Block Management in St Just
Block, estate and leasehold management for St Just. Compliance is tracked against Cornwall Council.
Managing a Block in St Just at a Glance
- Local authority
- Cornwall Council
- Authority type
- Unitary
- Building control
- Cornwall Council Building Control
- County
- Cornwall
- Fire and rescue service
- Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- South West Water
- Setting
- Inland
Who You Deal with in St Just
A block in St Just deals with Cornwall Council, a unitary authority, so building control, planning and housing enforcement sit with one body. Fire safety in the common parts is enforced by Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service. Communal water and sewerage is South West Water.
The Residential Stock in St Just
At the 2021 Census the Land's End division, which contains the whole of the St Just built-up area, held 3,214 households with 151 flats in purpose-built blocks, 50 in a converted or shared house, 26 in another converted building and 22 over commercial premises.
Flood Risk in St Just
St Just is the outlier in this research: none of the built-up area falls in flood zone 3 or zone 2, and no Environment Agency flood warning or alert area covers it. The nearest are the west Cornwall rivers area and the north coast area from Land's End to Chapel Porth, and neither reaches the town. It is not a priority community in the council's flood risk management strategy either.
For a block that reaches leaseholders through the insurance premium and excess, and through the management pack when someone sells.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in St Just
One area covering the town, designated on 5 October 1972 and amended on 26 June 2002, though the council's own conservation area statement says it was designated by the county planning authority in March 1972; both are council sources and they disagree. The adjoining Nancherrow and Tregeseal area, designated in December 1995, is separate and not the town centre.
The town sits inside the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, in the St Just Mining District, which is area A1 on the official site.
Consent has to precede the Section 20 specification, not follow it, or leaseholders are consulted on work that cannot lawfully be done as described.
Radon in St Just
Class 6 of 6 across all four kilometre squares covering the town, where the maximum radon potential is greater than 30 per cent of homes above the action level. This is the highest band the map publishes, taken from the live UKHSA and BGS service rather than the 2007 atlas image.
In a block the part worth attention is the enclosed communal space at or below ground level: plant rooms, undercrofts, basements and bin stores. Measuring is inexpensive, takes three months, and the result belongs with the compliance record.
Licensing and Permitted Development in St Just
An Article 4 direction covers St Just, sealed on 30 March 1979 and approved by the Secretary of State on 13 August 1979, and its scope is unusually wide. It removes permitted development for extensions including dormers and porches, garages and stables, ancillary buildings over two metres high or eight cubic metres, walls, fences and gates, new highway access, painting previously unpainted exteriors, re-roofing in non-traditional materials, and replacing windows or doors with non-traditional materials or designs. Painting an exterior that has never been painted needs permission here. The direction also records that commercial properties and flats do not enjoy permitted development rights in any event.
This sits outside the lease entirely, but it still reaches us: satisfying the council is not the same as obtaining consent under the lease, and a leaseholder generally needs each.
Planning Policy That Affects Flats in St Just
Decided under the Cornwall Local Plan, with the St Just-in-Penwith Neighbourhood Development Plan made on 7 February 2022 after a referendum on 13 January 2022 carried by 950 votes to 225, 79.8 per cent in favour on a 31.78 per cent turnout.
Policy in an adopted plan is not guidance. It is what the application is decided against, and a consent granted under the lease does not substitute for it or vice versa.
Changing Managing Agent in St Just
Two questions stall most boards: who has authority to decide, and what happens to the money. The articles answer the first, the management agreement's notice clause the second. On St Just heritage stock the consents history is what most often turns out to be incomplete, and its absence resurfaces later as a planning problem.
See the handover sequence in full, and our fees, which are a fixed annual amount with no commission on contractor work.
Service charge or accounts query? Email accounts@plymouthblockmanagement.com and quote your development and flat number, or .
St Just Questions
Which Council Does a Block in St Just Deal With?
Cornwall Council Building Control. One body, so building control, planning and licensing sit together.
Who Enforces Fire Safety in the Common Parts in St Just?
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in St Just?
South West Water. A communal supply is the building's contract, not a leaseholder's, so report a loss to common parts through us.
Do We Need Consent for External Works in St Just?
On a listed building or in a conservation area, yes, for much that would be permitted elsewhere. Get it before the Section 20 specification, not after.
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