TEIGNBRIDGE Council has received a 'flood of representation' about the contentious omission site register.
The register is a wish-list of more than 80 sites suggested for development by developers and landowners.
Tony Page, head of policy and heritage at Teignbridge Council, said: 'There has been an extremely high response. Six thousand individual representations have been made about the sites.'
The proposed residential development at Headway Cross, Teignmouth, features in the three least popular suggestions.
More than 200 individual letters of opposition have been received about the possibility of housing on considerably more than six hectares of land at Coombe Valley.
Responses to alternative uses of Exminster sites Milbury Farm, Matford Park Farm and Sentry's Farm have tallied at around 270.
Mr Page said: 'The overwhelming majority have been in opposition to the development of the sites.
'I thought that representation would be in four figures but my view is that it has attracted considerably more opposition than expected.'
Residential development at New Road, Inverteign school, Oak Hill and Buddleford farm is proposed for Teignmouth.
In Dawlish, residential development at Gatehouse Farm and Gatehouse Hill (0.23 ha), Secmaton lane (0.63ha), Dawn Lea and the Oaks (0.43ha) feature in the register along with residential development at Shutterton Lane (14.38ha) and Peppermint Park (0.93ha) in Dawlish Warren.
Responses from the public are in the hands of council officials following the extended eight-week consultation exercise.
Mr Page said: 'We are currently in the process of analysing responses, by the end of the month there will be data from all the information that has been supplied.
'We have to look at all the reasons in order to give our members the full views of the public.'
l The most unpopular proposal is for residential development on a 3.81 hectare area near St Michael's Road, Newton Abbot.