Residents on the Rame Peninsula have shown their opposition to new properties becoming second homes.

Five parishes, Millbrook, Maker with Rame, St John, Sheviock and Antony, have worked together to produce the Rame Neighbourhood Plan.

Their aim was to give clear planning messages about what sorts of growth are, and are not, acceptable to local people – and to find common ways forward.

One of the key policies of the plan is that new houses must either be lived in for 300 or more days a year or must be for the purpose of holiday letting.

New development would only be permitted, states a further policy, ‘where the infrastructure and community facilities needed to serve it either adequately exist in advance or will be provided as part of the development’.

Cornwall Councillor George Trubody, who has taken a leading role in preparing the plan, said: ‘The Rame Peninsula is one of the most beautiful and iconic areas in the country and this document will help preserve and enhance all that is great about Cornwall’s Forgotten Corner.’

The plan has to go through further stages before being finally adopted.