Planning Approval and Listed Building Consent for Basset Community Hub

We’re excited to announce that Basset Community Hub has received Conditional Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent.

The scheme will deliver a valuable new civic facility within Camborne, serving the local community and helping to sustain the wider Town Centre economy.

The site is located on Basset Road and lies within the Historic Town Centre Boundary. This site also sits with the Conservation Area and the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site which has informed the design process and consultation process to produce a scheme sympathetic to its setting.

The proposed design incorporates two Grade II Listed building; The Basset Centre and White House. A structural glazed atrium sensitively connects the two buildings together to form a central flexible engagement and events space which also incorporates a café, foyer, heritage exhibition experience including a new permanent home for the Trevithick Society’s Puffing Devil replica engine and a walled garden for community use.

Combining the Basset Centre and neighbouring White House sites within a single project ensures the long term future of the two important listed buildings that form an integral part of the town’s street-scape and heritage.

The Basset Centre will include an expanded Town Library, sensory library garden, youth provision, meeting spaces and flexible bookable rooms and rehearsal spaces.

The White House will host a new Cafe with back kitchen alongside office/co-working opportunities.

External enabling and repair works to the two listed buildings will begin as soon as next month with the new building works commencing the middle of next year.

The project is supported with funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Town Fund and Cornwall Council matched funding.