Plans for beach houses at ex-military camp

Application paperwork said the homes would be on "a highly prominent brownfield site... in dire need of repurposing"

Two planning applications have been made for the redevelopment of a former military camp in Cornwall with 12 beach houses and nearly 70 holiday cabins.

Holiday company Cabu has submitted one application for the beach homes in a development at Penhale Camp, near Holywell Bay, Newquay.

It seeks to demolish some of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) buildings on the site, build nine beach houses and refurbish some of the existing buildings, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

The second is for 67 new holiday cabins.

No date has been set for when a decision will be made about the applications.

Existing buildings will be refurbished and new ones built under the plans

Under the plans in the first application, the new homes will be a mix of two, three and four-bedroom properties.

They also include refurbishing a bungalow to create a two-bedroom house and an existing farmhouse to create two semi-detached properties.

Twenty-three parking spaces will be provided on the site.

In a planning statement, the applicant said it had also submitted the separate application for the holiday cabins, which would sit alongside future plans for leisure facilities, including a spa, swimming pool and sauna.

The planning statement said the area was "a highly prominent brownfield site that has been vacant since the MoD ended operations in 2010 and is in dire need of repurposing to secure a viable alternate use".

A pre-application document also highlighted that Cornwall Council had previously granted planning permission for the Penhale site for 132 homes and commercial buildings, but that permission had never been implemented.