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Dismissed2 May 20253355210

Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Helston, Cornwall, TR12 6NY

Planning appeal 3355210 at Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Helston, Cornwall, TR12 6NY (Cornwall Council) was dismissed on 2 May 2025 by Inspector Bristow T, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the appeal site is suitable for the development proposed.

Change of Use application for the existing use of the site as a stone quarry to be rescinded and replaced by a holiday park for 53 eco-lodges, for holiday use only, together with a further 3 holiday eco-lodges for the sole benefit of charitable causes, in addition to the offer to build up to 20 affordable homes within the parish of St Keverne

Authority
Cornwall Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
Bristow T
Postcode
TR12 6NY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the appeal site is suitable for the development proposed

What decided it

the proposal would sterilise the mineral resource contrary to MSDPD policy MS1 and cause serious and permanent landscape harm to the AONB, which the moderate benefits of the scheme were insufficient to outweigh

the moderate weight attributable to the scheme's economic, energy-efficiency and biodiversity benefits was clearly insufficient to outweigh the harm from mineral sterilisation, serious and permanent landscape harm to the AONB, and the unsustainable scale and location of the scheme

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
LPSP policy 3LPSP policy 5LPSP policy 23MSDPD policy MS1CEDPD policy C1CEDPD policy T1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 226Paragraph 190Paragraph 200Paragraph 189Paragraph 88Paragraph 89Paragraph 110Paragraph 224Paragraph 201
Judgments
Roskilly, R (On the Application Of) v Cornwall Council and Others [2015] EWHC 3711 (Admin)

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