Pre-application advice is being sought in respect of two new buildings to support mining activities at New Cooks Kitchen Shaft, South Crofty.
St Cornish Metals is seeking pre-application advice to build a two-storey building and a single storey building on what is considered derelict land at Bartles Foundry at South Crofty Mine, on land currently occupied by a Cornwall Council depot, Dudnance Lane, Pool.
In due course, a Planning Design and Access Statement will be submitted in support of a full (major development) application for planning permission.
The proposed development would involve the demolition of the three existing buildings on site and the building of two in their place.
Building one will consist of a two storeys with a maximum footprint of 1750m2 while Building Two will consist of a single storey engineering/stores building, with an outside laydown area, up to a maximum area of 4,250m2.
The ground floor of building one will contain a reception lobby area, miners changing room facilities for up to 200 people (including clean and dirty areas), with showers for up to 48 people (at any one time), toilet facilities, a medical room, lamp room, briefing area for shift bosses and offices for underground production.
The area possesses one of the highest-grade undeveloped tin resources globally, and has a very long history of mining, with the first recorded production starting in 1592 and continuing up until 1998.
The old buildings due for demolition (Image: Stride Treglown/Cornwall Council)
The underground permission area covers 1,490 hectares and includes 26 former producing mines. Current infrastructure on the site includes four usable vertical shafts and a 300m decline.
The application site is at Bartles Foundry – adjoining the South Crofty New Cooks Kitchen shaft between Pool and Camborne in Cornwall.
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Bartles foundry was established in about 1860, casting an assortment of both cast iron and brass items for the mining industry, and continued in use until 1951. It also manufactured direction posts and street furniture.
The area possesses one of the highest-grade undeveloped tin resources globally, and has a very long history of mining, with the first recorded production commencing in 1592 and continuing up until 1998.
An aerial view of the site outlined in red (Image: Cornwall Council)
The underground permission area covers 1,490 hectares and includes 26 former producing mines. Current infrastructure on the site includes four usable vertical shafts and a 300m decline.
The site consists of previously developed land which formed part of the South Crofty Mine operations until its closure in 1998.
For more details see planning pre-application PA24/00605/PREAPP. https://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications
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