Planners approve modular homes for homeless at Long Rock

Cornwall Council's plans to install more one-bedroom modular units for homeless people on a site in Long Rock have been approved.

The application was unanimously approved by the council's west sub-area planning committee on Monday.

The units will be placed on the council-owned Cormac highways depot at Newtown in Long Rock, near Penzance.

There will be 18 units for former rough sleepers and a management and support building.

Planning officers recommended that the application be approved, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

In their report to the committee they said: "In terms of the benefits of the scheme, it is acknowledged that the scheme would increase the supply of specialist 'move-on' (rather than emergency) housing, which is an identified priority of the current housing shortage within Cornwall.

"The proposal has significant social and economic benefits by having purpose-built accommodation available, rather than the council using expensive and less suitable alternative accommodation as it does at present."

The existing two-storey building and structures on the site will be replaced and the modular units will be arranged in one single-storey row of six pods and a two-storey row of 12 units.

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