Connected Culture is a strategy to embed culture as one of the 7 key principles and delivery strategies with the city’s Liveable Exeter regeneration plan - an ambitious and long-term renewal of the city’s fabric to meet people’s need for homes, jobs and services in the 21st century. By 2040, the Liveable Exeter initiative will deliver over 12,000 new homes over eight strategic brownfield development sites and is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the city to accommodate change and attract the investment needed for Exeter’s communities to prosper.

Transformational housing delivery goes hand in hand with a collaborative effort across public and private sectors to build a modern, ambitious, forward-thinking, and innovative city.

‘Connected Culture’ is embedding culture as a catalyst to connect communities to Exeter’s unique nature, heritage, literacy, and learning to enable current and future generations to live better.

Futurecity worked with Exeter City Council and key stakeholders across the city to set the vision, principles, and delivery strategies for Connected Culture as an embedded principle with Liveable Exeter. The principles call on all those involved in regeneration and developments projects to embed culture within future plans, as cultural infrastructure, creative public realm and culturally driven community engagement and participation in a solutions driven approach to cultural growth across the city.

It leverages four main pillars of Exeter’s cultural USP: climate and environmental science, history and heritage, arts & literature, and learning and innovation. Focussing on these four pillars enables groundbreaking partnership with the city’s key cultural and creative organisations and businesses to amplify the city’s cultural identity and inward investment opportunities.

Connected Culture can be delivered through the physical opportunities leveraged through the Liveable Exeter development pipeline, and the policy enshrined the new Local Plan.