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Elmbrook House New North Road Exeter EX4 4LA

16/0215/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 28 June 2016

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from Residential Institution (11 bed HMO) to HMO (8 bed) and 54 sq.m. of A2 (Financial & Professional Services) floor space at ground floor level

Received
18 February 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St James
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated13 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Jul
  4. Target8 Aug
  5. Decided28 Jun

Decided in 15 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Elmbrook House New North Road Exeter EX4 4LA. Exeter has handled 1,462 applications of this type. This one was decided in 131 days, 12 weeks longer than Exeter's typical decision time. The site is in the St David's conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,347 applications in total for the EX4 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Exeter City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX4 4LA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
District
16/0213/05

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 June 2016
Neighbour consultation start
13 June 2016
Last date for comments
5 July 2016
Target decision date
8 August 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Highfield
Agent address
28 Highfield Clyst Road Topsham

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: St. David's
  • Article 4 direction: 2023 Article 4 Direction
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2016
    18 Feb

    Erection of 1 no. display cabinet advertisement.

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside16/0213/ADV
  2. 2016
    18 Feb

    Change of use from Residential Institution (11 bed HMO) to HMO (8 bed) and 54 sq.m. of A2 (Financial &…

    This applicationApprovedFull16/0215/FUL

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