Exeter traffic flow changes 'to encourage walking'

A detailed new plan for the Newtown area is to be debated

Changes to the way traffic moves around Exeter are being proposed as local councillors hope to encourage more walking, cycling and wheeling.

A detailed new plan for the Newtown area is to be debated on 15 July by the city's Highways and Traffic Orders Committee, made up of city and county councillors.

A report to the committee said the proposed Newtown Community Transformation Project was a collaboration between Exeter City Council's Live and Move project and Devon County Council.

Members of the committee are being recommended to endorse spending almost £500,000 on a package of measures, with funding to come as a grant via Sport England, it said.

The plans would include banning traffic from part of Russell Street; introducing contraflow cycling along Clifton Hill and stopping parking in parts of Belmont Road, Clifton Hill, Clifton Street, Heavitree Road, Clifton Road and Russell Street. 

Pay and display meters would also appear in parts of Russell Street.

The project also aimed to make green spaces more useable, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.