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Homes to be built on site of fire-hit farmhouse after appeal is approved
West Briton (Truro and Mid Cornwall)
|May 29, 2025
A CORNISH builder has won a planning appeal to knock down a dangerous fire-damaged farmhouse and replace it with 32 new homes in an area desperate for housing.
A government-appointed inspector has agreed that Cornwall Council was wrong to refuse Kevin Penrose’s application.
Mr Penrose applied to demolish Church View Farmhouse on Church View Road, Camborne, and replace it with the homes, which would include seven affordable properties, together with access, estate roads and landscaping/biodiversity net gain.
However, a council planning committee refused the application last June on the grounds that the development would be harmful to the character of the mining World Heritage Site in the nearby Tuckingmill area. Councillors made their decision after hearing Historic England's concerns that the demolition of the damaged farmhouse would lead to the loss of “heritage assets”.
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of West Briton (Truro and Mid Cornwall).
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