Welcome

Welcome to our website which aims to provide you with information on McCarthy Stone’s proposals to redevelop land at the Buckerell Lodge Hotel, Topsham Road, Exeter with Retirement Living accommodation.

As you may be aware, the Buckerell Lodge Hotel went into administration last year, following a period of difficulty in 2019 and the subsequent impact of the pandemic. McCarthy Stone has since acquired an interest in the site, and is now in the process of formulating proposals for it’s redevelopment with high-quality Retirement Living apartments, landscaped gardens and on-site car parking.

November 2022 Update

As you may be aware, McCarthy Stone submitted an application for the above site’s redevelopment in July 2021 for specialist Retirement Living accommodation comprising 65 apartments together with communal facilities, extensive landscaping and associated car parking.

These proposals were however refused by Exeter City Council Officers in January 2022, and McCarthy Stone subsequently resubmitted an amended scheme in May 2022, that sought to address the previous reasons for refusal.

McCarthy Stone has now made a number of amendments to the resubmitted application, that has further sought to respond to additional comments, primarily in relation to the building’s design.

The amended plans now proposed to redevelop the site with 62 self-contained Retirement living units, as well as communal facilities in the form of a homeowners’ lounge, guest suite, and a mobility scooter store, as well as 43 parking spaces.

The amended application seeks to respond to the previous reasons for refusal, as well as feedback received both after the resubmitted application, and from the public consultation held in March 2021.

We remain committed to delivering this much-needed specialist retirement accommodation of this brownfield site. The regeneration of this site offers the opportunity to provide a sensitive redevelopment that will help fulfil a local need for this type of accommodation for older people.

Find out more via our re-submission update newsletter, available here.

Contact us

We welcome your feedback. You can let us know your thoughts via the contact us page.

If you have any other questions or comments at this early stage, you can also contact us via the project’s freephone information line on 0800 298 7040.