Exeter Science Park is close to the Skypark development and also part of the “East Devon Growth Point” as is Skypark. Here is an article on progress of the site about progress so far and how proud they are to have recieved a £1m grant to provide “infrastructure” to the site which seems to mean that it is for faster broadband facilities.
and here is an interesting paragraph in that article:
Exeter Science Park is part of the £2 billion Exeter and East Devon Growth Point development programme, where a number of strategic projects are set to deliver over 20,000 new homes and over 25,000 jobs by 2026.
A date for your 2026 diary perhaps. And where will all the homes be by then? Will any of them have been “affordable”?
Somehow you know when something is a puff job rather than a fact and here the giveaway is that it is not boasting of tenants to come but of having received a £1 million grant.
Which begs the question: how much will a similar connection to Skypark cost – bearing in mind all the work that officers are going to do out of their offices at “touch down” places in the area because residents cannot get to Skypark with any ease (unless they live in Exeter or Cranbrook).
Is this yet another cost that residents will have to bear if no grant is forthcoming?
East Devon Watch 