St Keverne Parish Council has said it is "disgusted" at Cornwall Council's decision to make planning a paperless process due to the complications for local councils.

The council has said the changes will cause "severe" problems for parish councils to manage, with some St Keverne councillors still wanting paper plans, which will require an A1 printer, while others are happy to look at them electronically but want a dedicated page on the website.

They want the page to have clickable links for each application, and the council could end up following both routes for planning, meaning time is taken up by printing out plans and updating the website.

The council wrote: "St Keverne Parish Council is disgusted at the decision to make planning paperless with all the problems that it is going to cause Parish Councils to implement.

"It also thinks the lack of consultation is disgraceful, to say nothing of the back handed way in which it was pushed through."

Cornwall Council is moving to paperless applications from January 4 next year, with special arrangements for some parishes including St Keverne to make the change from April 1.

The authority has arranged for each parish or town council to receive a £700 grant.

At St Keverne Parish Council's October meeting several ways of coping with the switch to paperless planning, including projectors, laptops, and screens, which would involve plans being downloaded to the laptop in advance.

It was resolved, as parish clerk Grace Hatton works for several councils, that she buy an A3 printer and ask if the different authorities would share the cost.

The council has asked that planning agents and the general public send a copy of any plans to the clerk at the same time as they submit plans to Cornwall Council. Please send copies of plans to Mrs G Hatton, Clerk, Trenoweth Mill, St Keverne, Helston, TR12 6QN.