Plans for 150 homes in College Valley near Penryn have been supported by Budock Parish Council - within whose boundaries the site sits - following a promise of more public open space.

Councillors voted to support the plans after developer Richard Walker promised to hand over a strip of land in the valley bottom to the South West Lakes Trust or a consortium of local councils, however he will still retain fields below College Hill which are a source of much concern to Penryn's own councillors.

Budock Parish Council chairman Phil Hart said: "He said they have amended the application slightly, in as much as they have now given a couple of acres of land to be used as public spaces, which wasn't on the application when we received it."

He added that the council and developers had a "long conversation" covering points such as traffic using Hill Head, which Mr Hart said would be managed with the addition of pavements, pinch points to slow down traffic at the narrowest sections of the road, and traffic lights at the junction off Eastwood Road.

He added: "We were aware that the parcel of land had been identified by Cornwall Council for development anyway.

"Everything we came up with Mr Walker or [project manager] Damien Burley answered. It was nice to have an applicant who has taken notice of what we have said before.

"We supported the application, and questions we had were answered."

He added: "It was all in our parish, it didn't really affect Penryn at all as such," although he added that there would be a lot of people using the town's facilities.

Local Cornwall Councillor John Bastin said he thought the concept presented to the parish council was "a lot more acceptable than at the Penryn meeting.

However he added: "I'm very concerned that Budock seems to be taking the lions' share of all this development."

referring to the plans on College Hill, which follow similar schemes all along the western side of Bickland Hill and Bickland Water Road, he said: "Budock seems to be overloaded."

The plans, named College Farm, are for 150 homes including 35 per cent affordable housing, to be built between College Hill and the Penryn bypass, with one road access point onto Hill Head.

Concerns had been raised at a meeting of neighbouring Penryn Town Council that, having removed several lower fields from the scheme and not identified them as public open space, Walker would then seek to develop them at a later date.

Those fields, which fall within Penryn, have not been identified for any use in the new plans.