Plans to create a gated community housing five detached homes on the site of a former hotel and hospital on the outskirts of Falmouth are currently being considered by Cornwall Council.

Kryllas Manor on Roscarrack Road operated as a 14 bedroom hotel until 2008. Its owners had tried to sell it as an on-going business, but the premises was too small to be profitable in the modern market.

It became a registered hospital, specialising in adults with learning disabilities, in early 2010, but was not supported by placing authorities either locally or further afield, which led to its closure in October of the same year.

An application has now been submitted seeking outline consent, with all matters reserved, for the demolition of former care home and the creation of five luxury detached residential properties in a gated community.

In a statement accompanying the application it says: “The healthcare sector, which is largely government funded, has in the past two or three years been subject to significant price pressure. In three-and-a-half years, the current owners who are themselves national healthcare operators, have not identified a viable use in healthcare for the premises.

“It is too small for general residential care and a more specialist focus would require specialist skills which are not readily available locally. Discussions have taken place with a number of other local and national operators since the October 2010 closure, without success presumably because of the site’s disappointing history with the sector.”

Budock Parish Council has offered no objections to the proposed development of the site for housing however, members feel that a gated community would not be in keeping with the rural surroundings and would like as many of the perimeter trees to be maintained as possible.

An objection has been submitted by resident William Palmer who also does not favour a gated community. He said: “We feel that with five houses and the possibility of a minimum of ten vehicles, but more likely between 15 to 20, that the proposed development does not need to be gated.

“This will cause us unnecessary noise pollution due to the noise produced whilst vehicles wait for the gates to open and the same whilst leaving the premises. The gates will also be producing noise whilst opening and closing.

“The gates will probably open at least ten times in the morning and again in the evening. This does not take into account visitors, postal, parcel delivery and other associated visits.

“The area of Budock has a very low, closer to zero, anti-social and crime problem, so this also shows that there is not a need to provide gated housing in this area.”