The area around Exmouth Station

The area outside the Exmouth station entrance has award-winning landscaping and planting which is attractive to visitors and residents alike. However it is let down badly in two specific areas which we seek to see improved. In both cases the land involved is owned by Devon County Council and they are responsible for them.

Idea 1: The Stagecoach office

The office leased to Stagecoach who occupy the building next to the station has been allowed to deteriorate badly and is in need of repair and redecoration. We would like to see Devon County Council requested to attend to this. They may wish to consider re-purposing some of the office as Stagecoach initially used it when they employed a considerable number of staff at the bus depot.

The Stagecoach office

Idea 2: Overgrown triangular area

The triangular area adjacent to Marks and Spencer and the pathway to the leisure centre is overgrown with untended and unattractive shrubs and is partially bordered on two sides with a fence in poor condition with broken gates. This attracts rubbish including used needles which are thrown into the area. Its only purpose is to cover the concrete access covers to the subway pump which are level with the adjacent pathway. Removal of the shrubs and fencing and the resurfacing of the triangular area to blend in with the pathway would 

a) make the route from the station concourse to the leisure centre and onwards far more obvious 

b) open up the view of the pleasant grassed area between M&S and the swimming pool 

c) make maintenance of the subway pump much easier and more pleasant for DCC’s engineers. We would like Devon County Council attend to this.

The overgrown triangular area

Action

If you are keen to see an effort to make these happen happen and, particularly, to see if this system is capable of producing a significant response then please go to our Facebook page (at https://www.facebook.com/exmouth.matters) and add your comments - you do not need to join anything to do this but please take part. Add your voice to OUR VOICE and increase its volume!

A sufficiently large response to these relatively simple proposals will make it worthwhile for the area, which could ultimately deliver the aspirations put forward during the so-called consultations but which were not really considered.