Josh Widdicombe has joined a residents' campaign to stop a council building houses on a plot of land in Exeter.
The comedian, 42, has lent his support to protests against the development proposed for the site at Devon County Council's headquarters in the city.
The Last Leg star, who lives locally, was pictured alongside locals and members of the Green Party protesting the plans before a council cabinet meeting on the matter on Wednesday.
Widdicombe, who grew up in nearby village Haytor Vale, quit London, alongside his producer wife Rose Hanson, 42, for a return to his Devon roots in January.
The couple moved into a £2.95million five-bed home on one of Exeter's most upmarket streets, with seven-year-old daughter Pearl and four-year-old son Cassius.
They traded in their £2.3million London townhouse last summer for more space and to be closer to his childhood home, as revealed by the Daily Mail.
A decision on selling off the site on the County Hall's grounds to developers has now been postponed, following the deluge of complaints from locals, the BBC reports.
The council executive voted unanimously to come back to the issue when new plans have been drawn up to ensure the site is not developed for the open market.
Specifically, it said it wants to see more measures put in place to ensure works would create affordable housing and homes for key workers and care leavers.
They asked local authority officers to write a report on how to ensure these homes would be incorporated in any development.
Liberal Democrat council leader Julian Brazil said there is a consensus in the cabinet that guaranteeing this kind of housing is paramount.
He said he wanted to pursue whether any legal or contractual agreements could be put in place as to the type of properties built on the land.
The matter will come back before the council executive on a date yet to be confirmed.
Any plans for the council land would need to be put to the planning authority, at Exeter City Council, before changes to the use of the land are confirmed.
The fate of the Matford Offices site, which was once home to council buildings, has long been a matter of controversy locally.
It is now largely a grassy area, aside from some remaining concrete areas - and residents have raised a variety of concerns about losing the green space.
The council has previously said the site is surplus to requirements, in a report prepared for its cabinet in 2023.
But nature campaigners have said they are worried about trees being cut down and the closure of walking routes to make way for the development.
In fact, there is an existing approved planning application which states the land should be grassed over, now the offices have been demolished, according to Torbay Weekly.
One protester said they are not against the project - but similarly have 'environmental concerns', as well as fears about whether the council is using its finances correctly.
Another local said: 'If they are happy to build on green spaces, then they are happy to build anywhere.'
Someone else added: 'You don't need to keep building because up and down the land, the councils are screwing over residents and rushing these through.'
Another commented: 'Are they saying we don't mind the land being built on but we would rather it's not social housing? Is there some nimbyism going on here?'
Devon County Council has been contacted for comment.
Widdicombe's participation in the protests comes after his relocation to his new 7,500 sq ft, Grade II-listed family home in the Devon city.
It boasts five en-suite bedrooms, as well as a separate one-bedroom coachhouse in the grounds.
Images of the inside of the house show an enormous living room with a grand piano, high ceilings and a log fire.
The family can also enjoy two other sitting rooms, two offices, a 35ft dining room and a large kitchen and breakfast room heated by an Aga.
The house also boasts two offices, a gym and a wine cellar.
And it was formerly occupied by another TV star, in the form of Noel Edmonds, who bought the property for £1.36million in October 2006.
The Deal or No Deal host, 77, splashed his cash from the hit game show on the move after divorcing his second wife Helen Soby.
He carried out extensive renovations but became embroiled in a bitter court battle after he was sued by a former friend who he had not paid for the building work.
In court, Edmonds claimed Ulrik Lawson, who ran a building firm, had agreed to manage the refurbishment for 'no fee'.
Mr Lawson denied work was carried out on 'that basis' - saying he was a 'construction professional' and 'could not afford to work in such a way'.
Edmonds sold the house in August 2008 for more than £2million.
But after the 2011 court ruling against him, he was ordered to pay his former friend £600,000 plus legal fees.
Widdicombe has previously discussed his new house and its former owner - best known for hosting Noel's House Party in the nineties from Edmonds' mansion in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom alongside Mr Blobby, a pink and yellow spotted character.
Speaking on the Parenting Hell podcast, Widdicombe told fellow comic and co-host Rob Beckett: 'Just to be clear, it isn't in Crinkley Bottom - it isn't the house we used to see on Saturday nights on the TV.'
And Beckett teased him with a crude retort that he had moved to a house 'that Noel Edmonds has had sex in... and he's wd in there'.
The Exeter home is three times the size of the couple's five-storey terraced house in Victoria Park, east London.
The couple fully renovated their former property in the capital after buying it for £1.9million in 2017.
They also own a £1million holiday home in Mullion, Cornwall, which they have lovingly restored and now rent out to holidaymakers.