A planning application has been received for the conversion of barns on the Roseland Peninsula into a new café/restaurant run to be run by Philleigh Way Cookery School.

The new complex located in the farmyard at Court Farm, Philleigh, would also include several small workshops and retail units, a covered multi-functional space, new toilet facilities, new office accommodation and overflow parking.

There would also be a covered indoors area and an open outdoors area, which could be used by the community for local events and would complement a new riverside woodland walk.

An existing livery business would be scaled down, from approximately 35 horses to five. New office space would be offered to provide the local community modern office and meeting space, which the applicant says would reduce the need to travel to larger towns such as Truro, Penryn, Falmouth and St Austell.

Philleigh Way Cookery School opened in May 2013 on a site near the King Harry Ferry, and delivered courses, workshops and feasts. In 2018, the business was sold to current head tutor Rupert Cooper. July participants will learn how to make Portuguese pastries and Cornish pasties among other delights.

For more details about the plans, see PA24/04447 at Cornwall Council’s planning portal.