School Playing Field Homefield Road Exeter, EX1 2RB
Refused on 15 July 2026
Council decision: Refuse Planning PermissionPlanning committee
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Proposal
Erection of three-storey building for retirement living apartments with associated communal lounge, internal refuse and recycling store, electric buggy/bike store and house managers office. Creation of enlarged vehicular access onto Homefield Road, car parking, electrical sub station, internal paths, landscaped grounds and creation of a permissive path. (Amended Plans).
- Received
- 1 August 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 144
- Council
- Exeter City Council
- Ward
- Heavitree
- Agent
- The Planning Bureau Ltd
- ReceivedReceived1 Aug
- ValidatedValidated1 Aug
- Consult.Consultation7 Sep
- TargetTarget Date1 Nov
- DecidedDecided15 Jul
Decided in 348 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at School Playing Field Homefield Road Exeter, EX1 2RB. Exeter has handled 1,462 applications of this type. This one was decided in 348 days, 43 weeks longer than Exeter's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Heavitree. We hold 829 applications in total for the EX1 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
- EX1 2RB
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Large
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 November 2025
- Committee meeting
- 6 July 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- The Planning Bureau Ltd
- Agent address
- No1 Southern House Embankment Way Ringwood BH24 1EU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 92 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 14 August 2025
- Site notice start
- 13 August 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14209462
- Documents
- 133
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Heavitree
- Brownfield land register: 47 Homefield Road, Exeter, EX1 2QRRegister 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 (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.
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