Plan to move clubhouse and pitch for 120 homes

How the site could look if the plans are approved

A plan to relocate a rugby clubhouse and training pitch to make space for a development of 120 new homes, which would include access, parking and landscaping, is to be decided on Thursday.

Cornwall Council has applied to its own planning authority for approval for the development, which would relocate St Ives Rugby clubhouse and its training pitch.

The matter was brought before a strategic planning committee meeting by local member Andrew Mitchell due to a number of objections and the fact it is a council project on council land.

The plan would see a new clubhouse built to the west of the main pitch on the site of the old stand, as well as affordable homes.

'Clear benefits'

The new clubhouse and training pitch on Alexandra Road would be situated near to about 50 new homes and 70 care units, the Local Democracy Reporting Service reported.

The plan would be for all of the homes to be affordable.

The National Landscape Office has objected to both the proposed training pitch and the homes due to the proposed development being in a National Landscape, which classes it as a designated exceptional landscape.

A planning statement said: "There are a number of clear benefits arising from the proposal.

"There is a significant need for affordable housing and so the provision of up to 100% affordable houses would be a significant benefit that would carry significant weight."

The proposals would see the new clubhouse built to the west of the main pitch and the new training pitch would be to the west of the proposed clubhouse.

There would be also be four floodlighting columns.

The extra care units and homes would be built on the western part of the existing training pitch.