A PROPOSED village site for two new houses is too small – and too close to a neighbouring cottage, says Cornwall Council.

An outline application submitted by Mr B Davy for land north of Myrtle House in St Ive Cross has been refused by the county’s planning department.

The applicant’s agent had argued that using the garden of the existing house would present a ‘windfall’ housing plot and help to satisfy local need.

The scale of the new housing had been reduced in the current plan, as compared to an earlier application submitted.

But Cornwall Council said that the proposed new dwellings would nonetheless ‘consume the site’ and would have a poor relationship to the existing cottage.