Municipal Building Offices The Moor Falmouth Cornwall TR11 2RT

PA23/09233Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 3 June 2024

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Listed Building Consent to install new signage for Falmouth Art Gallery and Falmouth Library on the exterior of the Municipal Buildings.

Received: 5 February 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 4
Council: Cornwall Council
Ward: Falmouth Penwerris

ReceivedReceived5 Feb
ValidatedValidated5 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date1 Apr
DecidedDecided3 Jun

Decided in 119 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for signage at Municipal Building Offices The Moor Falmouth Cornwall TR11 2RT. Cornwall has handled 2,431 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 10 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Falmouth conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Falmouth Penwerris. We hold 2,022 applications in total for the TR11 postcode area.

98% of heritage 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: TR11 2RT
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Falmouth

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 February 2024
Consultation expiry: 1 March 2024
Target decision date: 1 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 1 March 2024
Site notice start: 19 February 2024
Site notice end: 1 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12489394
Documents: 24
Constraints: 26

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Falmouth
Listed building: Grade II: Falmouth Art Gallery and Library; Passmore Edwards Free LibraryOn this site · +1 more
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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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