A popular roadside cafe has closed unexpectedly and is currently being demolished to make way for housing.

The Surfer's Bakery at The Old Filling station on the A39 between Devoran and Perranarworthal at the end of the Bissoe cycle trail announced it was closing at the beginning month, earlier than expected. 

The site is due to be developed for housing with no room for the cafe to run alongside it, despite the cafe owners wanting to stay.

Announcing the closure on its Facebook page the cafe thanked its 'brilliant' staff but said it had explored every option and there was no choice but to go.

"Unfortunately we're going to be closing the doors to the cafe soon- last day of trading on the 1st of July.

"The site is due to be developed earlier than we were hoping, and with no room for a cafe to trade alongside the development into houses.

"We have a brilliant team of staff who have been loyal to our family business and worked right through the pandemic, and we desperately would like to stay and operate in the area.

"We've explored any options that we've seen to try and find a site to trade from, even land to put a pop-up site on with no luck."

"If anyone has any ideas as a last ditch attempt to save the cafe of where we could operate from then please PM us.

"We would like to thank all of our loyal customers who helped us through a very tough Winter, and again to our amazing team of staff who have supported us every step of the way."

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The closure has been greeted with dismay on social media.

"Everything that’s wrong with Cornwall in one picture," said Katie Wild. "A cafe at the end of a cycle trail that was so well used - always packed, reduced to rubble ready for houses. I haven’t looked at plans but with the view out the back I’m 99% sure they won’t be affordable homes."

Before it was Surfer's Bakery it was the Yummy Scrummy Bakery and before that it was a motor dealership Devoran Car Sales and before that it was a filling station but business dried up when the A39 was re-routed.

Planning permission was granted to Mr Philip Perryman of Polisken Farm, Trispen  in 2018 to build five three bedroomed terraced family homes on the site.