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Seabrook Orchards Exeter Topsham

26/0130/NMANon-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 January 2026

Council decision: Permitted

Proposal

Non-material amendment to reserved matters approval 23/1237/RES (Reserved Matters Application (Pursuant to the Outline Planning Permission Ref. 11/1291/OUT) for the approval of the layout, scale, appearance of buildings, means of access to buildings and landscaping for Phase 3 (188 homes including affordable housing and associated infrastructure) and Seabrook Square (13 affordable apartments, a flexible community building, parking and landscape and play area)) to carry out the following amendments by superseding the approved drawings under condition 1: - House types swapped throughout the phase, with parking arrangements updated and Wyatt and McArthur house types introduced. - Adelaide building has been swapped (previously Symons 541-544) - Minor amendment to alignment of north and west roads. - Boundaries of plots 602-608 now extended because of updated survey work and ecological surveys. - Porch amendments to McArthur Type B, Adelaide Type C, Dawlish Type C, Wollaton Type B, Adelaide Type C, Dawlish Type C, Wollaton Type B/Type C, Hillcott Type C.

Received
27 January 2026
Ward
Topsham
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated27 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Feb
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 2 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Seabrook Orchards Exeter Topsham. Exeter has handled 180 applications of this type. This one was decided in 2 days, 7 weeks quicker than Exeter's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 99 applications across Topsham.

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

Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 January 2026
Target decision date
24 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14651318
Comments
0
Documents
65

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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

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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