Planning inspector overturns Exeter council’s decision on student flats plan
A planning inspector has allowed plans for a new £17m student flats complex in Exeter city centre.
Exeter City Council’s planning committee in September 2019 had turned down a scheme for Walnut Gardens off St David’s Hill and Hele Road, which would have seen the former BBC studio as well as Beech Hill House demolished.
A five storey block of student flats with a 166 bedspaces created, consisting of 138 student bedrooms within cluster flats, 19 self-contained studio flats and nine accessible studios, were included in the plans, as were a gym and a cinema …