Our plans for Trelissick are designed to ensure it is fit for the future. These include making more space for nature, improving visitor access and continuing to protect the heritage of this wonderful Cornish estate.
As part of this work, we want to redesign car parking, create a new multi-use car park that would enable us to remove the need for overflow parking on historic parkland and preserve historic buildings from car encroachment.
Our original planning application was refused earlier this year. However, we have taken time to reflect on this decision to ensure we are working towards the right balance for people, nature and heritage at Trelissick. The car parks are only the first phase in realising a wider vision and we remain confident that these plans will safeguard Trelissick’s future. Having reviewed all the information, we believe the plans deserve further consideration, and have started the process of lodging an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate.
How will this effect the landscape and wildlife at Trelissick?
The new car park planned for Dicky Lane is intended to provide direct access to the northern parts of Trelissick and wider countryside. The area proposed is land outside of the Grade II* registered park & garden, of which much of the estate is designated.
These plans would also allow us to reinstate an area of registered parkland, currently used for seasonal overflow parking and help preserve historic buildings from car encroachment. By returning the heart of Trelissick to pedestrian use heritage can be enjoyed in a more natural setting.
The North Woodland is an area of former farmland alongside riverside habitat which contains some of the best spaces for nature. The plans include a 33% net gain for biodiversity as woodland, woodland pasture and parkland are restored. In total we will be planting over 200 new specimen trees and over 300m of hedgerow and Cornish hedges - creating new corridors for wildlife. Our much-loved orchard isn’t going anywhere and will be the key to showcasing heritage apple varieties, just as it was intended to do.
Will a new crossing be installed to access the estate?
As part of our car park expansion and greater visitor access to the north part of the estate, the Trust must ensure a safe crossing point for all visitors across the B3289. With extensive design, consultation and safety assessments we have worked with highways experts to develop a new crossing point to ensure safe access for everyone.
With the creation and separation of two car parks, visitors will be directed, and encouraged, to use either car park depending on the nature of their visit (House/Garden and Woodland/Countryside), which will reduce the potential for queuing traffic on this section of the road. Visitors will have new flexibility to explore the entire Trelissick estate if they desire - with the creation of new access across the public road, and multiple circular routes throughout the parklands and woodlands. A new cycle route through the estate will provide cyclists with an alternative to the main road making for a safer cycling experience and reducing road traffic.
