Great Western Hotel St Davids Station Exeter EX4 4NU
Withdrawn on 24 March 2025
Council decision: Withdrawn by Applicant
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Proposal
Proposed change of use from hotel to mixed use, to provide 15 residential units and ground floor commercial (use class E), removal of external staircase to rear and creation of 3-storey rear extension above ground floor, to provide internal lift-shaft.
- Received
- 24 June 2024
- Public comments
- 14
- Council
- Exeter City Council
- Ward
- St Davids
- Agent
- Grayscale Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived24 Jun
- ValidatedValidated12 Jul
- Consult.Consultation17 Feb
- TargetTarget Date12 Oct
- DecidedDecided24 Mar
Decided in 255 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a rear extension at Great Western Hotel St Davids Station Exeter EX4 4NU. Exeter has handled 1,462 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 273 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the St David's conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across St Davids. 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 4NU
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 15
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 5 September 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 September 2024
- Last date for comments
- 17 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 October 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Grayscale Architecture Ltd
- Architect profile
- GRAYSCALE ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
- Agent address
- 20 Southernhay West Exeter EX1 1PR United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 92 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 5 September 2024
- Site notice start
- 2 September 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11688673
- Documents
- 70
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: St. David's
- Article 4 direction: 2023 Article 4 Direction
- Brownfield land register: Red Cow, ExeterRegister site at or near this address
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
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 and heritage coasts.
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2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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