The latest appeal hearing into plans to build student accommodation, this time at the former Coachworks in Falmouth's Penwerris Lane, will be held on Wednesday, February 21.

An inspector from the national Planning Inspectorate will oversee the proceedings, which will take place at Falmouth Rugby Club, starting at 10am. The application from AGR Living Falmouth Ltd seeks consent to build 134 student rooms in three blocks of three, four, and six storeys, with a student common room, laundry and management office. There is no on-site parking proposed - just two drop-off spaces and a cycle storage facility.

The scheme was refused by Cornwall Council in May last year because it does not conform to the council's Allocations Development Plan Document, which sets out a plan led approach to development.

It had been recommended for approval by the case officer, but councillors went against his advice, much to the delight of many local residents who fear the parking and traffic chaos the development would, in their opinion, bring to the area and the negative impact it would have on Falmouth and it's residents.

It is thought the council will not be defending its first reason for refusal, ie not conforming with the DPD, following the success at appeal for developers behind student accommodation blocks at Ocean Bowl, the Rosslyn Hotel and Fish Strand Hill.

This has led members of the Penwerris Ward Residents' Association to announce they are going to lead a "peasants revolt" and attend the hearing to state their case.

"Penwerris Lane is a narrow street, permanently filled with parked vehicles of every kind and, as every resident knows, there is no enforcement of traffic or parking regulations in the residential streets of Falmouth," they day.

"Cars, vans and lorries can be seen everywhere, parked on double yellow lines, on pavements and on dangerous corners. Yet, the highways report attaching to the planning application on the Old Coachworks site cited that there would be no safety concerns resulting from an additional 135 residents and their cars, plus deliveries, due to speed humps and 20mph signs."

They add: "Falmouth is fast becoming a seaside town peopled mostly by a transient community of students and tourists in the summer."