17A Alverton Street Penzance Cornwall TR18 2QP
Refused on 8 September 2026
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Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness for proposed use: Change of use from domestic flat to storage space and office complimentarty to offices below at Number 17
- Received
- 10 July 2026
- Council
- Cornwall Council
- Ward
- Penzance Promenade
- ReceivedReceived10 Jul
- ValidatedValidated10 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date4 Sep
- DecidedDecided8 Sep
Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 17A Alverton Street Penzance Cornwall TR18 2QP. 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 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Penzance Promenade. 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 2QP
- Application type
- Cert Lawfulness - proposed dev/use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Penzance
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 July 2026
- Target decision date
- 4 September 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Penzance
- 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 (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.
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Source: Cornwall
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