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Wharfside Shopping Centre Wharf Road Penzance Cornwall TR18 2GA

PA25/01957Prior Approval Commercial to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 May 2025

Council decision: Prior approval not req'd(PA/AF/TEL/DEM/)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for change of use from commercial to two dwellings

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Penzance East
Agent
Agrarian Ltd
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Wharfside Shopping Centre Wharf Road Penzance Cornwall TR18 2GA. Cornwall has handled 6,901 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Penzance conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Penzance East. We hold 575 applications in total for the TR18 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
TR18 2GA
Application type
Prior Approval Commercial to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Penzance

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
9 April 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Agrarian Ltd
Architect profile
AGRARIAN LIMITED
Agent address
Walgaston Farm Mobley Berkeley Gloucestershire GL13 9EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 March 2025
Site notice end
9 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13845464
Documents
18
Constraints
29

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Penzance
  • Listed building: Grade II: 83, Market Jew StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Mor Workspace Treloggan Lane Newquay Cornwall TR7 2FPRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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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