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Land South Of Seaways (Top Field) Harlyn Road St Merryn Padstow Cornwall PL28 8SF

PA21/02623Cert Lawful Use/Development - existingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 27 September 2022

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for an existing use of land as a camping site for tents

Received
11 March 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Padstow
Agent
John Cook Planning Services
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target6 May
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 565 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land South Of Seaways (Top Field) Harlyn Road St Merryn Padstow Cornwall PL28 8SF. Cornwall has handled 3,840 applications of this type. This one was decided in 565 days, 74 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 138 applications across Padstow. We hold 1,832 applications in total for the PL28 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
PL28 8SF
Application type
Cert Lawful Use/Development - existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St. Merryn

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2021
Consultation expiry
6 May 2021
Neighbour consultation start
2 April 2021
Neighbour consultation end
23 April 2021
Target decision date
6 May 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
John Cook Planning Services
Agent address
52 Phernyssick Road St Austell PL25 3TU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 April 2021
Site notice end
6 May 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09596521
Documents
40
Constraints
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Cornwall
  • 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 (21)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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