Block Management in St Just
An Article 4 so wide that painting a never-painted exterior needs permission.
St Just sits inside the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, and that setting runs through the block, estate and leasehold management we offer its RMCs, RTM companies and freeholders. A 1979 Article 4 direction removes permitted development for re-roofing and windows in non-traditional materials and for painting unpainted exteriors. All four radon squares are class 6, while no flood zone or warning area touches the built-up area.
What We Would Put First for a Block in St Just
Check the Direction Before Cyclical Works
The 1979 direction removes permitted development for re-roofing in non-traditional materials, non-traditional windows or doors, and painting previously unpainted exteriors. We would obtain the necessary permissions before specifying any redecoration or replacement programme.
ConsentsTest Radon in Every Communal Space
All four one-kilometre squares are class 6, covering 100 per cent of the town, and the published advice is that measurement is advised. We would schedule communal-area radon testing for each block and file every result.
ComplianceSpecify Works for a World Heritage Setting
St Just lies in the St Just Mining District, area A1 of the World Heritage Site, and the Miners' Chapel is its only Grade II* building. For major works we would build that context into the specification and the Section 20 timetable.
Major works and Section 20Put the Clean Flood Position on File
None of the built-up area is in flood zone 2 or 3, and the three nearby Environment Agency areas overlap it at zero area. We would record that in the block's file and present it to insurers at renewal.
InsuranceManaging 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
What It Costs to Move a Block in St Just to Us
Management is a fixed annual fee, quoted for the building and agreed before we start. We take no commission and no third-party incentives, so the fee is the whole of what we earn from the building. Taking a block on carries a one-off start-up fee, set by size:
| Block size | Fee |
|---|---|
| Start-up fee, up to 10 units | £420.00 |
| Start-up fee, up to 25 units | £540.00 |
| Start-up fee, 50 units and above | £660.00 |
Taken from our published Additional Services price list, PBM Form #01-27 rev.6, effective 23 June 2025. All fees quoted are inclusive of VAT. See the full price list and how a handover works.
A 1979 Direction Controls Windows, Roofs and Paint
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. Cornwall Council's own Article 4 dataset lists a direction of 30 March 1979 covering alterations to houses in St Just.
Division Figures Overstate the Town Nearly Fourfold
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. The published division is called Land's End rather than St Just and it is three and a half times the size of the town, sweeping in Sennen, St Buryan and Sancreed, so quoting it would overstate the town nearly fourfold. Narrowing to the seven census output areas inside the built-up area gives 913 households, 28 per cent of the division, of which 80 are in purpose-built blocks, 8.76 per cent, nearly double the division rate, with 23 in a converted or shared house, 15 in another converted building and 12 over commercial premises. St Just is also the only town covered in this pass with no caravan or temporary accommodation at all, against 46 such households in its division.
No Flood Zone or Warning Area Touches the Town
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. Not one Environment Agency flood area overlaps St Just. Only three candidate areas exist within eight kilometres, the West Cornwall Rivers alert and two north Cornwall coast areas, and all three intersect the town's boundary at zero area, so every one is dropped as proximity. The other towns covered in this pass each have between two and four areas with genuine containment. St Just sits on the granite plateau above the flood system entirely, and for a block here the river and tidal flood question is closed.
Inside the World Heritage Mining Landscape, Area A1
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. One conservation area, designated on 5 October 1972, which is the earliest designation of the towns covered in this pass. An appraisal is registered against it, but the address Cornwall Council published for the document returns an error and four filename variants were tried without success, so the appraisal exists on the record and cannot currently be read. The equivalent document for Wadebridge at the same path resolves normally, so this is a broken link rather than a missing class of document.
21 entries on the National Heritage List fall inside the built-up area, none Grade I and one Grade II*, the St Just Miners' Chapel with its attached former vestry, piers and railings. That single entry is the town's only higher-graded building. St Just also has much the smallest built-up area of the towns covered in this pass, about a fifth the size of the others, and correspondingly the smallest listed stock.
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.
All Four Squares Sit in the Top Radon Band
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. St Just is the extreme case among every town covered on this site. All four one-kilometre squares over the built-up area are class 6, the top band, covering 100 per cent of the town, where the published wording is that maximum radon potential is greater than 30 per cent of homes at or above the action level and the advice is that radon measurement is advised. It is the only town of this group where every square reads the top band, and its lowest square exceeds Braunton's highest by at least six times. This is the Penwith granite, read from the live attribute values rather than from a map colour.
A 2022 Neighbourhood Plan and No Site Allocations
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. Decided under the Cornwall Local Plan strategic policies for 2010 to 2030, adopted on 22 November 2016. St Just sits in the West Penwith community network area. The council's site allocations document, adopted on 26 November 2019, covers ten towns and two eco-communities across Cornwall and St Just is not among them, so no site allocations apply here. No Article 4 position is asserted, because Cornwall Council has published no Article 4 records to the national register.
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St Just Questions
What Does the St Just Article 4 Direction Cover?
It was sealed on 30 March 1979 and approved on 13 August 1979. It removes permitted development for extensions including dormers and porches, garages and stables, larger ancillary buildings, walls, fences and gates, new highway access, painting unpainted exteriors, re-roofing in non-traditional materials and non-traditional windows or doors. It also records that flats do not enjoy permitted development rights in any event.
Is the Coastline Near St Just Being Defended?
No. The shoreline management plan from Rame Head to Hartland Point places this stretch in a single policy unit named undefended cliffs, running for 56.59 kilometres, with a policy of no active intervention across all three epochs. There is no named, dated or costed scheme, which is consistent with that policy, in contrast to Wadebridge on the same plan.
Why Do Census Figures for St Just Look So Different?
The published Land's End division is three and a half times the size of the town and includes Sennen, St Buryan and Sancreed. The seven output areas inside the built-up area hold 913 households, 80 of them in purpose-built blocks, 8.76 per cent, with 23 in a converted or shared house, 15 in another converted building and 12 over commercial premises.
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