COUNCILLORS will be asked once again to consider a high-profile planning application that led to the local authority losing a case at judicial review.

All eyes on the Rame Peninsula will be on the East Cornwall Planning Committee meeting on July 12. Members are set to make a fresh decision on a planning application first submitted by a local farmer, Chris Wilton, in 2020, for a new home on land opposite the coastguard cottages near Rame Head.

Following the previous committee’s approval of the scheme last August, a campaign was launched by the Rame Protection Group, and a judicial review mounted. In May of this year a judge ruled that Cornwall Council had not provided adequate reasons for its decision to grant planning permission within the AONB, and had also failed to demonstrate that the decision was in line with local planning policy.

The decision taken in August 2020 was quashed by the High Court.

As the losing side, Cornwall Council was instructed to pay the campaign group costs of £35,000 as well as shouldering its own costs.

Now the Council will put the application before the planning committee again, a committee that following the elections in May, has a swathe of new members alongside four of the previous participants.

Should the committee be minded to approve the planning application, it will have to demonstrate clearly that the proposals “conserve and enhance the landscape, character and natural beauty of the AONB”.

The Maker with Rame Parish Council, which has nine new members following the May elections, has scheduled an extraordinary meeting to take place this evening (Mon June 28). There, parish councillors will hear a presentation by Chris Wilton about the planning application, and will decide whether to support or object to the scheme.

To see the plans visit Cornwall Council’s online planning register and use the reference PA20/03747