District councillor
Cllr Roy Collins
Councillor for Honiton St. Michael's (Liberal Party)
Liberal Party councillor for Honiton St. Michael's on East Devon District Council (council records list a term from 2023). Spoke at the Strategic Planning Committee as a non-member.
Where they stand
✗Against EXMO20Non-committee councillor who said at SPC on 30 September 2025 that EXMO20 'could be saved' by raising numbers on other Exmouth sites and on 14 July 2026 that building on its farmland would be 'really criminal'.
We've heard EXMO20 this morning. That could be saved quite easily by increasing the numbers in other sites in Exmo. You wouldn't need that.Strategic Planning Committee, 30 September 2025 · 00:19:11 ▶ · meeting page · Says EXMO20 is not needed if other Exmouth sites take more homes.
I thought it would be really criminal to build on this good farmlandStrategic Planning Committee, 14 July 2026 · 01:25:51 ▶ · meeting page · Opposes building on EXMO20's farmland.
Everything they said about EXMO20 at the meetings
8 passages from the council recordings, in date order. Each time stamp plays the recording at that moment.
Strategic Planning Committee, 19 May 2025 (1)
I feel that the public have not been given the opportunity to comment on these plans in person, you've not had any exhibitions in any towns or public meetings … You had quite a lot of meetings that you cancelled, which that denied the public the chance.02:26:45 ▶ · H. Heritage and other (51)
Strategic Planning Committee, 2 September 2025 – morning session (3)
I would like to know if there have been any public exhibitions of these plans in Exmo, so the public can look at them in a hall and ask officers questions.01:18:46 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
I feel it's very important, this application, because of the wildlife and the pebble heaths and everything. It's a very sensitive site. There's a lot of European interest in it.01:34:00 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
I do travel down that road sometimes when I go to Exmouth and it's certainly not suitable for any increase in traffic01:34:30 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 30 September 2025 (1)
We've heard EXMO20 this morning. That could be saved quite easily by increasing the numbers in other sites in Exmo. You wouldn't need that.00:19:11 ▶ · 4. Councillors admitting EXMO20 should not have been allocated, or that allocating it was a mistake (30)
Strategic Planning Committee, 5 May 2026 (1)
because the public have not had a chance to have proper consultation that been considered because you're saying now that regulation 19 the comments won't be used to alter the plan in any way.00:52:11 ▶ · 3. The second consultation – anything that could be classed as predeterminative (104)
Strategic Planning Committee, 14 July 2026 (2)
EXMO20, I went to Exmo last Saturday, and the town was absolutely full of people. People were everywhere. and I did take the trouble to drive along the road to Budleigh-Solterton and look at EXMO20 and I thought it would be really criminal to build on this good farmland01:25:19 ▶ · 4. Councillors admitting EXMO20 should not have been allocated, or that allocating it was a mistake (30)
and I did take the trouble to drive along the road to Budleigh-Solterton and look at EXMO20 and I thought it would be really criminal to build on this good farmland01:25:51 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
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