Councillor opposes 42 affordable homes over road safety fears

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 17 Oct, 16:32 · Archive

A councillor in Lanner, Cornwall is pushing for refusal of a plan to build 42 affordable homes, citing road safety concerns.

Quoinstone Developments Limited has applied for outline permission to build 42 affordable homes plus a community car park on land behind Lannarth Farmhouse, Rough Street, in Lanner, in partnership with Coastline Housing. The development aims to provide 100 per cent affordable housing for local people.

Cllr John Thomas is pushing for the application to be refused, saying he 'cannot believe that the only way to develop this site is to put lives at risk'. He has brought the matter before Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee rather than allowing approval under delegated officer powers.

The council's planning team acknowledges the proposal would change the character of the site and cause some localised harm to the rural setting, with loss of agricultural land and existing hedgerow. However, it considers these impacts limited in extent and capable of being mitigated through reserved matters applications and planning conditions. Technical consultees covering access, highway safety, ecology, drainage, flood risk, affordable housing, archaeology and infrastructure raise no overriding objections subject to appropriate mitigation.

How it is being reported

• Cornwall planning: Fear that proposal for 42 affordable homes 'will put lives at risk'The council believes the development should be approved, but the local councillor 'cannot believe that the only way to develop this site is to put lives at risk'CornwallLive · 17 Oct, 16:00
• Fear plan for 42 affordable homes will ‘put lives at risk’The councillor for Lanner, near Redruth, is pushing for the refusal of a plan to build 42 affordable homes in the village as he has serious road safety fears.Falmouth Packet · 17 Oct, 09:43

In this story: Cllr John Thomas · Quoinstone Developments Limited · Coastline Housing · Lanner · Cornwall Council · Redruth

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