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Cowley Road Substation Birks Grange New North Road Exeter Devon EX4 4PQ

22/1473/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 14 December 2022

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Alterations and extension to substation.

Received
19 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Duryard And St James
  1. Received19 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Dec
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided14 Dec

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Cowley Road Substation Birks Grange New North Road Exeter Devon EX4 4PQ. Exeter has handled 1,462 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Exeter's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Duryard And St James. We hold 1,348 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 4PQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2022
Consultation expiry
17 November 2022
Neighbour consultation start
17 November 2022
Last date for comments
11 December 2022
Target decision date
27 December 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 November 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11611778
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, conservation areas, 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.

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© 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.

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