CPRE Cornwall files objection against Carbis Bay Hotel retrospective application
The application is expected to be looked at in the weeks to come
The three 'meeting rooms' were built by Carbis Bay Hotel without any planning application (Image: CPRE Cornwall)
Countryside charity CPRE Cornwall has added its voice to the growing number of objections demanding that Carbis Bay Hotel be refused planning permission for the work they did illegally ahead of the G7 Summit.
The organisation has submitted a formal objection to a planning application by Carbis Bay Hotel, near St Ives, Cornwall, for retrospective permission for three meeting rooms and access path on site.
The hotel destroyed a woodland and erected the controversial buildings ahead of the Summit which saw world leaders like US president Joe Biden descend on Cornwall for a three-day event.
The work was carried out without planning permission from Cornwall Council but the local authority allowed the hotel to proceed and to put in a retrospective application in after the G7 Summit.
More 390 complaints have been received from people and organisations in West Cornwall objecting to the work being granted permission and asking for the three buildings to be pulled down and the wild area to be restored to what it was before.
Richard Stubbs, chairman of CPRE Cornwall, said: “This hotel has, in defiance of a previous planning refusal, sought to clear a natural area including many established trees, falsely using the G7 as justification.
"Powerful business interests should not be allowed to trample the planning regulations underfoot. The rules are there to protect the exceptional character and beauty of Cornwall.
“We will be doing our very best to ensure the current planning application is refused and, should it become necessary, that Cornwall Council issues an enforcement order for these buildings to be demolished and removed.”
In 2018 the hotel saw a previous application to do the same work refused by Cornwall Council with the reasons given that it would not promote local distinctiveness or integrate well with the existing built form, would encroach onto an undeveloped woodland/scrub above the beach and have a detrimental visual impact on the unspoilt character of the continuous strip of greenfield land along the coastal slope.
The retrospective application is expected to be considered by Cornwall Council in the next few weeks.
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