The Bodmin Community Network Area contains 7 parishes and a range of settlements. Bodmin town is the key settlement within this area, and acts as the local service centre to the smaller settlements surrounding it. Bodmin town also attracts workers from a wider area. Larger villages in the area include Lanivet and Blisland whereas smaller villages include Millpool and Withiel.

This page contains information on the Cornwall Local Plan Documentation relating to this area, the Place Based Plans, the current evidence base and the archived evidence base that sits behind the policy documents, and the progress documents relating to this area have made through Cornwall Council Committee structures.

Cornwall Local Plan documentation

The Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies Proposed Submission Version section on Bodmin set out specific policies for the Bodmin area and were developed as a result of consultation with key stakeholders and the local community at the Preferred Approach and Options Report stages. The Local Plan examiner questioned the need for separate policies for each CNA and these have been deleted from the current version and more detail added about places to the General Policies.

Place based plans documentation

The Bodmin Town Framework is a document that sets out the vision for the future sustainable growth, particularly economic growth, and regeneration of the urban area and immediate hinterland of the town. The consultation on the original Bodmin Town Framework ran from the 11th March to the 22nd April 2013 and a second consultation was undertaken from the 21st October to the 2nd December 2013.

Cornwall Council working in association with its funding partners appointed GVA Grimley Ltd and New Masterplanning as the lead consultants to prepare a masterplan for Bodmin. The process included a public consultation event into ‘Developing a Vision for Bodmin’ and a number of workshops where stakeholders have been able to discuss ideas and options for the Masterplan with consultants and officers.  The Bodmin Masterplan report: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 sets out two approaches to growth. Core Masterplan -  the market trends scenario and assumes that there is no significant new investment in infrastructure to support significant growth but sets out the key elements of delivering the vision through this process. It includes the Town Centre Strategy, Residential and Employment Strategy, Transport Strategy; and the Wider Masterplan - the longer term potential for growth that would require significant investment in transport infrastructure in order to meet the key elements of the Vision. It includes Growth scenarios and a Preferred Scenario.

Current evidence base

• Bodmin Place Based Topic Paper March 2013: aims to identify the key issues that need to be addressed for the Bodmin area; 
• The Bodmin Framework Evidence base;
• Settlement Profiles: a list of community facilities and services available in 2009 with some settlements updated to 2012: Bodmin, Blisland, Cardinham, Lanivet/Lamorrick, Nanstallon and Withiel; 
• Bodmin Growth Factors Profile Version 2: summarises the ambitions and constraints relating to growth in the area; 
• Bodmin Historic Environment Service Data Sheet: a data sheet per community network area outlining the characteristics of the historic environment and some useful sources of information;
• Bodmin Infrastructure Needs Assessment Schedule: presents key infrastructure programmes and projects that are required to meet needs in the Bodmin area as a result of the growth proposed in the Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies document;
• Bodmin Delivery and Investment Plan: Each place plan sets out projects to be delivered over the next five years and identifies those projects that are considered as being either ‘critical’, ‘necessary’ or ‘opportunity projects’;
• Bodmin Town is also specifically referenced in the Cornwall Employment Land Review, the Cornwall Retail Study, the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment and the Strategic Housing Market Assessment.

Information is available on the Bodmin area in other sections of the web site including:

• The Localism Team area for the Bodmin Community Network Area;
• Community Intelligence profiles on the Community Network Area Profile and Health Profiles.

Committee structure

The Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies and Bodmin Masterplan documentation has been through the following Committees:

• Planning Policy Advisory Panel: 26/03/2010, 19/11/2010, 21/01/2011, 24/06/2011, 04/08/2011, 07/10/2011, 27/04/2012, 28/09/2012; 
• Cabinet: 15/12/2010, 12/10/2011, 07/11/12.

Archived evidence base

• Bodmin Place Based Issues Paper Feb 2011 (Options Paper stage);
• Bodmin Place Based Issues Paper Jan 2012 (Preferred Approach stage);
• Bodmin Masterplan: Surface Water Management Plan Part 1, Surface Water Management Plan Part 2, Sustainability Appraisal Part 1, Sustainability Appraisal Part 2, Sustainability Appraisal Part 3, Sustainability Appraisal Part 4. Implementation and Infrastructure Report and Transport Strategy are available on request. Also Visioning Workshops 23rd April and 1st May 2009; Public Exhibition 24th June 2009 – Display boards (1, 2 and 3) and Summary of Responses; Stakeholder Workshop 25th June 2009 - Summary of Responses; October Masterplan Update; Stakeholder Workshop 6 November 2009 - Summary of Responses;
• Settlement Profiles: 2009 versions for Blisland and Lanivet/Lamorrick (Options Paper and Preferred Approach stages);
• Bodmin Growth Factors Profile (Preferred Approach stage);
• Bodmin Infrastructure Delivery Plan Schedule (Preferred Approach stage)