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25 Blackall Road Exeter EX4 4HE

25/0073/LEDLawfulness of Existing Use/DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 March 2025

Council decision: Was lawful useDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

House in multiple occupation for 6 persons (Use Class C4) (Certificate of lawfulness of existing use)

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Duryard And St James
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 25 Blackall Road Exeter EX4 4HE. Exeter has handled 180 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Exeter's typical decision time. The site is in the Longbrook conservation area. 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.

84% of amendment 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 4HE
Application type
Lawfulness of Existing Use/Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
19 February 2025
Last date for comments
16 March 2025
Target decision date
16 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13708701
Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Longbrook
  • Article 4 direction: 2023 Article 4 Direction
  • Brownfield land register: 68-72 Howell Road, Exeter, EX4 4LZRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (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.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

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