Cornwall Council is welcoming a consultation launched by DEFRA asking for views on the council’s plan to designate eight more beaches as bathing waters.

The eight includes Tregonhawke beach in Whitsand Bay.

In Cornwall there are 81 designated bathing waters. Beaches that aren’t formally designated don’t have bathing water samples taken from them meaning there is no official data on the quality of the water at them.

You can complete the consultation, which runs until April 12, via consult.defra.gov.uk/water/designate-bathing-waters-in-cornwall/, by writing to

Bathing Water Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Area 3D Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR or by email to [email protected].