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3 High Street Falmouth Cornwall TR11 2AB

PA24/01106Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 5 April 2024

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed building consent to install a new Blue Plaque celebrating the significance of the building (Old Town Hall) to Falmouth's history

Received
23 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Falmouth Penwerris
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided5 Apr

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 3 High Street Falmouth Cornwall TR11 2AB. Cornwall has handled 2,431 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker 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 2AB
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Falmouth

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2024
Consultation expiry
27 March 2024
Target decision date
19 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 March 2024
Site notice start
6 March 2024
Site notice end
27 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12798718
Documents
13
Constraints
23

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*: The Old Town HallOn this site · +3 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.

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

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

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