Having flown from Exeter for over 40 years I can with some certainty say it is a great GA airfield to fly from, decent runways good ATC and Nav Aids, it is an airfield that certainly deserves a good quality GA training establishment but equally it needs a flying club style setup to ensure that post PPL people have somewhere that encourages GA flying and is not solely concerned with punters paying for CPL/IR courses and then disappearing off to the airlines
The Robin flying group is a very well established group with some very tidy DR400's and if they were to get CAA approval to run training then it would certainly be a good way to fill the void that will be left if/when ASW bites the dust. There are some great instructors around at EGTE and on would hope that the get snapped up by whoever does fill the void.
Dunkeswell is a very friendly GA airfield and indeed I flew in there yesterday for lunch, it's only downside are ease to get to by car and lack of radio aids, with a FISO rather than full ATC. Being so high up on the hill the weather can also stop play at times when Exeter is still operational for GA. Very nice people at Dunkeswell and that counts for a heck of a lot.
Fingers crossed that something emerges from the shambles and that GA at Exeter ends up stronger and better than at present.