Plans for a large park in the proposed Langarth Garden Village on the edge of Truro will go before councillors next week - but those running the city aren't happy.

Governs Park would be 35.92 hectares (88.7 acres) big and is a key area of open space in the development.

Langarth Garden Village is set to have up to 3,500 new homes along with other facilities including schools, community centres, shops, employment space and care homes. The overall scheme was granted outline planning permission last year and the new application for Governs Park is a reserved matters application covering access, design, layout and scale.

The application is set to go before Cornwall Council’s strategic planning committee this week (Thursday, February16) and has been recommended for approval by council officers. However, objections have been submitted by Truro City Council and members of the public.

Aerial view of the proposed location for the new Governs Park which would be part of Langarth Garden Village (Image: Google)

Aerial view of the proposed location for the new Governs Park which would be part of Langarth Garden Village (Image: Google)

A report to committee officers explained that the new park is a Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) which is “a recreational site created to attract residents of new developments away from designated sites that are protected for their valuable ecology and are sensitive to recreational activities such as dog walking (for example, Penhale Dunes)”.

The report states: “The proposals also deliver a significant public benefit of allowing access to currently private land and an appreciation of the Penventinnie Round Scheduled Monument and the countryside via a network of paths whilst ensuring the enhancement and ongoing management of both this designated heritage asset, the network of hedges and hedgerows and existing and newly planted woodland.”

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In recommending approval officers state: “The substantial public benefits outweigh the less than substantial harm to heritage assets that has been identified in relation to the breaches of hedgerows, installation of paths and the construction of the access road linking Governs Park to Fordh Langarth.”

Under the proposals there would be extensive pathways running across the park area and linking it to the rest of Langarth Garden Village. A small car park has been included as part of the plans providing 38 spaces.

Kenwyn Parish Council raised the size of the car park as part of its comments about the application, questioning whether it was large enough and claiming it would be “inundated”. They were also concerned about some of the access routes for the new park and about who would be responsible for the stewardship of the new area.

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Truro City Council said it unanimously agreed to object to the application due the absence of a traffic management plan and a management plan for the agricultural land. The city council also raised concerns about the amount of car parking being provided.

Walker Developments, which owns land at Willow Green that it is planning to develop, has also objected to the application stating that part of it goes through land that the company owns. The developer stated: “We suggest that the application should be withdrawn or at least held in abeyance until meaningful consultation with landowners can be affected.”

The planning application will be considered by the strategic planning committee when it meets at New County Hall in Truro on Thursday.