Housing
Croft Mear, Pendeen

Cllr Sue James, founding Trustee and on-going Chair, outside one of the terraces built at Croft Mear, Pendeen, as it neared completion in 2015. Housing Market conditions changed between our obtaining planning consent and completion so, only 3 of the homes were originally sold to 1st time local buyers and 5 were purchased by Cornwall Council for local rent.


The other photos show the housing as it is today, with the residents and Land Trust working together to maintain the open spaces.
Lafrowda Close
We are at the early stages of working with Agile Properties to make a planning application for 3 homes for local people in the disused area of Lafrowda Close. As part of early decisions to work with Agile Properties, we engaged with those in need of homes, all of whom were positive about their potential. The provisional outline sketch (below) shows how these might be laid out, with planting. Due to a successful bid for Community Capacity Funding, through Cornwall Council, Agile Properties has started commissioning the necessary surveys towards submitting a planning applications and to ensure the project is viable but this is a long process and has again thrown up issues regarding pipes and services below the concrete.
We have had some informal conversations with people living closest to the site and before submitting a planning application we will seek to engage with local people more widely.
This will be a very different approach to providing housing and, aware of the sensitivities of our landscape, we hope this small pilot site will enable local people and planners to assess whether we can support more homes like these, in our local community.
We hope later 2025 will see us progress towards submitting a planning application.
If you want to explore what Agile do, here is a link to their website: Agile Properties
Agile Brochure March 2023 – Take a look at this brochure to find out more about Agile, who we are working with.
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