LAUNCESTON Town Council’s planning and economic development committee has lent its support to the latest reserved matters application to site up to 140 new homes at Upper Chapel.
The application for approval of reserved matters follows outline approval for the scheme, and is awaiting decision by Cornwall Council.
As well as some affordable homes, the application looks to provide a local equipped area of play, new vehicular and pedestrian access off Upper Chapel, and extension to existing cemetery and making provision for a car park.
Launceston Town Council, as a statutory consultee, commented after its planning meeting on March 29: “The town council supports the application subject to the proposed cemetery site having its own entrance site and parking and for the site to be properly screened from the residential development.
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“As services will be installed at the site as part of the development infrastructure, those services should be included within the proposed cemetery site.”
According to documents submitted to Cornwall Council, the development proposes a mix of 84 open market, two, three and four-bedroom homes, and 56 affordable, one, two, three and four-bedroom homes.
Design proposals state the developers hope to ‘create a distinctive and accessible development of the highest quality’.
The final decision on the planning application is expected to be made by?Cornwall Council.