Silvertrees Rescorla St Austell Cornwall PL26 8YT Data via plota.co.uk

PA26/03519 - Permission in Principle Approved

Proposal

Permission in Principle for proposed demolition of the existing buildings and the erection of up to 5 dwellings (minimum of 4, maximum 5) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:58

Application progress

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Received

22 May 2026

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Consultation

28 May 2026

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Approved

3 Jul 2026

Approved on 3 Jul 2026 · Peer Sign Off · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

SSSI 289 m away: Mid Cornwall Moors SSSI; Nature recovery project: G7 Legacy; 2 listed buildings within 150 m.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Cornwall
Application type: Permission in Principle
Postcode: PL26 8YT
Received: 22 May 2026
Validated: 22 May 2026
Ward: Penwithick And Boscoppa
Parish: Treverbyn
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 26 Jun 2026
Decision: Granted (CAADs, PIPs and LUs only)
Decision date: 3 Jul 2026
Decision level: Peer Sign Off
Applicant: Show
Agent: Montagu Town Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 12 days faster than Cornwall's median of 54 for demolitions. Approved, as 98% of demolitions here are.

This one42d

Council54d

UK55d

78%decided within 8 weeks

98%approved

229decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Cornwall in the last twelve months, from validation. Cornwall decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Site or press notice: 28 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

3 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2021 Refused

Single storey dwelling with integral garage parking for two cars.

PA21/03743 19 Jul 2021

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved

Lowenva Rescorla St Austell Cornwall PL26 8YT

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use: Change of use from Residential Care Home back…

PA24/03650 12 Sep 2024

2021 Approved

7 Council Houses Road From Kerrow Lane To Rescorla Rescorla St Austell PL26 8YT

Proposed residential annexe for family member

PA21/06349 3 Sep 2021

Cornwall

Planning Authority Score

7.9/10

Good

#28 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Cornwall is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #64 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

97% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Cornwall decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #79 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #28 of 296

76%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #64 of 296

35%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #101 of 296

82%

Minor dwellings approved

1180 decided (1-9 homes)

94%

Major dwellings approved

67 decided (10+ homes)

93%

Change of use approved

194 decided

4,839

Total decisions

363 refused in the year to March 2026