Overview

The science park will provide services for knowledge intensive firms and will enable the development of new businesses.

The 24 hectare site will offer extensive new facilities encouraging enterprise, science –and research and development related activity. It will offer high quality space for businesses ranging from start-ups to major corporate headquarters. It is envisaged the Park will also feature a new business hotel, conferencing facilities and a central building providing business support and local services as well as offices for the Science Park Management Company.

As well as providing a site for the Science Park, the purchase from current landowners Eagle One also includes land needed for major Junction 29 improvements which will unlock the full potential of the proposed developments in Exeter and East Devon under the New Growth Point initiative.

The New Growth Point initiative was designed by the Government to provide funding and support for local authorities pursuing large scale sustainable growth. Exeter Science Park forms a significant part of the Exeter and East Devon New Growth with clear complementary links to the proposed future developments which include; Skypark, the new Community at Cranbrook, the Intermodal Freight Terminal and expansion of Exeter International Airport.

The Science Park will be a thriving science-based community enjoying strong connections to the Met Office, the University and the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. It will link with the University of Exeter Innovation Centre, which provides start-up units for new knowledge-intensive businesses.

The key to the creation of a high quality and lasting science park is sustainability. The Exeter Science Park proposal aims to deliver a development that not only creates jobs and improves the economy, but which brings benefits to the environment and local communities.

The masterplan ( 14.2mb) represents a broad consensus on the best way to design and implement a science park on the eastern side of Exeter. It reflects the aspirations of the project partners and their desire to create a unique environment for innovation and investment that will strengthen the regional economy and the role Exeter plays in it.

The supplementary planning document ( 4.1mb) for the Science Park develops the proposals set out in the masterplan report.

Aerial image of the masterplan design of the science park