The new owner of a building that incorporates a Wetherspoon pub has applied to Cornwall Council to make changes.

Mr D Potter, of Under Wild Design and Development, wants to retain a pub / restaurant on the ground floor but add six hotel rooms on the upper floors and seven residential units towards the rear of the building occupied by The Hain Line pub, on the corner of Tregenna Terrace and Street-an-Pol in St Ives.

The building is thought to have formed the Hain Shipping Office from the 1900s to 1930s and later became part of a hotel. It was then a nightclub with two flats from the late 1970s up until approximately 2012.

At that time the building was acquired by J D Wetherspoon, and the two flats were reverted to a staff room and commercial kitchen.

A planning statement says: “The proposal seeks to retain a vibrant active use for the ground floor, with well-designed and high-quality hotel rooms and much-needed residential units on the upper floors, intended as to provide temporary and permanent accommodation for both seasonal and year-round employees in the local area.

“From a heritage perspective, the site is located within the St Ives Conservation Area. The subject building is not itself listed or recorded as a non-designated heritage asset. However given its age and traditional appearance that has been altered very little at the front aspect, it is likely to be considered a valuable and noteworthy building within the St Ives Conservation Area.”

The proposed residential units would be a combination of studio, one and two bedroom apartments.

For more details see the full planning application on Cornwall Council's planning portal, via its website, under reference PA24/06613.

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