Truro Wreck Steamer Possible Delay

A Cornwall Harbors board report said the boat, which was previously a restaurant, cafe and music venue, had become home to rough sleepers.

In March, the council agreed to start the process of breaking up the £200,000 rowing streamer and seek match funding from Truro Town Deal council, while pursuing recovery costs from the boat’s owner, Porthia Ltd.

Paul Bent and Manti Tauren-Bent, of Treheveras Farm, Kenwyn, applied for permission to move Compton Castle onto their property to restore it.

Their application said the couple, both members of the Rowing Boat Restoration Society, wanted to lift the boat by crane, move it to their land and “renovate it to its former glory”.