1. John Harvey
City Centre Manager
Exeter City Centre Late Night Safety
Workshop
‘Scene Setting’
9 July 2013

2.  What’s happening? …perception and reality
 The night-time economy within the context of a
changing city centre
 Successes to date…
 Agenda for action…
@ Twitter #ExAtNight WiFi
Four elements to what I’ve to say…

3. What’s happening? …perception and reality
Crime Statistics (1)…
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4. What’s happening? …perception and reality
Crime Statistics (2)…

5.  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…

6.  City Centre Strategy
 Retail focus of change to date…
 Step-change delivered through Princesshay scheme
– need to replicate changes in behaviour across the
City Centre
 Bus Station redevelopment – mixed use scheme,
complementing the existing City Centre offer
…& then Guildhall Centre & West Quarter change?
 City Centre as a ‘shop window’
The night-time economy within the context of a
changing City Centre

7.  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…

8.  City Centre Strategy
 Further cementing Café Society
 A vibrant evening and late-night economy –
attracting the broadest cross-section of the
population
 Taxis & transport
 Safe Zone
 Using and strengthening existing partnerships –
such as EBAC
Agenda for action…

9. John Harvey Contacts:
e-mail – john.harvey@exeter.gov.uk
Mobile – 07885 760 496
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/exeterccm
Slideshare – http://www.slideshare.net/exeterccm

10. John Harvey Contacts:
e-mail – john.harvey@exeter.gov.uk
Mobile – 07885 760 496
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/exeterccm
Slideshare – http://www.slideshare.net/exeterccm