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Carlyon Bay

Village in United Kingdom

Field	Value
official_name	Carlyon Bay
civil_parish	Carlyon
country	England
region	South West England
coordinates
unitary_england	Cornwall
lieutenancy_england	Cornwall
hide_services	Yes
static_image	St Austell Bay and Black Head headland.jpg
static_image_caption	View from Carlyon Bay across St Austell Bay looking towards Black Head

Carlyon Bay () is a bay and a set of three beaches (Crinnis, Shorthorn and Polgaver) near St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 2 mi east of the town centre.

Between 1920 and the Second World War, Carlyon Bay was the site of the New Cornish Riviera Lido and large sports facilities. After the war it became known as the Cornish Leisure World. A large venue, the Cornwall Coliseum, opened in the 1950s, it hosted exhibitions, tennis tournaments and concerts by musicians, but lost its importance with the opening of the Plymouth Pavilions in 1991. The venue continued until early 2003 when only the Gossips nightclub remained open, until its closure too shortly after. The building stood, falling into disrepair, until demolition began in April 2015.

Since the 1990s there have been plans for development of homes and a resort complex.

The area surrounding the bay was a centre of the mining industry and is now a golf course. The South West Coast Path runs along the cliff top and across the golf course. The Cliff Head Hotel was established in 1934 and stood until its demolition in 2017. Carlyon Bay is also the site of the Carlyon Bay Hotel, which stands upon and overlooks the cliff top with views of the bay.

In 1979 a scene for the film Dracula was filmed at Carlyon Bay and in 1986 the music video for Is This Love? by Alison Moyet was filmed on the beach.

Polgaver Beach is used by naturists.

The large rock on the foreshore is known as Stack Rock

Redevelopment plans

View of Crinnis beach with the temporary sea wall.

The original 1990 planning permission for redevelopment into 500 homes was at first not realised, the main obstacle being the need for better sea defences.

In July 2011, Cornwall Council approved a new planning application for 500 luxury apartments and associated facilities. The private developers (originally Ampersand now called Commercial Estates Group [CEG]) were planning to begin work on the new sea defences in late 2011 and on the apartments in spring 2012. However, plans were put on hold in December 2012 and construction had not started by August 2014. There has been a lot of local opposition to the developers. One point of contention is two public rights of way through the site. At a public enquiry in June 2014 Cornwall Council recognised the existence of the rights of way, CEG has exercised its right to appeal and decision now rests with the Secretary of State.

Another point of contention has been the sea defences. The original 1990 plans proposed a large sea wall. Following local protests a public inquiry was held in 2006 which rejected the plans. A revised scheme was accepted in 2011 but construction has not yet started. Temporary sheet piling defences were installed in the early 2000s without planning permission, the developers were asked to remove them in 2008 but they have remained until 2014. A planning application for temporary defences was rejected in November 2013 and in May 2014 Cornwall Council resolved to take enforcement action for the removal of the temporary wall.

Permission was granted in 2015 for a new housing & leisure development.

Geography and geology

Carlyon Bay is surrounded by low cliffs and is divided into three areas: Crinnis, Shorthorn and Polgaver. Much of the sand on the beach is actually waste material from the china clay industry known as "stent". Cornwall Wildlife Trust has identified Shorthorn Beach (the middle beach of the three) as a site of national importance.

References

Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' {{ISBN. 978-0-319-23149-4
"History". Commercial Estates Group.
"History of Carlyon Bay's beaches". Carlyon Bay Watch.
[https://archive.today/20130505125242/http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Praising-20-years-Pavilions/story-13341623-detail/story.html Praising 20 years of the Pavilions], Plymouth Herald, 16 September 2011.
"Demolition work starts at Cornwall Coliseum". BBC.
Smallcombe, Mike. (19 July 2016). "There are plenty of nudist beaches around Cornwall...". West Briton.
[http://www.businesscornwall.co.uk/news-by-industry/tourism-sector-business-news-cornwall/new-carlyon-bay-plans-submitted-123 New Carlyon Bay plans submitted] {{webarchive. link. (August 6, 2011 , Business Cornwall, 3 March 2011.)
[http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/World-class-development-approved-Carlyon-Bay/story-12890230-detail/story.html 'World-class' development approved for Carlyon Bay] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-09-17 , This is Cornwall, 6 July 2011.)
[http://www.carlyonbeach.com/Who-Are-We.aspx Who are we?] {{webarchive. link. (February 12, 2012 , The Carlyon Bay Development.
The Carlyon [http://www.carlyonbeach.com/Next-Steps.aspx Next steps] {{webarchive). link. (February 12, 2012 , Bay Development.)
(6 December 2012). "Latest News - Section December 6th 2012".
"Public Access". Carlyon Bay Watch.
(6 May 2014). "Date set for Carlyon Bay beach front footpath public inquiry". Cornish Guardian.
(21 April 2014). "Carlyon Bay developers ordered to remove sea wall from Cornwall beach". Western Daily Press.
"Carlyon Bay plans approved by Cornwall Council". BBC.

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