Plans to demolish two homes in one of Cornwall’s most expensive seaside residential roads and replace them with two blocks of flats have been thrown out, writes Richard Whitehouse, local democracy reporter.

A planning application went before Cornwall Council’s central sub-area planning committee yesterday to pull down two detached homes on Sea Road in Carlyon Bay and replace them with 23 apartments.

The proposal had come from developer Acorn Blue but was refused unanimously by councillors.

It comes just a month after another plan further up Sea Road which proposed bulldozing a bungalow and replacing it with an apartment block was also rejected.

The Acorn Blue plans were to demolish the two homes which sit next to the former Cliff Head Hotel which has also been pulled down and replaced with apartments.