Valley Parks & Green Spaces

Stories about Valley Parks & Green Spaces

High Court rally

Dartmoor landowner seeks Supreme Court ruling to prevent wild camping

Alexander and Diana Darwell, owners of 4,000 acre Blachford Estate, aim to overturn appeal court ruling restoring access rights championed by Dartmoor National Park Authority and campaign group Open Spaces Society.

Site of demolished changing rooms at Flowerpot Fields

Exeter College seeks to replace planned Flowerpot Fields sports pavilion with dedicated teaching facility

Revisions to consented scheme that includes fencing, floodlighting and replacement of publicly-accessible playing fields with artificial turf no longer reinstate demolished changing rooms or provide equipment storage or pitch viewing facilities.

City council seeks comments on Flowerpot Playing Fields disposal

Exeter City Council is inviting public comments on its plans to dispose of 4.64 acres of Exwick and Flowerpot Playing Fields, in two parcels via leasehold, to Exeter College.

Grace Road Fields in morning mist

Council to sell part of Grace Road Fields for heating plant and annexe rest for Water Lane redevelopment

New Exeter Local Plan “strategic mixed use” housing policy allocation to supersede planned campsite and outdoor event space, woodland planting and new canal basin at fifteen acre ex-playing field in Riverside Valley Park.

Plans for Ludwell Valley Park house conversion submitted

Another application to convert outbuildings and a garage to a three-bedroom house at Fernleigh Nurseries in the heart of Ludwell Valley Park has been submitted to the city council despite similar previous applications being twice rejected and dismissed at appeal.

Ludwell Valley Park golf driving range approved

Exeter City Council planning committee has approved an application by Exeter Golf and Country Club to use 17 acres of privately-owned land that is part of Ludwell Valley Park as a golf driving range.

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