Plans form part of a long-term regeneration scheme within the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
Hawkins\Brown has secured reserved matters approval from Cornwall Council for the Hilltop at Hayle North Quay, a residential scheme forming part of one of Cornwall’s largest ongoing regeneration projects. Outline planning permission, subject to reserved matters, was granted in April.
The Hilltop is located in Hayle, and within the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. It forms part of a wider development that seeks to deliver new homes, a hotel, commercial and employment space, and community facilities on the historic harbour. The overall masterplan is intended to integrate the town’s industrial heritage with its coastal landscape.
The approved phase will comprise 43 detached and semi-detached houses. According to Hawkins\Brown, the scheme has been informed by the location’s historic and natural context, with the material palette, site plan and building forms intended to reference Hayle’s heritage.
Russell Brown, founding partner at Hawkins\Brown, said: “Hayle Harbour has an amazing history as an industrial site superimposed on a fragile natural ecosystem. It is a tremendous responsibility to find a way of making this unique landscape accessible without losing the sense of space or disrupting the natural backdrop to the harbour itself.
“To update the master plan has been a first step in what will be a long process of carefully weaving new homes into the complex levels of the restored dune landscape.”
The houses have been positioned using 3D terrain modelling to retain viewing corridors towards the cliff edge and the Towans dunes, aiming to reduce the scheme’s visual impact and maintain views from across the estuary.
All properties will have views towards the estuary from their main living spaces and external storage for bicycles or surf equipment.
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