August 2025
Notice of publication of the proposed Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Development Plan – PA25/00001/NDP
Proposal – Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Development Plan
Details – Callington Town Council has submitted its proposed Neighbourhood Development Plan to us for public consultation and independent examination. The plan area covers the parish of Callington. The Neighbourhood Development Plan includes policies on housing, character, community facilities, transport, employment and sustainability. Once made, these policies will be used to determine planning applications locally along with the Cornwall Local Plan.
View the notice here.
February 2025
Submission of Neighbourhood Plan to Cornwall Council for Legal Compliance Check
Following the consideration of consultation comments submitted at the Regulation 14 stage the Neighbourhood Plan has been updated where it was considered appropriate to do so. Following this the Plan was submitted to Cornwall Council on 30 December 2024 for a legal compliance check to determine if it can proceed to the final public consultation, known as the Regulation 16 Consultation.
The submitted documents can be viewed here:
Callington & Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Development Plan – Regulation 15 Draft (December 2024)
Basic Conditions Statement (December 2024)
Consultation Statement (December 2024)
Sustainability Statement (December 2024)
Subject to the Plan being found to be legally compliant, Cornwall Council will carry out the Regulation 16 Consultation. This will run for a period of 6 weeks. Following the Consultation, the comments received will be passed to an Independent Examiner, to be appointed by Cornwall Council, who will consider the representations and determine if the draft Plan should be put to a community referendum.
July 2024
Redmoor Minerals Limited and Cornwall Resources Limited – Response Regarding Mineral Rights
During the course of the Regulation 14 consultation on the Draft Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Plan some issues were raised regarding mineral rights and the potential for these to impact on the ability to develop some of the proposed allocation sites. Following this the Town Council have liaised directly with Cornwall Council and Redmoor Minerals Limited and Cornwall Resources Limited regarding mineral rights. The letter below has been provided by Redmoor Minerals Limited and Cornwall Resources Limited in response to the issues that have been raised.
240301 Callington and Kelly Bray Development Plan – CRL Letter
Mineral Exploration Areas – A3
October 2023
Pre-Submission Consultation (Regulation 14) on the Draft Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Plan
Following on from the adoption of the Vision for Callington and Kelly Bray in February 2020, the Town Council, Steering Group and consultant team have been working to develop the Neighbourhood Plan. The Draft Plan is now ready for pre-submission consultation. This is also known at the Regulation 14 consultation.
We would like to hear what people think about the document. After considering the comments received and making any necessary modifications, the Neighbourhood Plan will be finalised and submitted to Cornwall Council for Independent Examination. If the Examiner finds the Plan to be satisfactory, then Cornwall Council will arrange for a referendum to take place. This will allow local people to decide whether the Neighbourhood Plan should be used to help decide planning applications in the area in the future.
Jo Taylor, Clerk to the Town Council said “The Neighbourhood Plan provides an opportunity for local people to have a say in how the area is going to shaped in the future. After a lot of hard work, the project is very close to being completed. We now need your views on the Draft Plan and to know whether you would like to see any changes made before it is submitted for independent examination”.
The consultation ran from Monday 2nd October 2023 to Monday 13th November 2023. The Draft Plan and consultation documents can viewed below. There was also a display in the Town Hall for the duration of the consultation.
Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Plan Pre-Submission Consultation Draft (Regulation 14)
The consultation panels that were on display in the Town Hall can be viewed here:
Pre-submission (Regulation 14) Consultation Panels
The following documents have also been prepared:
Callington and Kelly Bray Design Guide (May 2023)
Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Plan Site Assessment (February 2023)
April 2023
Cornwall Council SEA and HRA Screening Decision
Cornwall Council confirmed in writing that the Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Development Plan is unlikely to have significant effects on the environment or on European Sites and that Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) or Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) is therefore not required.
The Council’s letter can be viewed here.
October 2021
Draft Neighbourhood Development Plan
The Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Development Plan will guide and influence future development in the area to 2030. Its preparation has been led by members of the community and prepared following the adoption of the Vision. The current version of the Draft Plan can be viewed & downloaded on the pull out menu to the right.
The Draft Plan was approved for submission to Cornwall Council by the Town Council on 22nd June 2021 for officer feedback and Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitats Regulation Assessment Screening Opinion. The request for a Screening Opinion was submitted on 7th October 2021.
Once that feedback has been received (and any further changes to the document made) the Plan will be submitted to Cornwall Council and subject to public consultation. Following this it will be submitted for Independent Examination. Before the Plan can be formally adopted it will be subject to a referendum.
This Plan builds on the Vision, along with national and Cornwall planning policies, to give an extra level of detail at the local level. It has been developed to ensure that future growth and development
throughout the Parish is guided by the priorities and aspirations of the local community. Once finalised, and agreed by the community through a referendum, the Plan will form part of the statutory planning policy framework for the area. The policies will have equal standing with those in the Local Plan and will be given full consideration by decision makers.
The Plan’s policies will apply to the whole parish of Callington. This is known as the Neighbourhood Area and was designated on 7th March 2016, following a formal process, including community consultation.
February 2020
Vision for Callington and Kelly Bray
The Town Council adopted ‘A Vision for Callington and Kelly Bray’ on 25th February 2020. The Vision has been prepared to set out how Callington and Kelly Bray could change for the better in the future. The result is a strategy and series of project ideas that point to how things could be improved. These are set out in this document. The Vision is the first stage in preparing the ground for a Neighbourhood Plan for Callington and Kelly Bray.
Callington Town Council and the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group have worked closely with interested stakeholders and the local community between 2017 and early 2020, to find out what people think about the local area. This has resulted in the generation of many ideas that have helped to shape the Vision. The ideas provide a framework that is intended to guide and give focus to future change. The Vision does not provide a blueprint that will be followed to the letter but rather a series of proposals that if implemented will contribute towards stimulating positive change. By identifying where and how improvements can be made, Callington and Kelly Bray should be in a much better position to bid for funding and influence where scarce resources are targeted.
The Vision has been shaped by the people of the town – consultation has included: a town wide questionnaire; public exhibitions; many individual stakeholder meetings – representing different interest groups; Steering Group focus groups; a call for housing and employment sites; Steering Group housing sub-group sessions; Steering Group transport sub-group sessions; and a business questionnaire. Ideas vary in scale – but all are geared towards making a better and more beautiful place and addressing the climate emergency. The main objectives for local people are to create: a healthy and sustainable place to live; local job opportunities; a beautiful town centre; a stronger community; quality homes for everyone; and green transport.
Projects to address these objectives include for example: reducing the impacts of through traffic and HGVs in the town, and planting more trees; identifying sites to support existing and new businesses; enhancing Fore Street as the main civic focus of the town; supporting improved healthcare and education facilities and providing a new village hall for Kelly Bray; identifying sites for new homes and guidelines for how they can be designed so that they are attractive, locally distinctive and sustainable; and improving life for pedestrians (safe routes to school and safer and improved crossing points over the main road) and cyclists (new lanes) as they travel through the area.
The Vision also contains recommendations for the Callington and Kelly Bray Neighbourhood Plan. The Plan, when adopted, will provide a legal framework for managing development – supporting National Planning policies and the Cornwall Local Plan.