Andrew George MP and St Ives Residents deliver protest file to Deputy PM in Fight Against “Inappropriate” Holiday Development  

Andrew George MP and St Ives Residents deliver protest file to Deputy PM in Fight Against “Inappropriate” Holiday Development  

Local MP Andrew George arranged for St Ives campaigners against “inappropriate” development to deliver a powerful protest to the Deputy PM, Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in London today. They handed over a weighty protest file and letters of objection following the decision to approve a new Hotel on the site of the town’s last care home.  

Commenting, Andrew George said: 

“I support St Ives campaigners who are challenging the inappropriate development of its last remaining care home.  

“The planning proposal is clearly contrary to the very carefully prepared St Ives Neighbourhood Development Plan. Its size, scale, location, and impact on the adjoining neighbourhood are not supported by NDP policies. There is insufficient infrastructure, including limited and highly contested parking spaces within the area. The location does not lend itself to adequately accommodate such a proposal.  

“St Ives has become overly dependent on tourism. There are few facilities – including care homes – available for local people and the housing market operates almost as if locals shouldn’t live there anyway.  

“For me, it’s an important matter of principle, that local communities which have carefully drawn up plans within the national planning policy framework should have their planning policies respected, and not blithely overridden as they have been in this case.  

“I’m asking the DPM to use her “call-in” powers. Though she would effectively be “calling-in” her own decision, it would be justified on the basis that it appears she may have been misled by her inspector.”