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Date set for work to finally get going to rebuild fire-ravaged jewel in city's crown
Express and Echo
|November 13, 2025
WORK is set to start in earnest on a £17 million redevelopment of Exeter's Royal Clarence Hotel early in the new year, the developer has revealed.
Work is due to start to rebuild the Royal Clarence Hotel as flats in January 2026
(Guy Henderson)
City-based company Nooko has been working to prepare the site since collecting the keys from previous owner Akkeron in April.
Permission was granted in October 2022 for 25 high-quality apartments on the site, most with views across the green to the cathedral. Prices will be up to £1m.
There will also be some commercial units including ‘high end’ food and drink outlets.
The historic hotel was gutted by a fire in October 2016. More than 1,000 firefighters used 800,000 litres of water to fight the blaze, and some of the burnt timbers left over will be kept as a “visible, poignant connection” between old and new as part of the development.
This story is from the November 13, 2025 edition of Express and Echo.
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