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Planning and Housing: Interim policy Statement

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With the rest of the people stooping under the weight of Labour's dictats and the country expected to create so much new housing wherever and whenever, with its 1.5 million houses targets under the Starmer, Rayner, Reeves regime, Cornwall Council has written an interim policy.

Government’s new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) came into force on 12th December 2024. This sets out revised guidance and policies for planning across England.

Government published a standard housing method alongside the NPPF. This is the method that we must use to understand how many new homes should be built each year in Cornwall. We must now plan for 4,421 homes in Cornwall instead of the 2,707 that we have been planning for under the current Local Plan.

Where a plan is more than 5 years old, we must be able to show that the plan can meet the new housing requirement of 4,421 homes per year for it to remain ‘up to date’.

We have concluded that this is not currently possible and on that basis some of our policies in the Local Plan will be considered ‘out of date’ for decision making. However, where our policies remain consistent with the NPPF they can continue to be used for decision making. This is true of the majority of our policies across the Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plans.

We have now published an Interim Policy Position Statement for consultation.

We believe that most of our planning policies can continue to be used for planning decisions in conformity with the NPPF.

To help decision making under the ‘Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development’ the Interim Policy Position Statementsets out:

  • Which policies we think are out of date and which ones can still be used

  • How our policies reflect national policies

  • How we will make positive planning decisions

  • Our principles for development

  • Information about a new local plan

Consultation on the Interim Statement started on 24th January. It closes at 5pm on 21st February 2025. Comments received during this period will be considered by the Cornwall Growth Board.

You can view paper copies at:

  • New County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 1AY;

  • Chy Trevail, Beacon Technology Park, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2FR; and

  • St John’s Hall, Alverton Street, Penzance, TR18 2QW

Please submit your comment to: localplan@cornwall.gov.uk by 21st February 2025.


Why have we produced this statement?

We have published this Interim Policy Position Statement to ensure the continued delivery of new housing by providing a clear and consistent approach to assessing and making decisions on development proposals during a period where the ‘presumption in favour of sustainable development’ will apply to Cornwall.

We want to ensure that new homes are delivered in the right places, and at an appropriate scale, to help meet Cornwall’s housing needs whilst we are preparing a new local plan. We’re using this statement to identify how to create sustainable new housing. This means using the vision and principles of both our housing requirement. This includes those that set an overall requirement and/or make allocations and allowances for windfall sites.

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