Sheldon House, Falmouth what is happening with the apartments

Developers want to knock down the former Sheldon House Nursing Home in Sea View Road, Falmouth and replace it with 28 residential apartments with external landscaping, access, car parking and associated works.

At a meeting of Falmouth Town Council's planning committee last night, members voted to recommend approval for the application as they say the reduction in scale has addressed the council's previous concerns, subject to Conservation Officer support.

The application was rejected by the planning committee in March with one councillor saying part of the development looked like a "dog's dinner". But the developer had come back with a revised for block B which had been reduced in height which the committee was now happy with.

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The developer says the design for new flats responds to the topography of the site, as a cluster of buildings that relate to the size of the neighbouring blocks in plan.

"The buildings will be surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens. The existing boundary walls on Sea View Road and Pennance Road will be replaced with high quality stone walls and planting in keeping with the area," they say.

The majority of the apartments will have private spaces in the form of a balcony, terraces or private gardens. Each apartment will have its own private parking space.

However Falmouth Civic Society said that in any approval "all boundary wall treatments and hard/ soft landscaping should be conditioned subject to approval of full detailed coursing/ laying drawings and soft landscape plans to avoid another fiasco as happened on the Liner."

The original application back in March, before the amendments were made attracted more than 20 comments of objection on Cornwall Council's planning portal.

The final decision will be made by Cornwall Council's planning committee at a later date.