Two planning applications which will determine the future of Falmouth School's proposals to create state-of-the-art sporting facilities, are to be debated by town councillors on Monday evening.

Going before the town council's planning committee will be the school's own scheme seeking consent for a new all-weather 3G artificial sport pitch with fencing and floodlighting, a new sports pavilion building, new grass sports pitches along with new parking areas and internal roads on the former Budock Hospital site.

Also on the agenda are detailed plans being put forward by Westcountry Land and Falmouth School for a residential development of 104 new homes, 36 of them affordable, across the road on the school's former sports fields at Union Corner.

The sale by the school of the Union Corner land will pay for its sporting development. The school has financed and secured a 125 year lease on the Budock Hospital site and clearance of the land has already begun and is due to be completed in the next two months.

The facilities created as a result of the school's plans would be made available for use by the wider community. The artificial pitch would be capable of ten times the amount of use as a grass equivalent and the sports hub building would house changing rooms, fitness facilities and multi-use sport areas.

Falmouth's planning committee meeting starts at 6pm on Monday and will be held in the council chamber on the first floor of the Municipal Buildings on The Moor. Members will discuss the applications and then make recommendations to Cornwall Council.