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Cornwall Council Planning Applications

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1,773Applications (90 days)
63Major applications
96%Approval rate
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PA26/06014Infrastructure

Land South Of Crane Park Boundervean Lane Penponds Cornwall TR14 0QL

A statutory consultation made under section 8(3) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WIA91) to grant Independent Water Networks a variation to its appointment as a water and sewerage company. To also vary

Pending
PA26/05983Residential

41 Grenville Close Nanpean St Austell Cornwall PL26 7DL

To revoke the S.106 agreement dated 07/10/2009 and replace with a new deed to amend the affordable tenure from unmortgagable Shared Equity to Discount Market Sale.

Pending
PA26/05997Infrastructure

1 Thanckes Close Torpoint Cornwall PL11 2RA

The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and restrictions) Regulations 2003 (as amended) Regulation 5 Notice of Intention to Install Fixed Line Broadband Apparatus

Closed - advice given
PA26/05984Agricultural

Trecorner Farm Altarnun Launceston Cornwall PL15 7RR

Prior notification of agricultural or forestry development for: Improvement of yard surface through concreting will mitigate risk of sediment running into adjacent water courses aiding clean and dirty

Pending
PA26/05991Agricultural

Land West Of Colts Bungalow Portlooe West Looe Cornwall PL13 2HY

Prior notification of agricultural or forestry developmenr for general agricultural store building

Pending
PA26/05995Agricultural

Trelissick Sithney Helston Cornwall TR13 0RL

Applicaation to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed General Purpose Agricultural Building.

Pending
PA26/05977Agricultural

Home Farm Home Farm Lane Tehidy Camborne Cornwall TR14 0JD

Prior notification of agricultural or forestry development for an agricultural storage building for feed, straw, hay, crops, farm machinery and implements.

Pending
PA26/05917Other

Ropers Walk Farm Rope Walk Mount Hawke Truro Cornwall TR4 8DW

Application for use of The Byre and The Cornstore not in compliance with conditions 4, 10 and 11 of C1/PA25/1506/05B and change of use of land adjacent to residential gardens

Pending
PA26/05959Infrastructure

Street Record Perranarworthal Cornwall

Proposed to undertake work that is considered to be exempted from the Electricity Act 1989 by falling within the Overhead Lines (Exemption) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

Closed - advice given
PA26/05105Residential£500k–1m

The Bike Chain 82 Mount Ambrose Redruth Cornwall TR15 1QR

Proposed conversion and extension of existing class E buildings to 4no. residential dwellings

Pending
PA26/05853Residential£500k–1m

Land At Trevarth View Lanner Moor Lanner TR16 6JF

Full Planning Application for the Construction of Two Dwellings

Pending
PA26/00978/PREAPPOther

Unclaimed Land Directly Opposite Trebor Brooke Next To Treneere Road In Front Of 4 And 5 Barton Close Heamoor Cornwall

Exception notice for the section dismantle of two mature trees, one sycamore and one ash due to overall poor condition

Pending
PA26/05582Householder£50k–100k

13 Old Tannery Lane Grampound Truro Cornwall TR2 4PZ

Proposed conversion of detached garage into short-term holiday-let accommodation

Pending
PA26/05473Householder£50k–100k

Heathfield Cottage St Ive Liskeard Cornwall PL14 3NG

Listed building consent for replacement of fibre cement slate roof coverings with natural slate and associated works

Pending
PA26/05910Householder

Drylands Carpalla Road Foxhole St Austell Cornwall PL26 7TY

Non material amendment in relation to decision notice PA20/10984 dated 30/03/2021 to allow amended balcony layout and rear elevation to plot 1 (now known as 2 Trelowen Chy, Carpalla Road, Foxhole)

Pending

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Planning appeals in Cornwall Council

When Cornwall Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.

Cornwall Council, raw rate

28.9%

of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand

Expected for this mix of appeals

28.4%

what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload

0.5 percentage points above expected. Cornwall Council's decisions are overturned more often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.

2,347 appeals counted, 2,149 judged either way (621 allowed, 1,528 dismissed), 198 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.

By kind of appeal

Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.

Cornwall Council appeal outcomes by appeal type, with the national rate for each type
Appeal typeCasesJudgedAllowedThis councilNational
Planning Appeal1,7311,72653030.7%28.8%
Enforcement Notice2211701710%13.5%
Householder (HAS)1381364230.9%35.6%
Lawful Development Certificate52511325.5%36.9%
Common Land4800None judgedNot published
Rights Of Way - Schedule 14D4700None judgedNot published
Rights of Way Opposed Orders2600None judgedNot published
Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal2321523.8%25%
Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal1313215.4%25.2%
Tree Preservation Order87342.9%20.6%
Section 106 Agreement77342.9%39.8%
Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)66116.7%33.3%
Environmental600None judgedNot published
Rights of Way Modifications644Too few judged100%
High Hedges530Too few judged28.5%
Rights Of Way - Schedule 14A400None judgedNot published
Section 106BC (Affordable Housing)441Too few judged71.4%
Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice110Too few judged8.1%
Marine and Coastal Access100None judgedNot published

“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.

Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.

Money behind development in Cornwall Council

Developer contributions at Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.

Affordable housing grant in Cornwall Council

Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.

82
Confirmed schemes
699
Homes
£58,385,805
Grant requested
  • Social rent400 homes
  • Affordable rent16 homes
  • Shared ownership283 homes

Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.

About Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.

SiteLens tracks the Cornwall Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.

You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Cornwall Council planning portal.

Cornwall Council approval rates by application type

Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.

  • householder96% (249 decided)
  • other98% (138 decided)
  • residential96% (72 decided)
  • agricultural96% (23 decided)

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