Land Adj To Tennis Courts, Pool Road, Middle Down, Tresco. Data via plota.co.uk

Pending P/26/064/FUL - Full
Commercial & major worksCommercial premises
Council
Scilly Isles
Date received
around 8 Jul 2026
Date validated
8 Jul 2026
Type
Full

Description

Construction of new Padel Court. Commenting on an application If you wish to comment on an application, you can do so in writing to the Planning Officer by email or by letter to the address below. Please note that postal communication may currently experience slight delays. Hard copies of the plans are currently unavailable to view in person however please call the Planning Department on 01720 Data via plota.co.uk

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Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 4 Oct 2026; it is now day 88.

Day 88, past the statutory target. 74% of full applications in Scilly Isles are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 7 Oct 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 25 Jul 2026.

Day 8832 days past the 56-day target
43%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
24decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Scilly Isles in the last twelve months, from validation. Scilly Isles decision record →

Site constraints 8

Isles Of Scilly National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Isles of Scilly conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Heritage coast: Isles of Scilly
A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.
Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 1. 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.
SSSI about 18 m away: Great Pool (Tresco) SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Registered park or garden about 106 m away: Tresco; Priority habitat about 18 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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 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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