Committees - Planning

Planning

Statutory Consultee

Penzance Council is a statutory consultee for all Penzance Parish planning applications.

This means that Cornwall Council, who make the final decisions on all applications, are legally required to consult with Penzance Council before a decision is made on applications within the Parish.

The Planning Committee makes comments on applications based on submitted plans, public comments on proposals, and reports provided by other departments and outside bodies where appropriate eg. the Strategic Historic Environment Service, the Environment Agency and Historic England.

Penzance Council does not make the final decision on planning applications – these are made by Cornwall Council.

Our Meetings

Our Planning Committee meets on a Wednesday evening once every three weeks. They meet to discuss planning applications submitted within the Penzance Parish (this includes Newlyn, Mousehole, Paul, Heamoor, Gulval, and Eastern Green).

Meeting agendas, and a list of planning applications to be considered, are published three clear working days in advance. They are posted on our public noticeboards, on our website and on our Facebook page

All members of the public are welcome to attend – you have the opportunity to comment on specific planning applications at the start of the meeting.

Overview of the last year

Over the past year, the Committee has commented on just over 300 planning applications. There has been a noticeable trend for extensions and alterations of existing residential properties.

The Committee held an extraordinary meeting in the Newlyn Centre to consider as application for twenty-nine affordable dwellings with a mix of bungalows, flats and two and two -and three-bedroom houses on land adjacent to Chywoone Farm, Newlyn.

A larger application was for the proposed erection of 320 dwellings on land at Trannack Farm, Penzance and the demolition of an existing agricultural building.

Another extraordinary meeting was held at St John’s Hall to consider this application which was well attended by members of the public. After considering the application, and hearing from local residents, the Committee unanimously voted to object to the proposed development at Trannack Farm.

Local residents at the extraordinary Planning Committee meeting to consider the Trannack Farm development - Feb 2023