Plans for first part of development at Dolcoath (known as Phase 2)

Midas Homes is the Homes and Communities Agency's development partner for the Dolcoath Development and it will be building this mixed use scheme in Camborne. Outline planning permission was approved in October 2007 for 390 residential units, 4,812sqm of business floorspace, 2,467sqm of light industrial floorspace, community provision and open space. This scheme will also deliver the next phase of the East West link road, designed as a new avenue linking Wesley Street to Dolcoath.

An application for reserved matters was submitted in January 2008 to seek approval for the details of part of the first phase (1a). This includes a total of 95 dwellings of which 25 will be affordable, comprising 18 houses and 7 apartments. The remaining 70 units will be open market, comprising 52 houses in a range of sizes and 18 apartments.

The second reserved matters application for further housing was submitted in 2009 and approved in March 2010.  This provided for a further 93 units of which 24 are affordable.

Considerable work has taken place on site to deal with the remediation of the contaminated land including mineshaft capping and the complete eradication of the Japanese knotweed.

An additional project has taken place with an artist to develop a special work to be integrated into the development. This will commemorate the history and importance of the site. This will be funded by Midas Homes, the Homes and Communities Agency and will involve close working with a community advisory group.

The development is also detailed on the Cornwall Council website under planning number W2/PA09/00094/RM.  You can view this by going to the following page http://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/ and putting in the planning number W2/PA09/00094/RM in the 'keyword, reference number ...' box.  If you then click on the 'documents' tab and then on the 'view associated documents' link you will be able to see all the information relating to the approved detailed application.