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240 approved · 38 refused · 11 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Higher Riverdale Exe Street Topsham EX3 0JL
Received 24 Jul 20261 Follis Walk Exeter EX1 3WZ
Received 24 Jul 202610 Magdalen Road Exeter EX2 4SY
Received 24 Jul 2026Communication Station Kinnerton Way Exeter
Received 22 Jul 202622 Sweetbrier Lane Exeter EX1 3AF
Received 25 Jul 202660 Magdalen Road Exeter EX2 4TN
Received 25 Jul 20269 White Street Topsham EX3 0AA
Received 26 Jul 20267 Parkfield Way Topsham EX3 0DP
Received 27 Jul 2026Unit B 134 Fore Street Exeter EX4 3AN
Received 27 Jul 202611 Brook Green Terrace Exeter EX4 6QJ
Received 27 Jul 20264 Stream Court Haven Road Exeter EX2 8DL
Received 28 Jul 202613A And 13B Polsloe Road Exeter EX1 2HL
Received 28 Jul 2026Pinhoe Road Baptist Church Pinhoe Road Exeter EX4 7HZ
Received 28 Jul 2026Land To South Of 5 Tresillian Gardens Topsham EX3 0BA
Received 28 Jul 202625 East John Walk Exeter EX1 2EP
Received 28 Jul 202620 Chancel Lane Exeter EX4 8PY
Received 29 Jul 202672 Silverlands And Land Adjoining Silverlands Chudleigh Road Alphington Exeter EX2 8TZ
Received 29 Jul 2026Land At Petersfield Pinn Hill Pinhoe Exeter
Received 29 Jul 202643 Prospect Park Exeter EX4 6NA
Received 30 Jul 202623 New North Road Exeter EX4 4HF
Received 30 Jul 202621 Matford Avenue Exeter EX2 4PL
Received 30 Jul 2026Lyndhurst Streatham Rise Exeter EX4 4PE
Received 30 Jul 2026Land At Newcourt Road Newcourt Road Topsham
Received 30 Jul 2026Former Walled Garden Adjacent To Reed Mews Mardon Hill Exeter
Received 30 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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