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Brannel School Rectory Road St. Stephen St. Austell PL26 7RN Cornwall

C2/09/01080Full - Major applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 November 2009

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of new 750 pupil secondary school on the existing site of Brannel School. The school will also house an Area Resource Base to accommodate an additional 15 pupils. A small area of the existing school will be retained and refurbished/extended to create new sports changing facilities including teaching area, fitness suite and external storage. The remaining school will then be demolished and re-landscaped.The existing sports hall will be retained along with the existing tennis courts. A new floodlit artifical pitch will also be provided on the site.

Received
10 August 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
10
Ward
St Stephen
  1. Received10 Aug
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Oct
  4. Target11 Nov
  5. Decided11 Nov

Decided in 91 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Brannel School Rectory Road St. Stephen St. Austell PL26 7RN Cornwall. Cornwall has handled 24,959 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 6 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 2,254 applications in total for the PL26 postcode area.

94% of full 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
PL26 7RN
Application type
Full - Major application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
St. Stephen-in-Brannel
District
I17/31

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2009
Consultation expiry
26 October 2009
Consultation start
21 October 2009
Consultation end
26 October 2009
Neighbour consultation start
11 November 2009
Target decision date
11 November 2009
Application expires
26 October 2009
Permission expires
11 November 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Gareth Woodfin Greyfriars Road Greyfriars House Cardiff CF10 3AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 August 2009
Advertisement expiry
16 September 2009

Additional information

Documents
64
Constraints
7

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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2012
    8 Oct

    Submission of details to discharge conditions 5, 8, 11, 13 and 17 in respect of decision notice C2/09/01080

    S52/S106 and discharge of condition appsDischarge of conditionsPA12/09538
  2. 2009
    10 Aug

    Construction of new 750 pupil secondary school on the existing site of Brannel School. The school will also…

    This applicationApprovedFullC2/09/01080

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