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Community wins car park camera battle... for now
Cornish Guardian (Newquay & North Coast)
|June 25, 2025
PERSISTENT protesters appear to have won a long-fought battle to stop a Cornish landowner installing an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) car park at an isolated beach.
However, if the private estate does not make £1,000 by the end of the year from what is now a “normal” car park with no enforcement, it will go ahead and install ANPR cameras and signs.
Campaigners marched on Caerhays Castle, near Gorran Haven, in March in an ongoing bid to stop the Caerhays Estate installing an ANPR car park with payment machine at what has previously been a free car park at West Portholland beach.
The longstanding battle looked to be resolved to the satisfaction of residents in June 2024 when a planning application was refused by a Cornwall Council committee.
However, the bid by Birmingham based private parking enforcement firm Initial Parking Ltd, on behalf of Caerhays, which owns the beach on the Roseland peninsula, was later approved on appeal by a Bristol-based Government planning inspector.
This story is from the June 25, 2025 edition of Cornish Guardian (Newquay & North Coast).
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