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St Saviours Church Fore Street Polruan Fowey Cornwall PL23 1PH

PA24/07170Permission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 July 2025

Council decision: Granted (CAADs, PIPs and LUs only)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Permission in Principle to convert the building to up to 4 apartments (minimum of 2, maximum of 4)

Received
18 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos
Agent
Montagu Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received18 Sep
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided29 Jul

Decided in 314 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at St Saviours Church Fore Street Polruan Fowey Cornwall PL23 1PH. Cornwall has handled 6,901 applications of this type. This one was decided in 314 days, 38 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Polruan conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos. We hold 438 applications in total for the PL23 postcode area.

86% of outline 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
PL23 1PH
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lanteglos

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2024
Consultation expiry
23 October 2024
Target decision date
24 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Montagu Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
Glebe Barn St Enoder Summercourt Newquay TR8 5DF

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 October 2024
Site notice end
23 October 2024

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polruan
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cornwall
  • Heritage coast: Gribbin Head - Polperro
  • 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 (19)

flood storage 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 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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© 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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