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Merchants House 22 Fore Street Fowey Cornwall PL23 1AQ

PA24/09792Full applicationApproved
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Approved on 19 March 2025

Council decision: Approved with conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Alteration to existing property - Merchants House/Mews merged into a single dwelling to include interior and exterior changes.

Received
9 January 2025
Public comments
4
Ward
Fowey, Tywardreath And Par
Agent
Inhaus Designs
  1. Received9 Jan
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Merchants House 22 Fore Street Fowey Cornwall PL23 1AQ. Cornwall has handled 24,959 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Fowey conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Fowey, Tywardreath And Par. We hold 438 applications in total for the PL23 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
PL23 1AQ
Application type
Full application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fowey

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2025
Consultation expiry
10 February 2025
Target decision date
6 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Inhaus Designs
Agent address
Oravia House Lower Floor Trevarthian Road St Austell PL25 4BH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 January 2025
Site notice start
20 January 2025
Site notice end
10 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13615198
Documents
22
Constraints
29

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Fowey
  • Listed building: Grade II: Lloyds Bank LimitedOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cornwall
  • Heritage coast: Gribbin Head - Polperro

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 (18)

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, 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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