THIS BEAUTIFUL HEADLAND AND THE WILDLIFE THAT CALLS IT HOME, IS WORTH SAVING.
(Objection to planning application below)
The city slicker developer must be booted out; they have no place there.
One way to fight is to make it so hot and expensive for them by objecting and objecting again to ensure that it is not profitable.
Perhaps it is time for the Gypsy curse that has worked so well at Langarth Farm to also be placed on the Holy Ground of Penhale to protect it from the attacks of the insidious.
Fire must sometimes be fought with even hotter fire.
FOCUSSED PUBLIC OPINION IS A LETHAL WEAPON IN A CASE LIKE THIS, SO PLEASE DO YOUR BIT BY RAISING RUCTIONS IN ORDER TO MAKE IT UNBEARABLY HOT FOR THE ALIEN DEVELOPER.
Let’s work together to send CABU packing back to the smoke whence they came.
Please OBJECT here asap:
An environmental crime only occurs when planning ermission is not given and the developer actually starts work on site.
Presently, it is a potential environmental crime which must be prevented by SUFFICIENT NUMBERS REGISTERING THEIR EXTREME DISAPPROVAL through the proper channels in a manner that cannot be ignored by the decision makers.
Remember the last approval was actually rejected by Cornwall Council only to be overturned on appeal at government level which gives some grounds for cautious optimism.
Fortunately that still highly controversial permission granted to Ampersand timed out and a complete new application is now about to be submitted by Cabu after taking pre application advice from Cornwall Planners.
I am not sure if that advice will be in the public domain but a mass FOI request from everyone will clarify that.
Our MP ought to bear very firmly in mind that the wrong decision on this matter coupled with her apparent unwillingness to engage with her constituents with regard to this crucial matter could seriously compromise her prospects of re-election.
Finally in this case if it is necessary to wave a stick it really does need to be a big one.
I WISH TO STRONGLY OBJECT TO PA22/02896 – PP-11110054 RELATING TO LAND AT THE FORMER PENHALE ARMY CAMP AT HOLYWELL.
The adjoining extensive Penhale Sands stable dune system is retained by the MOD.
The sands are located 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of the town of Newquay, in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe, stretching for over 2.5 miles (4.0 km) between Perranporth in the south and Holywell to the north, with the Atlantic Ocean and Perran Beach to the west.
The Cornish sand dunes are thought to have formed over 5,000 years ago as sea levels rose to approximately their present levels.
Penhale Sands are the largest dune system within Cornwall and has a maximum depth of 48 metres (157 ft) of sand.
The system, of over 650 hectares (1,600 acres), extends for more than 1 mile (1.6 km) inland and includes Reen Sands, Gear Sands and Perransands.
As a contaminated brownfield site Penhale Camp will present obvious issues to a potential developer.
Notwithstanding this background information Penhale Camp is a vital potentially missing link in an unbroken coastal wildlife corridor between Perranporth and Crantock.
Given its obvious environmental significance the MOD stands accused for marketing the site for yet another intrusive coastal development when it is glaringly obvious that the site should have been returned back to its natural state as a site of national wildlife significance.
Cornwall Council originally resisted and rejected the original Ampersand development proposal but was forced to give planning permission for yet another dreary development following the direct intervention of then planning supremo Sajid Javid.
The other organisations, most notably the National Trust appear to have stood idly by thereby giving the developer an easy passage that will cost the North Cornwall Coast and its threatened wildlife dear in years to come if the current misbegotten proposal is given planning permission.
Fortunately that original planning permission timed out so the current aspiring developer Cabu is obliged to submit a fresh full planning application which gives everyone another opportunity to object on the very sound grounds that wildlife continues to consolidate its presence at the site.
MY SPECIFIC OBJECTIONS ARE:
1- If allowed this development will contribute to already serious congestion and environmental degradation in the immediate locality that currently makes life intolerable for local people unconnected with tourism at peak times. It is already a fact that over tourism will be detrimental in the longer term to Cornwall’s existing tourist economy and environment along the North Coast strip north of the A3075 between Newquay and St Agnes. While the area remains besieged by developers wishing to cash in on demands that cannot be considered sustainable or acceptable to the established population whose lives are already adversely affected to the point of being intolerable this gives strong grounds for objection in isolation. HOWEVER objection 2 (below) is impossible to ignore.
2- During more than a decade of human abandonment the Penhale site has been strongly re-colonised by nature including a high proportion of rare and endangered species as the natural increasingly rare coastal habitat has regenerated free of human interference exponentially year on year making the Penhale site of national significance in isolation but even more so when considered in conjunction with the adjoining 650 hectare Penhale SSSI. Species that WILL be affected if this application prevails include birds like the recently re-established choughs, peregrine falcons, ravens and kestrels, various species of bats particularly in the old shower blocks which have been recorded on video, as well as snakes and lizards along with several species of rare and endangered butterflies and moths.
Kevin Bennetts
THE CRICHEL DOWNS RULES APPLY TO THE DISPOSAL OF MOD LAND SUCH AS PENHALE.
The question being, were they strictly adhered to?
Revised Environmental Provisions
The environmental provisions under Condition 23 have been revised based on previous case
precedents that will facilitate review of the clauses on a generic basis and give greater focus to transfer of environmental risk to the buyer.
Emphasis is made of the fact cases are ‘Sold with Information’ and to the buyer being required to take out Environmental Impairment Liability Insurance if they consider it necessary to do so.
Condition 23.4 also references various reports, all of which are expected to form part of the Sale Information Pack.
State of Repair and Condition of Property
Amendments have been made to this Condition (now Condition 21) to run in conjunction with the revised environmental provisions.
Condition 21.1.2 has been expanded with alterations both in style and presentation.
Format Change
The contract generally has been put into a more modern format to facilitate the drafting in of additional clauses where this might become necessary in the future.
Perpetuity Period
Following repeal of the rule on perpetuities on enactment of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009, reference to the Perpetuity Period has been removed from the clawback and overage provisions.
3. Attached are the revised standard Conditions of Sale and Clawback Clause Version 6.0 (incorporating the full version of the Clawback and Overage Clauses) and the Land Registry Transfer TP1 (incorporating the shortened version of the Clawback clause) together with an update of the supporting Guide to the Clawback and Overage Clause Version 3.0.
The Annexes of the Form CH1 and the Deed of Covenant, to be used where applicable in conjunction with these Clauses, are also
provided. These forms must now be used in all future cases of MOD land sold subject to clawback and where completion or commencement of the sale will occur after the effective date of this Instruction.
4. This PI supersedes PI 02/09 which is hereby withdrawn.