Land At Two Burrows Two Burrows Blackwater Cornwall TR4 8HN Data via plota.co.uk

PA26/04584 - Permission in Principle Approved

Proposal

Application for Permission in Principle to convert agricultural barn and storage building into 1 dwelling (minimum of 1, maximum of 1). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:07

Application progress

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Received

6 Jul 2026

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Consultation

16 Jul 2026

✓

Approved

10 Aug 2026

Approved on 10 Aug 2026 · Peer Sign Off · Last checked 10 Aug 2026

Documents 7

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

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 Expansion Zone

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

National infrastructure project about 938 m away: A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross Scheme

The site is about 938 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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: TR4 8HN
Received: 6 Jul 2026
Validated: 6 Jul 2026
Ward: Perranporth
Parish: St. Agnes
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 Aug 2026
Decision: Granted (CAADs, PIPs and LUs only)
Decision date: 10 Aug 2026
Decision level: Peer Sign Off
Applicant: Show
Agent: Montagu Town Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, 8 days slower than Cornwall's median of 27 for agricultural works. Approved, as 87% of agricultural works here are.

This one35d

Council27d

UK44d

85%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

100%go to committee

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 10 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15053250
Planning Portal ref: PP-15053250
Comments by: 30 Jul 2026
Site or press notice: 16 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry: 10 Aug 2026
Env. assessment: No

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