Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Exeter City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
240 approved · 38 refused · 11 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Jan 2020 to 14 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 16 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
61 Danes Road Exeter EX4 4LS
Received 17 Jul 2026Exeter Car Supermarket 14 Marsh Barton Road Exeter EX2 8NT
Received 17 Jul 20268 Queens Terrace Exeter EX4 4HR
Received 17 Jul 202633 - 35 Southernhay East Exeter
Received 18 Jul 202633 - 35 Southernhay East Exeter
Received 18 Jul 2026Exeter Tool Shop Thurlow Road Exeter EX4 7AA
Received 18 Jul 20268 The Strand Topsham EX3 0JB
Received 20 Jul 2026Garage Adj 54 Howell Road Exeter EX4 4EY
Received 21 Jul 202680 Waterside Exeter EX2 8GY
Received 21 Jul 20262 Bicton Place Exeter EX1 2PF
Received 21 Jul 20263 Hampton Buildings Blackboy Road Exeter EX4 6SR
Received 22 Jul 20264 Hampton Buildings Blackboy Road Exeter EX4 6SR
Received 22 Jul 2026Magdalen Court School Victoria Park Road Exeter EX2 4NU
Received 22 Jul 2026Augusta Court Market Street Exeter EX1 1DL
Received 22 Jul 2026182 - 184 Fore Street Exeter EX4 3AX
Received 22 Jul 2026Rose Duryard Lower Argyll Road Exeter EX4 4PB
Received 22 Jul 202672 Broadfields Road Exeter EX2 5RQ
Received 23 Jul 2026Land Adjacent To Sidmouth Road/ Nelson Way Exeter
Received 23 Jul 2026109 Cowick Lane Exeter EX2 9HF
Received 23 Jul 20262 Bathern Road Exeter EX2 7QE
Received 23 Jul 20261 Higher Riverdale Exe Street Topsham EX3 0JL
Received 24 Jul 202688 Magdalen Road Exeter EX2 4TU
Received 24 Jul 2026Homedale Health 34 Denmark Road Exeter EX1 1SE
Received 24 Jul 202640 Alphington Road Exeter EX2 8HS
Received 24 Jul 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Exeter City Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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