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Holiday Cottages, Merlin Farm Mawgan Porth Newquay TR8 4DN Cornwall

C2/08/00905Cert Lawful Use/Development - existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 August 2008

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness application for use of land as amenity space for the existing 5 holiday cottages.

Received
11 June 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
St Columb
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated11 Jun
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target6 Aug
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Holiday Cottages, Merlin Farm Mawgan Porth Newquay TR8 4DN Cornwall. Cornwall has handled 3,840 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,475 applications in total for the TR8 postcode area.

93% of amendment applications at Cornwall Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TR8 4DN
Application type
Cert Lawful Use/Development - existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mawgan-in-Pydar
District
E2/66

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 June 2008
Consultation expiry
9 July 2008
Consultation start
18 June 2008
Consultation end
9 July 2008
Neighbour consultation start
18 June 2008
Target decision date
6 August 2008
Application expires
9 July 2008
Permission expires
5 August 2013

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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