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Sweet Briar Road From Chapel Hill To Prentice House Little Polgooth St Austell Cornwall PL26 7DD

PA24/02408Full applicationRefused
Full

Refused on 8 August 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land to additional residential curtilage and construction of a garden cabin/holiday let

Received
15 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
St Mewan And Grampound
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Jul
  5. Decided8 Aug

Decided in 85 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Sweet Briar Road From Chapel Hill To Prentice House Little Polgooth St Austell Cornwall PL26 7DD. Cornwall has handled 24,959 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 5 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across St Mewan And Grampound. 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 7DD
Application type
Full application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St. Mewan

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2024
Consultation expiry
18 June 2024
Target decision date
10 July 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 May 2024
Site notice end
18 June 2024

Appeal history

3357656
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 21 August 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12708174
Documents
10
Constraints
14

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

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.

Source: Cornwall

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