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Allowed29 January 20263368536

Penhale Camp, Camp Road, Holywell Bay, Cornwall , TR8 5PF

Planning appeal 3368536 at Penhale Camp, Camp Road, Holywell Bay, Cornwall , TR8 5PF (Cornwall Council) was allowed on 29 January 2026 by Inspector Han U, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposed development is of an appropriate scale to its location, having particular regard to its effect on the surrounding area including an Area of Great Landscape Value (the AGLV).

partial demolition of existing buildings and development of a holiday park comprising short stay holiday accommodation units and associated leisure facilities through redevelopment and refurbishment along with landscaping, boundary treatment, access, parkin g, drainage, services and plant

Authority
Cornwall Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
leisure-sport · Other minor developments
Inspector
Han U
Postcode
TR8 5PF

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the proposed development is of an appropriate scale to its location, having particular regard to its effect on the surrounding area including an Area of Great Landscape Value (the AGLV)
  • whether the proposed development constitutes sustainable development, having particular regard to its accessibility by a range of transport modes

What decided it

The Inspector's conclusion that the redevelopment was of an appropriate scale with no significant harmful landscape/visual effect on the AGLV and was accessible by a reasonable range of sustainable transport modes, meaning the proposal accorded with the development plan as a whole.

the proposal accords with the development plan taken as a whole, and even if less than substantial harm to a listed building's setting were found, the considerable public benefits (economic, social and environmental) would outweigh any minor/moderate harm to non-designated heritage assets

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy 5(3) of the CLPPolicy 23 of the CLPPolicy 21(C) of the CLPPolicy NE2 of the PNDPPolicy NE3 of the PNDPPolicy NE7 of the PNDPPolicy G2 of the Climate Emergency Development Plan DocumentPolicy 5(1)(c) of the CLPPolicy NE1 of the PNDPPolicies 3, 5, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27 of the CLP
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 110Paragraph 183Paragraph 216

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