Land at Penstraze, Chacewater

6007466·Cornwall·8 Sept 2026dismissed·PA25/09003

Tier label used

smaller settlements

The tier sentence ¶7

“within or adjoining smaller settlements”

The route sentence ¶15

“occupants of the development would not be within easy walking distance of the services necessary for everyday life”

Summary

Permission in principle for nine homes on two small fields south of the A390, opposite the roadside settlement of Penstraze, within the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Dismissed. The location was found "relatively sustainable": there is a level segregated cycleway and a bus stop. The Council's supply is only 3.9 years. But the loss of legible miners' smallholding enclosures was harm to the WHS's Outstanding Universal Value. Given HE6 substantial weight and the site's international importance, that harm outweighed substantial weight to housing.

The location finding

TR3: pass. "relatively sustainable": segregated level cycleway to settlements 1.5 km each way, westbound bus 100 m; eastbound stop across unlit A390 deters (DL 15-17)

Why this is cited

Policy 3 support for development at smaller settlements not met and site outside the neighbourhood plan boundaries: against; dismissed on World Heritage Site harm. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6007466.txt

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