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Sheldon House Nursing Home Sea View Road Falmouth Cornwall TR11 4EF

PA25/06586Full applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 27 February 2026

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use and conversion of the former Sheldon House Nursing Home from a care home (Use Class C2) to 13 one-bedroom Specialised Supported Housing (SSH) apartments (Use Class C3b) for individuals with disabilities, together with associated works to site access, new parking and landscaping

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
14
Ward
Falmouth Arwenack
Agent
Rapleys LLP (Manchester)
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 126 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Sheldon House Nursing Home Sea View Road Falmouth Cornwall TR11 4EF. Cornwall has handled 24,959 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 11 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Falmouth conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Falmouth Arwenack. We hold 2,022 applications in total for the TR11 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
TR11 4EF
Application type
Full application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Falmouth

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
4 December 2025
Target decision date
23 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rapleys LLP (Manchester)
Agent address
York House York Street Manchester M2 3BB

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 November 2025
Site notice start
13 November 2025
Site notice end
4 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14288500
Documents
33
Constraints
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Falmouth
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

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