PLANNING permission to provide new tourist accommodation at Rezare has been refused by the area’s Cornwall Council planning committee.

The application was for the demolition of existing building/stables, construction of detached single storey building for tourist accommodation, and installation of non-mains drainage system at The Platt.

The application was considered by councillors last week, at the request of divisional member Neil Burden, on the basis that the proposal will be similar to a ‘glamping’ barn, which seems to receive general support from planners in the area.

But the application was refused, in line with the recommendation by the planning officer, because it was felt ‘proposed development in this rural countryside location would represent unsustainable, sporadic new residential accommodation where no overriding justification has been submitted to demonstrate the proposed development would meet an identified need that is not met by existing facilities in rural service centres’.