The High Court has dismissed a judicial review claim brought by Sandy Park Farm Partnership against a planning inspectorate decision to allow planning permission for 350 homes on the site of the former St Bridget’s Nursery in Newcourt.
The inspectorate allowed an appeal last January against Exeter City Council’s failure to determine an application to develop the site within the statutory time limit which had been submitted by Waddeton Park Limited in October 2023.
A similar application for the site, approved by the city council planning committee in March 2023, had been quashed by the High Court in 2024 in an earlier case also brought by Sandy Park Farm Partnership, a property and farming business based in Old Rydon Lane with an interest in land to the north-east of the former plant nursery and garden centre.
