A glamping business has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 in costs and fines after being found guilty of breaching an enforcement notice following a trial.

Marjorie Persaud, aged 72, and Stephen Roberts, aged 74, both of Trevarth Road, Carharrack, Redruth and Alex Persaud, aged 42, appeared at Truro Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

Both Persauds had pleaded not guilty to breach an enforcement notice - town and country planning act 1990 issued by Cornwall Council on October 21, 2021.

Falmouth Packet: The glamping pods were placed on wooden platformsThe glamping pods were placed on wooden platforms (Image: Lavendar Parc)

Alex and Marjorie Persaud were each charged that between June 18, 2022 and July 14, 2022 they failed to stop using land they owned in Wendron for glamping before June 18, 2022 and failing to remove from the land six raised deck platforms from the same area of land as instructed by the council’s planning department.

They were fined £180 each, ordered to each pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £74 and to pay costs of £2,000 each.

Stephen Roberts Person was charged with being other than owner of land carry on / cause / permit an activity in contravention of an enforcement notice.

He was found guilty of between June 18, 2022 and July 14, 2022 at Wendron as the person in control of land known as Land South East of Carnkie Farm (Lavender Parc), Underlane, Wendron, he failed on or before June 18, 2022 to cease the use of the land for glamping.

Falmouth Packet: Some of the pods were by a lakeSome of the pods were by a lake (Image: Lavendar Parc)

He was fined £120, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £74 and to pay costs of £2,000.

The site at Lavender Parc at Underlane in Carnkie near Helston, which includes three fields with two public pathways, was bought by Mr Persaud after lockdown.

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The eco-dome camping site used temporary 'glass domes' on wooden platforms to house guests and described itself as ‘Cornwall’s first open air hotel’.

However concerns were raised by local residents that the pods had been put up without planning permission and would change the shape of the village, leading to the issuing of the enforcement notice.