The visitor attraction, live music and wedding venue of 20 years has strongly hit back and called for the concerns to be withdrawn.

The Beirut-born, London-based singer-songwriter rose to international fame in 2007 with his debut single Grace Kelly.

Global fans of author Virginia Woolf are horrified that the building of 12 flats could threaten to destroy the sea view across St Ives Bay to the lighthouse made famous by one of the 20th century’s ...