Planning & Place
University plans to demolish 30 buildings to construct 50,000m2 of new student accommodation
Permission sought for 1,250 new bedrooms on fifteen acre Streatham campus Clydesdale and Birks development site, half as large again as 1,200 bedroom East Park development.
Renewed permission sought for Longbrook Street student block
Developers are seeking to renew previously-granted planning permission for an eight storey 108-bed student accommodation block on the site of the King Billy public house.
First Liveable Exeter homes are substandard “warehousing for people” which is student accommodation “in all but name”
Harlequins shopping centre redevelopment approved by Exeter City Council includes 251 co-living units in seven storey tower block despite widespread opposition from conservation charities and community campaigners who have since appealed to the Secretary of State to call in the decision.
Exeter’s first “zero carbon” housing development includes 96 car parking spaces for 40 homes
Exeter City Council has approved plans to develop land at Pinhoe with a parking ratio of 2.4 cars per household as part of an ‘exemplar scheme for future residential development in the city’ while accepting that zero carbon construction comes “at a cost to the provision of affordable housing”.
