 [email protected] L Priory KATE HANNAN 07767 407072 [email protected] L Priory LESLEY ROBSON 221369 [email protected] L Priory TONY WARDLE 431377 [email protected] L St. David's LEWIS KEEN 07986 172359 [email protected] L St. David's ROBERT LAMB 07500 929710 [email protected] L St David’s LUKE SILLS 07944 478592 [email protected] L St. Loyes ROSE ASHWOOD 07581 451523 [email protected] C St. Loyes DAVID HENSON 446956 [email protected] C St. Loyes YOLONDA HENSON 446956 [email protected] L St. Thomas HEATHER MORRIS 661608 cllr.heather [email protected] L St. Thomas ROB HANNAFORD 206421 [email protected] L St. Thomas HANNAH PACKHAM 07904 011693 [email protected] C Topsham MARGARET BALDWIN 874028 [email protected] C Topsham ANDREW LEADBETTER 876322 [email protected] C Topsham ROB NEWBY 676471 [email protected]

Council Leader & Portfolio Holders Leader: Pete Edwards Lead Councillor for Health and Wellbeing, Communities & 14 Marsh Green Road North, Marsh Barton Trading Lead Councillor for Support Services: Cllr Ollie Pearson Sport: Cllr Phil Bialyk Estate, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8NY. 01392 248492 Lead Councillor for People: Cllr Emma Morse Lead Councillor for Economy & Culture: Cllr Rachel Sutton Lead Councillor for Housing Revenue Account: Champion for Young People: Cllr Luke Sills Cllr Hannah Packham Champion for Art & Culture: Cllr Greg Sheldon Lead Councillor for Place: Cllr Stephen Brimble Champion for Communities & Food Recycling: 59,433 Lead Councillor for City Transformation, Energy & Transport: Cllr Duncan Wood Homes & Businesses in EX1-4 Cllr Rosie Denham Champion for Section 106 Agreements: Cllr David Harvey Simply call Ian Stewart to find out more about advertising in this newspaper. Lead Councillor for City Development: 07974 021846 Cllr Daniel Gottschalk

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og fouling and littering is to be Dbrought under the spotlight in Exeter The City Council is to ramp up “People are fed up with a small which can cause long-term effects “Having a more pronounced The Council is looking at an its enforcement of dog fouling and minority of dog owners that don’t such as toxicaris, which can lead to focus on the enforcement of dog initial campaign of education and littering across Exeter as part of a pick up. The majority of people in blindness.” fouling and littering would allow us awareness before any enforcement 12-month pilot project. Offenders Exeter pick up after their pets but Since June 2014 a small team to tackle these anti-social problems is carried out, knowing that will be issued with fixed penalty the actions of a small percentage of five officers has been providing head on and make a significant changing people’s habits is the fines. of people have a dramatic effect on enforcement for the Council. difference to the quality of life in ultimate aim. Cllr Stephen Brimble, Lead the lives of everyone else,” he said. However their responsibilities Exeter,” said Cllr Brimble. Councillor for Place, said that dog “To be confronted by dog are wide and also cover things such fouling was one of the biggest mess walked into a pavement, on as the collection of stray dogs, issues brought to the attention of a verge or playing field is not only parking enforcement and the councillors in the city. unpleasant but also a health hazard removal of tents from Council land. omeowners in Exeter can Htake the headache out of Only costly repairs by taking out a * home improvement loan. STAY SAFE! The loans are subsidised There are a range of £5per bag by the City Council through repayment options and GET IT SHREDDED! not-for-profit lender Wessex loan terms to fit individual Resolutions CIC. circumstances, with no early At Paperchain your confidentiality is our speciality. Loans can be for funding repayment charges. A dedicated We offer a full destruction service from collection to replacement boilers, installation and friendly advisor can visit certification & everything in between. You can even of central heating, window homes, with no obligation watch your paper being destroyed if you drop it off replacement, roof and thatch and homeowners can choose www.paperchain.org.uk repairs, electrical and plumbing their own contractor. Typical Call now to make an appointment work, structural work, damp 4.2% APR. For more details 01392 490255 remedy work or energy call Wessex Resolutions efficiency improvements, to on 01823 461099, email Marsh Barton name just a few. [email protected] or visit Exeter www.wrcic.org.uk *Price is for delivery to us and includes VAT

Visit our website at exeter.gov.uk or call 01392 277888 RIVERSIDE WORK ONGOING Five Page ork is going on behind the scenes to get the Wswimming pool and other parts of the fire-damaged Riverside Leisure Centre back up and running again.

As the Citizen went to press, the Cllr Phil Bialyk, Lead Councillor “We can’t allow people back in extent of damage to the building for Sport and Health and Well there – we wouldn’t be allowed to was still being assessed. Being, said a report was being let people back in there - until we The task of assessing the drawn up for Scrutiny Committee in know it is completely safe.” damage to the roof caused by the September. Given the nature of all the roof fire earlier in the year has been He said: “It is frustrating for structure and the effect of heat complex and time consuming, and everyone - but we have got to do on metal, it is necessary to carry the operator cannot reopen the this the right way. It doesn’t look out integrity testing of the heat pool and health suite until it is safe like much damage was done from affected areas. and appropriate to do so. the outside, but we need to have a Cllr Bialyk added that everything A report following a full proper assessment of the roof. was being done to get the fire- structural assessment of the roof The non-fire damaged parts of damaged parts of the Riverside has been carried out and will the facility were quickly reopened by repaired and back open again. determine the extent and likely the operator following a thorough Check the City Council’s Facebook timescale of the works required to clean up. But the pools and health and Twitter sites for updates. repair the structure. suite have remained closed.

Images (above and top right) from inside the Riverside show the damage caused by the fire. The Riverside pool before the fire.

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At the time of going to press the date of the Bus Station closure was yet to be revealed and will be released on social media, the press and on the City Council’s website: Artist’s impression of the new Exeter Bus Station that will open in the winter of 2019, exeter.gov.uk/busstation at the same time as the state-of-the-art St Sidwell’s Point leisure centre. Information correct at time of print. More details can be obtained at exeter.gov.uk/busstation or by calling the City Council on 01392 265880 Central Station 26 27

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Artist’s impression of the new Exeter Bus Station that will open in the winter of 2019, at the same time as the state-of-the-art St Sidwell’s Point leisure centre. More details can be obtained at exeter.gov.uk/busstation or by calling the City Council on 01392 265880 Page Eight Page Community Central hits target with NEWS emergency Cyber-related fundraiser fraud oung people are falling foul of scams Ywhich target them through their social media accounts, The Devon, Somerset and Trading Standards Service has warned.

Internet-savvy 18-24 year-olds Scams come in all shapes don’t consider themselves as the and sizes, from the rogue trader group most likely to be duped - charging for badly repaired and that is increasingly making driveways, to potentially life them more vulnerable. threatening products bought Many young people have on-line and identity theft. been conned into providing There were 1.9 million cyber- personal data or into responding related fraud incidents last year, to modelling and talent scams accounting for 16 per cent of all via pop-ups on their social media crime (National Audit Office). accounts. In addition, older people are Action Fraud reported that more likely to be duped by phone in 2015 there was a 64 per cent and mail scams and more likely to mergency resuscitation equipment is now in place at one of annual increase on the number of be a reoccurring victim. EExeter’s busiest parks thanks to the fundraising efforts of a youth people approached by fraudsters Citizens Advice research on Instagram. also shows that over half of football club. In response, Trading young people are unlikely to Central FC raised enough at a special ceremony attended by player who collapsed with heart Standards has been combating report scams. If you know of a money to be able to put a young footballers from the club, failure while playing football the online menace with social scam or are being scammed call defibrillator in at King George V along with representatives from against Spurs in 2012. In that media posts of their own, giving the Citizens Advice consumer Playing Fields in Topsham Road. Devon Football Association and instance quick medical care and young people the knowledge helpline on: 03454040506 The equipment, which has easy South Western Ambulance NHS the use of a defibrillator saved him. and skills to recognise and report Buy With Confidence: https:// to follow instructions can emit Foundation Trust. With so many local people using scams. www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk/ an electric shock to revive people Nigel said they regularly have this community resource it made Citizen’s Advice, the Chartered suffering from a heart attack. The more than 500 children and sense for us to guard against the Trading Standards Institute and machine only operates when it adults playing football at the worst possible outcome and try to Devon, Somerset and Torbay senses that the person is suffering park, alongside hundreds more fundraise for a defibrillator.” Trading Standards Service have a specific arrhythmia – an irregular watching, walking or exercising The defibrillator at King joined forces to highlight the heart beat associated with sudden their dogs. George’s Playing Fields can be dangers of scams to people of all heart failure. “Many people will remember found in an unlocked cabinet at the ages. Central FC club chairman Nigel the high-profile case of Fabrice main entrance to its sports pavilion, Parker unveiled the defibrillator Muamba – the Bolton Wanderers next to the main car park.

also have underlying social “I meet clients daily and it with hope!” Another said: “The help problems that can be helped by is wonderful to be able to help and support I have received over WELL CONNECTED engaging with local organisations. people on their various journeys. the last few months has exceeded It’s all about the right connections in Exeter. The problem is that often people This can be anything from breaking my expectations. As a result of this A new project is connecting based projects. are not aware of what is available social isolation to help with job I now feel much less isolated than people with their community and The project is being delivered on their doorstep, or how it opportunities or supporting I was feeling when I was referred.” at the same time, helping to cut by Wellbeing Exeter, a partnership may benefit their happiness and the clients to get registered for down on doctor’s surgery waiting of public, voluntary and community wellbeing. council housing. Other common lists. sector organisations, such as the The service is currently available areas clients want support with is Community Connectors is NHS, City Council and charitable via eleven Exeter surgeries but is alcohol abuse and healthy lifestyle a means of Social Prescribing – organisations based in the city. expected to be rolled out to more consultation.” empowering people to improve Referrals come from a GP. It’s a over the next 12 months. One person who benefited their health and wellbeing by fact that 20-30% of patients visiting Anette is one of the Community from the programme said: “I came connecting with local community a doctor with medical concerns, Connectors. She told the Citizen: in for pain killers and I am leaving

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The entire cost of the project a polling station, well loved by all is £330,000, £200,000 of which residents. comes from a grant from Viridor, “We’re hoping to local fundraising and other funding sympathetically enhance the facility streams. for not only our current users but “All of the groups that use for future generations to come.” the hall will benefit from the new Alphington Community modernised facilities,” said Kath Association was able to apply for a Sidgwick, Secretary of the ACA. Grass Roots Grant because of a new “and we will be able to entice more housing development impacting on groups to hire the hall. the comnmunity. “Most Alphington residents To find out more about Grass have attended an event, class, Roots Grants go to http:// community café or privately hired exetercommunityforum.net/ the hall, indeed many will have grass-roots-grants/ voted there because it is also

ACA committee members look at the new hall taking shape. t’s perhaps a little-known fact that developments like the new IKEA Istore are having a profound effect on communities in Exeter. It’s difficult to deny the grant to transform their tired and is well on schedule and the new popularity of the store, which is in-need-of-attention village hall. building to be completed by the set to open next year near Sandy Developers now have to pay end of October. Park. However it’s the benefits a Community Infrastructure Levy Kitchen and toilet facilities were to communities being delivered (CIL) to the City Council. Funds are previously inadequate for the hall by a recently established levy on administered by Exeter Community and works will see the main hall developers that are making a real Forum and awarded to community connected to a drama studio on a difference at street level. groups in the city. different level and a new internet Just ask Alphington Community In Alphington that translates café created. The new facility will Association (ACA) who are making into a great, new, modern facility better serve a village which is good use of a £30,000 grass roots for all the community to use. Work rapidly expanding and changing. Art on The Exe wo artists are creating opportunities Tfor people to explore, reflect on and shape the future of Exeter’s green spaces as part of an overall plan to improve the Riverside Valley Park

Environmental artist Anne- celebrate Marie Culhane is working with the new route at a local people to create a 4 km special event, ‘Rootstock’. community orchard and foraging In collaboration with artist route of fruit and nut trees along Amy Shelton, Anne-Marie has the between Exwick also created ‘Orchard Box’, a Mill and the Double Locks. In magical store of artefacts and the winter, the community will memorabilia connected with be invited to plant a tree and fruit orchards and bees.

Anne-Marie will be leading will be held at the Boat Shed on several runs in the Riverside the Piazza Terracina on Friday Valley Park as a way of reflecting 10 November, with guests on our relationships to trees and including author of ‘Taming their contribution to the global the Flood’ Jeremy Purseglove climate. The 3.5km run will start and photographer Matilda from the Malt House at 6pm Temperley. on 13 September. For more details of Landscape artist Tania events go to facebook.com/ Kovats’ project EXE will explore ExeterValleyParks the history of flooding. Tania’s Art on the Exe is curated by findings will be shared in a Ginkgo Projects and managed free newspaper delivered to by Simon Bates, Green residents adjoining the river. Infrastructure Project Manager A special associated event at the Exeter and ‘Conversations Between Floods’ Growth Point.

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Roman discovery rchaeologists have unearthed Roman A remains in the heart of the city centre One of the largest The excavations have also Finds from the site have archaeological excavations since uncovered remains of 17th to19th included Roman coins, including Princesshay has been carried out in century houses and buildings that one of the Emperor Nero. He was Mary Arches Street, in advance of a stood on the site until the 1940s emperor while the legion was new student development. blitz and post war redevelopment, present, and during the revolt by AC Archaeology carried out the including walls, wells and Boudicca, and is famous of course dig on behalf of the developer. The garderobes (toilets). for fiddling while Rome burned. work had to be carried out as part The walls have mostly been There is also a coin of the of a planning condition to record removed, to reveal remains later Emperor Constantine, who the remains and finds before of a large Roman town house founded the modern Istanbul, as destruction by the development. underneath, dating back to the well as personal items, and fine The site is just inside the walled 2nd to 4th centuries. Although pottery imported from Europe at Roman and medieval city, behind chopped up by the concrete the time, and later on in the 17th the city wall, which runs the other foundations of the former to 18th century. RAMM will decide side of Bartholomew Street, and Quintana Gate buildings, its which of these finds it wishes to is within the corner of the earlier outline could still be seen, take, with the agreement of the Roman legionary fortress. including remains of a hypocaust developer as the current owner. As one of four to five major (underfloor heating system) where fortresses in the country in the it had slumped into an earlier pit or decades after the Roman invasion, well underneath. it would have housed the 2nd The main defensive ditch of the Augusta legion. Comprising earlier fortress, including remains around 6,000 men, it would have of a lookout tower has also been been occupied for about 20 years excavated, along with a street and from about AD 55 to 75. The remains of timber built Roman bathhouse under the green in military buildings behind it. front of the Cathedral is the most well-known part of it.

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Autumn Eleven Page What’s On Enjoy stunning displays and fabulous at the Corn exhibitions at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

(RAMM), Exeter City Council’s QUALITY ASSURED VISITOR world-class museum. AT TRACTION Exchange BP Portrait Award 2017 4 Oct to 3 Dec here’s a packed programme of events £5 / £3 / under 19s free Selected from 2,580 entries by at the Corn Exchange this Autumn. artists from 87 countries around T the world, BP Portrait Award Between 1 September and the 31 2017 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. December the City Council - run venue With parents, poseurs, figurative is hosting 142 performances or private nudes, famous faces, expressive bookings. sketches and photo realism, Among the artists performing will be the variety and vitality of the exhibition continue to make it an comedians Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus, Rich unmissable highlight of the annual

Hall and Simon Amstell, with music events Fenton Madeline art calendar.

© including shows by Ralph McTell, the Phil Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery Supported by BP Beer Band, Kate Rusby and Jason Donovan. Cecilia Comedy and concerts are only part of the story though, with the venue also staging Exeter’s Fine Art events such as a vintage fair, a ballet, Collection: Modern a magician and a white collar martial arts 12 Sep to 29 Apr tournament. This diverse selection features two Each week also sees the venue host two works by the British abstract artist or three participation dance events, ranging Brian Rice which are shown for from jive to social/ballroom dancing. The the first time, having been gifted to RAMM by the Art Fund. venue also finds space to accommodate Other works from Barbara Open University examinations, blood Hepworth, Leighton Hall Woolatt donor sessions and a number of business and Patrick Heron. conferences. December is always a special time at the Corn Exchange with Exeter’s Cafe display: A journey in sketches and annual pantomime bringing a little magic to Some Far Off paintings exploring how myth

Copyright Andy Hollingworth and reality can coincide within the venue – and this year it is the classic of all Magic Land Phil Jupitus the same landscape from the pantomimes, Cinderella. by Naomi Hart forests of to the deserts 3 Oct to 7 Jan of Australia.

What do you Showing the passions of local Collect? collectors, see this unusual range of eye baths collected by a retired A Sight for ophthalmic surgeon. Sore Eyes 10 Oct to 7 Jan

A Wild Come dressed in your animal Night In onesies to watch the spectacular Sat 28 Oct filmFlight of the Butterflies, listen 6.30 to 8.30pm to animal tales, get a portrait taken Tickets: £8.50 with green-screen technology and Under 3s free explore RAMM after dark.

Join in the lively Open Tuesday to Sunday, Kate Rusby programme of family 10am to 5pm. To find details about the venue’s full programme, activities, talks and tours Closed Mondays and to buy tickets or to join the mailing list to be the first Admission free. bank holidays. to know when those sure-fire sell-out shows go on sale, visit exetercornexchange.co.uk, Royal Albert Memorial T 01392 265858 email [email protected] Museum & Art Gallery E [email protected] Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RX or call the venue on 01392 665866. flixn& Ralph McTell www.exeter.gov.uk/ramm

Visit our website at exeter.gov.uk or call 01392 277888 Chiefs coach Page Twelve Page honoured for services to sport xeter Chiefs Coach and Director of ERugby, Rob Baxter, is to be given the Freedom of the City

Long-serving Baxter steered He told the Citizen: “It’s a huge the Chiefs to their first ever honour for me but also a fantastic Premiership title in May having indicator of how far we have come previously spent 14 years as as a club and as a team.” a player at the club, 10 of which Baxter joins Club Chairman were as captain. Tony Rowe who was also made a Baxter will be made a Freeman Freeman of the City last year and of the City in October at an award took advantage of the age-old ceremony at Exeter’s historic tradition to drive a flock of sheep, Guildhall. coincidentally from Baxter’s farm, The award recognises his down the High Street. outstanding services to the field of sport which has led to Exeter’s name being known around the world.

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