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Land North West Of Elm Tree Cottage Ricketts Road Polgooth Cornwall

PA25/08409Permission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 March 2026

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 for erection of up to six dwellings (minimum of 6 ,maximum of 6)

Received
7 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
St Mewan And Grampound
Agent
John Cook Planning Services
  1. Received7 Nov
  2. Validated7 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Dec
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 138 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land North West Of Elm Tree Cottage Ricketts Road Polgooth Cornwall. Cornwall has handled 6,901 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 13 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across St Mewan And Grampound.

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

Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St. Mewan

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 November 2025
Consultation expiry
18 December 2025
Target decision date
13 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
John Cook Planning Services
Agent address
52 Phernyssick Road St Austell PL25 3TU

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 November 2025
Site notice end
18 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
13

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

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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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