Student flats plan for Falmouth industrial estate
A developer’s plan to house 200 students on a Falmouth industrial estate has not found favour with Cornwall Council officers.
Andrew Risely, of Penryn-based Sustainable Developments (SW) Limited, requested pre-application advice from Cornwall Council on his proposals to build student flats on land to the north of Tregoniggie Industrial Estate.
Office space and a coffee shop – part of a so-called “private Innovation Centre” – are also part of the scheme. Yet Mark Dawes, of CAD Architects Ltd, argues in his supporting statement for Mr Risely that “the development as designed will be disproportionately expensive to fund” as it was “conceived in a wholly different economic climate.” …