Who Does What

Devon County Council is responsible for services across the whole of Devon, e.g. highways construction and maintenance, education, transport, public safety, social care, waste disposal and recycling centres and trading standards.

East Devon District Council covers a smaller area than the County Council and is responsible for services including rubbish collections, recycling, street cleaning, housing, planning applications and Council Tax collections.

The Exeter and East Devon Growth Point is a public/private sector partnership which helps to bring forward and support a major growth programme centred on Exeter and the neighbouring district of East Devon.

Cranbrook Town Council operates at a level below the district and county councils and can help on a number of local issues, like providing allotments, bus shelters, community centres, play areas and play equipment and grants to help local organisations.

Cranbrook Medical Practice is the GP practice for residents of the town. In an emergency always dial 999.

The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital is a large acute and teaching hospital in Exeter based on two sites in Wonford and Heavitree. In an emergency always dial 999.

Devon & Cornwall Police covers the largest geographical police area in England. Contact the Police on 101 to report a crime, for crime prevention and advice or for local policing. In an emergency always dial 999.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service respond to fires but also work to keep communities safe, carry out home safety checks, respond to floods, road traffic collisions, confined space rescues and so on. In an emergency always dial 999.

St Martin’s Church of England Primary and Nursery School was the first school in Cranbrook. It opened its doors in 2012, at the same time as the first residents were moving in.

The Cranbrook Education Campus opened its gates in September 2015 and is an ‘all through’ school with nursery provision as well as primary and secondary departments.

E.ON is responsible for the design and operation of the heat distribution network and Energy Centre, including heat interface units which pipe heat into individual homes and commercial premises in and around Cranbrook.

South West Water
provides drinking water and waste water services throughout Devon and Cornwall and parts of Dorset
and Somerset.

South Western Railway is a train operating company which operates the South Western franchise for passenger services. Locally it operates the Exeter – London Waterloo line to which Cranbrook is connected.

Stagecoach South West runs a bus network covering the whole of Devon and parts of Cornwall and Somerset. Locally, Stagecoach operates bus number 4 from Exeter to Axminster which services Cranbrook.