A campaign group battling to save a beauty spot from a controversial development has accused of 'walking away from the problem'. The campaign group fears a plan by Cornwall Council to install a lockable gate at the top of the steps to the beach below is just a way of washing their hands of the issue. The saga over access to the beach has been rumbling on for months.
Developers Living Quarter Properties has planning permission to build seven terraced houses above Whipsiderry in Porth, , a site previously home to the Paradise Hotel. However, concerns have been raised about the cliffs' instability after they were subject to three rockfalls over five months. The site saw a huge landslip on December 19 which caused tonnes of rock to plummet down the 200ft cliff face and onto the beach below.
It came after a previous cliff fall less than a month earlier on November 29. At the time, The Save Whipsiderry Cliffs campaign - which has held protests and even stopped work as part of its high-profile opposition to the development - said the cliffs had become “highly unstable” and predicted “much more” of it would fall. In April the developer submitted an application to to add rock bolts and meshing to the cliffs to help stabilise them.
stated that imagery from a drone survey showed the cliff face is currently unstable and that there is potential for further landslip if left in its current state. However, after saying Living Quarters Properties had failed to prove that its controver.
