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Royal Cornwall Museum 25 River Street Truro Cornwall TR1 2SJ

PA26/00521/PREAPPPre-Application HBA - Publicly AvailableAwaiting decision
Outline / PiP
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Pre-application advice for Interior demolitions, alterations and refurbishment to existing museum building including upgrades to mechanical and electrical services throughout. Investigative opening up works to enable the design work related to this.

Received
22 April 2026
Decision due
5 June 2026
Ward
Truro Moresk And Trehaverne
  1. Received22 Apr
  2. Validated22 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Jun
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an outline application at Royal Cornwall Museum 25 River Street Truro Cornwall TR1 2SJ. Cornwall has handled 6,901 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 22 April 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Truro conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Truro Moresk And Trehaverne. We hold 395 applications in total for the TR1 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
TR1 2SJ
Application type
Pre-Application HBA - Publicly Available
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Truro

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Lonsdale Road London W11 2DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
44 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

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, 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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