Plan for 50 new homes in Cornish village

Developer Gilbert & Goode has applied for planning permission to build 50 new homes, including affordable housing, on land in Lelant, near St Ives. The proposal for land near Tyringham Road also includes landscaping, open space and associated infrastructure.

The application is submitted as a rural exception scheme on the basis that it is affordable housing-led to address housing need in the local community. A supporting statement says: “The submission has been tested through comprehensive technical studies, which demonstrate that the development can be delivered appropriately on the site. As part of this work, the application has also been subject to a detailed viability assessment which concludes that a scheme of 50 dwellings can be viably delivered with 56 per cent (28) of the dwellings delivered as affordable homes and 44 per cent (22) being delivered as open market homes.

The application site is on approximately 2.25 hectares of land located at the western side of Lelant. It is bound to the north by Tyringham Road to the east and south by residential dwellings and to the west lies agricultural land and Trevenwyth Rural workshops.

The site is not subject to any statutory landscape constraints, such as National Landscapes, though it does sit close to the Area of Great Landscape Value designation. The southern portion of the site also sits within the Lelant Tree Preservation Order which was made in the 1960s.

That part of the site is proposed to be retained as open space, additional tree planting and drainage and there would be minimal intervention with any trees. A public right of way also lies adjacent to the south west boundary of the site which the proposals seek to link in to with a footpath from the development, creating a pedestrian link to the wider village.

In terms of the affordable housing tenure split, the proposed mix is 50 per cent social rent and 50 per cent shared ownership, with a mix of unit sizes proposed to reflect local need, taking into account local housing need requirements, along with issues of scheme viability and the physical features of the site.

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