Planning appeal decision
Longdowns Industrial Estate, Longdowns, TR10 9NA
Planning appeal 3343075 at Longdowns Industrial Estate, Longdowns, TR10 9NA (Cornwall Council) was dismissed on 9 December 2024 by Inspector Wilson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the principle of the proposed development is acceptable, having regard to the location of the appeal site and to the proposed land use.
construction of up to 5 dwellings
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wilson S
- Postcode
- TR10 9NA
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the principle of the proposed development is acceptable, having regard to the location of the appeal site and to the proposed land use
What decided it
The proposal would result in unacceptable living conditions for future residents due to noise and disturbance from the adjacent industrial estate, which could not be adequately assessed given the outdated and non-site-specific noise evidence provided.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy 12Policy 13Policy 16Policy 5(2)(i)Policy 5(2)(ii)Policy 1Policy 2Policy 5Policy C1
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Cornwall
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024
- Allowed11 August 20266003039Land to the North and South of Trerice Farmhouse, Trerice Dairy Farm and Green Meadows, St Dennis, St. Austell, PL26 8EG
- Dismissed10 August 202660054649 Coronation Place, Helston, TR13 8JD
- Allowed28 July 20263375136Land Adjacent Wind Turbine, Station Road, Camelford , Cornwall, PL32 9TX
- Allowed9 July 20266007921Crowan Crafts, 11 Market Place, St Ives, TR26 1RZ
- Notice varied and upheld2 June 20263340536The Flat, 30 Fore Street, Fowey, PL23 1AQ
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.
®