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Martin Redfern
Exeter City Council approved Exeter College plans to erect floodlights and a three metre fence around a new artificial pitch at Flowerpot Fields at a council planning committee meeting on 20 February despite widespread objections to its original plans.
Its revised plans addressed some, but not all, of the issues raised.
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