Planning & Place
Stories about Planning & Place
First Exeter “co-living” rooms advertised to let from £1,045-£1,360 per month plus council tax
£40,800 minimum salary to rent 26.5 square metre room in six storey 133-unit block, promoted as two minutes’ walk from university St Luke’s campus, requiring tenants among top 20% of Exeter earners – or with wealthy guarantors.
Plans for eighteen “zero carbon” bungalows on Church Hill field submitted for approval
Low density development proposal on unallocated site above Pinhoe conflicts with local plan policies intended to protect Exeter’s northern hills and landscape setting.
Plans for PBSA in back garden of Pennsylvania Road student HMO submitted for approval
Application for six-bed two-storey block cites neighbouring student block in back garden beside Devonshire Place orchard and play area as precedent.
Pendragon Road development of 100 greenfield homes in Exeter’s northern hills allowed at appeal
City council decision to refuse outline permission overturned by planning inspector citing 50% affordable housing provision and housing supply shortfall.
