A new bus depot, the conversion of outbuildings at a pub for use as holiday accommodation, and the creation of 22 new homes on the site of a former private school are among the planning applications being considered by Cornwall Council for our area.

GO CORNWALL has applied for a retrospective change of use of previously vacant land at Bodmin Business Park to a bus depot with temporary cabins and installation of bus wash and fuelling facilities.

PERMISSION has been applied for to convert an agricultural shed into a one-bedroom dwelling at Waylands Farm, Looe.

A NEW terrace could be built at The Watermark at Hannafore Road, Looe.

A planning application has gone in for change of use of the rear staff accommodation and creation of a new terrace. Richard and Natascha Garrard plan to convert the unused staff accommodation, which is set underneath five guest parking spaces, into two letting rooms with ensuite bathrooms and a kitchen/living area together with the creation of a terrace.

No changes are proposed to existing staff levels.

TWENTY-TWO homes are proposed on the site of a former school in Par. The application site is on wooded ground of the former Roselyon School. The main reception building is an undesignated heritage asset, originally built as a Victorian mansion house.

But it has been the site of antisocial behaviour, has some structural issues and is boarded up – the proposal is for the demolition of the buildings.

The development, by Legacy Properties Ltd of Newquay, would be a mix of three, four and five-bedroom properties on existing building footprints.

A PLANNING application has gone in for the conversion of two outbuildings at the Weary Friar, a 12th-century inn at Pillaton, into holiday lets. The Weary Friar Inn has a bar and restaurant and 13 en-suite rooms. A cottage in the grounds was converted last winter into the Friar’s Rest holiday let.

The application said: “There has been a strong demand for Friar’s Rest which has been occupied every single week between July and November 4….This is particularly helpful to the business given the challenging operating environment this year from COVID-19.

“It has made the business more able to withstand shocks to its external environment and we hope that the barn conversion would improve this further.”