THE retrospective replacement and relocation of a residential mobile home at a campsite near Bude has been refused by Cornwall Council.

The application concerned a mobile home on land to the South East of Cerenity, Lynstone, Bude.

It has been the subject of multiple planning applications, refusals and appeals in recent years.

In 2017, a certificate of lawfulness for the existing use of land for the stationing of a residential mobile home was granted (PA17/01383).

This was followed by a retrospective application for the siting of a residential mobile home with decking and associated works (PA24/03047) and later refused and dismissed at appeal.

The refusal of the application was followed by an appeal against the enforcement of the refusal. This was also dismissed with the inspector concluding that the development constituted a new residential use in a separate planning unit.

The applicant’s planning agent told Cornwall Council: “The site lies on the southern edge of Bude in open countryside adjacent to land that has been historically associated with the operation of a low-impact, seasonal campsite (Cerenety). The wider landholding includes a lawful mobile home and associated garden area, a toilet/shower block, and a wind turbine. Part of the land also benefits from permission for up to 20 seasonal tent pitches.”

The latest application seeks to move the existing unit and then replace it.

The planning agent also added context to the 2024 refusal, adding: “The appeal Inspector's conclusions focused on the planning unit and a new residential dwelling. The application now submitted seeks to remedy this concern by submitting the proposal as a replacement and relocation of the existing lawful dwelling.”

Bude-Stratton Town Council said it objected to the plans, telling Cornwall Council: “BSTC object to the retrospective application on the grounds that it the replacement mobile home is not on the original footprint and not the same scale. The original reasons for Cornwall Council objections have not been addressed.”

Refusing the application, Cornwall Council told the applicant: “The application site is located within the open countryside which is detached from the clearly definable settlement of Lynstone.

“The development carried out does not infill a gap in an otherwise continuous built up frontage and does not constitute rounding off in line with Policy 3 of the Cornwall Local Plan and as a result visually and physically extends the built form into the countryside, eroding the intrinsic character of the wider landscape, representing an undesirable and unsustainable form of development in the countryside that causes harm to character of the area for which no special circumstances have been suitably demonstrated in accordance with Policy 7 of the Cornwall Local Plan.

“The mobile home has been sited on a separate parcel of land to the previous Lawful Development Certificate granted under PA17/01383 and would not constitute a replacement dwelling and as a result would not be of an appropriate scale or character to the location.

“The Local Planning Authority has had regard to the presumption in favour of sustainable development set out in paragraph 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework (December 2024).

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“The adverse impacts arising from the unjustified encroachment of built development into the open countryside, the erosion of landscape character and conflict with the spatial strategy are considered to significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of the proposal when assessed against the policies in the Framework taken as a whole.”