4.2.1 Strategic Objective 1: Support the development of sites within the town centre and on the seafront for complementary uses that meet year-round demand from visitors and residents.
Rationale:
Intensifying the use of existing sites is a key opportunity for Exmouth to enhance character and enable economic growth. Underutilised sites within the town centre and along the seafront have the potential to be developed for tourism or other enterprise to meet local need.
Stimulating new development is a key enabler of other objectives, creating the potential for realising other placemaking opportunities. To complement the seasonal nature of tourism, a focus is needed on more year-round opportunities. Creating spaces that can support this will enable Exmouth to develop a more robust economy with more stable employment and revenue for businesses. It will also create spaces where local entrepreneurs can try out new businesses, which will in turn foster local business networks.
Aims:
To maximise the use of land by reimagining spaces to enable a variety of activities and uses.
To diversify Exmouth’s economy from seasonal tourism to a year-round active place with complementary recreational, leisure, and cultural offers.
To support the emerging entrepreneurial network through collaboration.
To create new employment and business opportunities.
Actions
1.1 Make the most of existing town centre and seafront assets in public ownership encouraging investment to support diversification of the existing offer.
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Review the use of existing public car parks to determine whether there are any opportunities to rationalise provision without reducing capacity to create new development sites.
Transform Beach Gardens car park into a public space for temporary activities and cultural programming as part of a wider redesign of the Beach Gardens / Queens Drive Space public realm.
Identify and support the provision of affordable business accommodation opportunities to increase occupancy rates in the town centre.
Strategic Objective 1: Support the development of sites in the town centre and on the seafront for complementary uses that meet year-round demand from visitors and residents.
