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Exeter: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Exeter City Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, South West; within the county of DEV. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Devon County Council. ONS code E07000041.

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Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Exeter for 2026–27: £191.31 of a £2,495.36 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 0 opened, 1 closed (1 closure)

St Wilfrid's School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 8 July 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Exeter reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Exeter: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	−£7.2 million
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	none budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)	£8.7 million
Cultural and related services	£8.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£9.2 million
Planning and development services	−£2.8 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£5.8 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£22.0 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Exeter in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 138,399 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 35 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £21,949 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £572 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 21.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.1% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £282,696 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 8.7 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Greenhouse gas emissions: 3.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 90.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 259.4 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 4,725 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

39 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 18, Green Party (E&W) 10, Liberal Democrats 5, Reform UK 3, Independent / Other 2, Conservative and Unionist 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 39 councillors, by ward

Lucy Findlay (Labour Party) — Alphington
Rob Harding (Labour Party) — Alphington
Yvonne Atkinson (Labour Party) — Alphington
Kevin Mitchell (Liberal Democrats) — Duryard and St James
Michael Mitchell (Liberal Democrats) — Duryard and St James
Tammy Palmer (Liberal Democrats) — Duryard and St James
Paul Knott (Labour Party) — Exwick
Philip Bialyk (Labour Party) — Exwick
Susannah Patrick (Labour Party) — Exwick
Helen Terry (Green Party (E&W)) — Heavitree
Lucy Haigh (Independent / Other) — Heavitree
Stella Smith (Green Party (E&W)) — Heavitree
Liz Pole (Labour Party) — Mincinglake and Whipton
Ruth Williams (Labour Party) — Mincinglake and Whipton
Tony Payne (Reform UK) — Mincinglake and Whipton
Andy Ketchin (Green Party (E&W)) — Newtown and St Leonard's
Bernadette Chelvanayagam (Green Party (E&W)) — Newtown and St Leonard's
Lynn Wetenhall (Green Party (E&W)) — Newtown and St Leonard's
Gill Baker (Green Party (E&W)) — Pennsylvania
Martyn Snow (Labour Party) — Pennsylvania
Zoë Hughes (Independent / Other) — Pennsylvania
Duncan Wood (Labour Party) — Pinhoe
Jakir Hussain (Labour Party) — Pinhoe
Mollie Miller-Boam (Labour Party) — Pinhoe
Jane Begley (Labour Party) — Priory
Nick Williams (Reform UK) — Priory
Tony Wardle (Labour Party) — Priory
Brian Rappert (Green Party (E&W)) — St David's
Diana Moore (Green Party (E&W)) — St David's
James Banyard (Green Party (E&W)) — St David's
Alison Sheridan (Reform UK) — St Loyes
Anne Jobson (Conservative and Unionist) — St Loyes
Paul Richards (Liberal Democrats) — St Loyes
Adrian Fullam (Liberal Democrats) — St Thomas
Deborah Darling (Labour Party) — St Thomas
Jack Reed (Green Party (E&W)) — St Thomas
Gemma Rolstone (Labour Party) — Topsham
James Cookson (Labour Party) — Topsham
Matthew Williams (Labour Party) — Topsham

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.