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D · Tier counted against the site

Rosemellyn Fisheries, Roche Road, St Austell (holiday wagons and caravans)

6010729·Cornwall·8 Sept 2026dismissed·PA25/05532

Tier label used

settlement hierarchy (Policy 3)

The tier sentence ¶7

“based on a settlement hierarchy of role and function”

The route sentence ¶11

“This route would not be conducive to safe pedestrian use due to the distance involved, lack of pavements and safe refuge, as well as lack of street lighting along sections of the route.”

Summary

A part-retrospective scheme for holiday accommodation (railway wagons, a shepherd's hut, caravans and a shower block) at a rural fishery near St Austell was dismissed. There were two reasons: heavy car reliance, and flood risk to the access route. The units were in Flood Zone 1 but the only access crossed Flood Zone 2/3 and there was no formal emergency plan, so F7's safe-access requirement was not met.

The location finding

  • TR3: fail. facilities in Bugle reached along a fast road with no pavements, refuge or lighting; not well served by public transport; heavy car reliance (DL 10-13, 23)

Why this is cited

Site outside any defined settlement: against. The route failed too: no pavements, unlit sections and poor public transport; dismissed. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site (and the route was decisive too).

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6010729.txt

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