The man behind the redevelopment of Porthleven Shipyard has hit back at those "continuing to whinge" after he was given the go-ahead for his plans at the fourth attempt.

Trevor Osborne saw two previous planning applications for his Innovation Building refused and a third withdrawn, before finally getting approval this morning. More here.

However, he said he was "exasperated" by what he described as the "tiny fraction of Porthleven" objecting to everything he did - including, he said, town mayor Andrew Wallis, who has spoken of his disappointment at this morning's decision by Cornwall Council.

Mr Osborne said: "I'm just sorry he's taken the trouble to demean the project when it's to the benefit of Porthleven and is wanted by Porthleven, just not a handful of people that follow him on Facebook and so on. I'm getting tired of his constantly negative attitude.

"We certainly don't want to spoil Porthleven. It doesn't make sense when I own a bit of it. These people think I've got some crazy desire to spoil what I love so much, which is just stupid.

"I get the same people objecting to everything we do and the amount is a tiny, tiny fraction of Porthleven - less than half a per cent of the population.

"People complaining, they're not criticising what I've done before, because they want it to remain as it is - who the hell made it like that? I'm exasperated by this continuing division."

He believed the plans had finally now been approved because "the professionals made it clear that this was a good application for the people of Porthleven" and councillors were "not overwhelmed."

"That's the very carefully considered opinion of professional people and Cornwall Council's planning committee. I think it would be better if the few people concerned would just accept that decision in good grace, instead of continuing to whinge in a negative way," he added. "I'm very pleased indeed. It's very, very good for Porthleven."

Mr Osborne said there was no date fixed for when work would begin on site as now permission had been given he had to "consider the timing of construction so as to not cause inconvenience to the village."

The building will include workspace for creative individuals and businesses. Responding to claims that the numbers of estimated jobs being created had reduced from 70 originally to 20 in this application, he said: "This is to provide an environment in which initiatives can prosper. It's to provide workspace which is flexible.

"I'm not going to underestimate the take up, nor overestimate. It's certainly not going to be less than 20 [jobs] and could possibly be as many as 70. I know there is a demand."

He is already now looking to his next project, saying: "Now that I've put this behind me and can plan to carry it out, I will be considering the next steps for the improvement of Porthleven.

"We've had the public presentation of the Arts Hotel and will now give my agreement to the architect to make that application. I'm very keen to get on with these things and not spend my time trying to correct some of the things that other people say." More on the Arts Hotel here.

He said he was already getting "very positive responses" to the light industrial units at Tolponds Road, which were given permission in July, even before they have been advertised. He added that he also had to decide when would be the best time to build these and the accompanying 120-space car park, which he said would not be ready in time for the 2019 Porthleven Food Festival or summer next year but he hoped would be in place for 2020.

You can read the mayor's response here