Last week the first bricks were laid at the Tolvaddon Contemporary Cornish Living site.

Works have begun for 38 new homes - the first to be built under Cornwall Council’s Contemporary Cornish Living scheme aiming to provide attractive, high quality homes that people can afford in areas of high demand.

The Tolvaddon site is one of two pilot sites being progressed by Contemporary Cornish Living, with the other in Bodmin on the former St Lawrence’s Hospital site. 

The Contemporary Cornish Living scheme will be rolled out to other sites across Cornwall with an ambition to deliver 1,000 homes by 2022.

The proposed housing developments will be self-financing.

The Council will use the money raised from renting and selling the homes to pay back the money it will borrow to undertake the developments.