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Land North East Of Lower Crahan Farm Crahan Wendron Cornwall TR13 0ND

PA25/08120Application under Section 73 of TCP ActApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 January 2026

Council decision: Approved with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)38 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Development of a geothermal power plant including site preparation, drilling of two deep geothermal wells, resource testing, construction of a binary cycle power station and subsequent operation with variation of conditions 15 and 17 of decision notice PA21/09827 dated 07.03.2023.

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
27
Ward
Crowan, Sithney And Wendron
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 92 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land North East Of Lower Crahan Farm Crahan Wendron Cornwall TR13 0ND. Cornwall has handled 3,840 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 6 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Crowan, Sithney And Wendron. We hold 2,060 applications in total for the TR13 postcode area.

93% of amendment 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
TR13 0ND
Application type
Application under Section 73 of TCP Act
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Wendron

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
7 December 2025
Target decision date
26 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 November 2025
Site notice start
16 November 2025
Site notice end
7 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14415180
Documents
13
Constraints
21

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2021
    2 Aug

    Screening Opinion request for a Proposed Geothermal Power Plant

    ApprovedScreening OpinionPA21/07848

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