The company is registered and run from 14 The Strand, a few doors from the harbour. Newlyn is not a town we travel to for work. It is the town the work is planned and priced in.
Groundworks in Newlyn is shaped by a working harbour, a hill and the weather that comes across Mount's Bay at both of them.
This is one of the largest fishing ports in England, and the village behind it climbs hard. Granite terraces run up from the harbour and The Strand in tight rows, and the plots behind them are long, narrow and steep. That decides the method before anything else: the machine has to fit the gap it is given, the arisings usually leave the way they arrived, and the neighbouring wall is part of the job rather than next to it. Gwavas sits above, with Mousehole, Paul and Sheffield along and behind the coast, and Penzance begins where Newlyn ends.
The bay decides the rest. Salt in the air and rain driven straight off the water change what a concrete mix and a wall detail have to survive, which is why concrete in this position is specified against the exposure classes set out in BS 8500 rather than by habit. Cornwall Civils & Construction has spent its working life on this side of the bay, in a village whose art school made its name painting exactly this weather.
Newlyn work is mostly domestic in scale and technical in nature: old granite stock, steep ground and very little room.
Excavation, foundations and setting out on terraced plots where access is the whole problem, including small plant and hand dig where nothing else will reach.
Foundations, slabs, formwork and steel fixing, specified for a position this exposed.
Extensions, renovations and structural work on granite stock, including propping and steels. Matt is a mason by trade, so the build is not handed on after the groundworks.
Foul and surface water runs, land drains and soakaways on sites where the fall is generous and the space is not.
Terraced gardens, steps, garden walls and Cornish hedging on plots that fall away steeply behind the house.
Structures holding a level where a garden or a parking area has been cut into the hill above the harbour.
The company works from NewlynThe address on the paperwork is 14 The Strand, so a job in the village is not a trip out and the site visit is not a favour.
You deal with the director throughoutMatt Richards prices the work, runs the site and operates the machine, so nothing is lost between the person you spoke to and the person who turns up.
Specialist trades brought in by nameMasonry, drainage, propping and other specialist contractors from a network built over fifteen years, working under our contract rather than yours.
The price and the scope in writingWhat is included, in what order, and what would change it.
Working from the harbour puts most of this bay within reach of the office door. Matt assisted on Jubilee Pool in Penzance, the 1930s art deco lido along the front, where marine grade concrete and rapid set concrete were used and the programme was cut around low tide windows.
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Based on 5 Google reviews
Great company to work with. Professional, reliable and well organised from start to finish. Communication is always clear, sites are well run & the team are a pleasure to deal with. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them and look forward to working together again!
Read more on GoogleCornwall Civils have been working on a complex external works package for our project in St Ives. Their works have included an extensive concrete retaining wall, in-situ concrete stairs and an in-ground modular drainage system.
Read more on GoogleCornwall Civils handled a tricky concrete shuttering, steel work, and pour for us on an emergency job. They stepped in at very short notice and worked through nights and weekends to get it done. The quality of their work was excellent, and their commitment was outstanding.
Read more on GoogleI recently had the pleasure of working with Matry at Cornwall Civils and Construction, and I couldn’t be more impressed with the service provided.
Read more on GoogleOne further five-star rating was left on Google without a written review.
From The Strand, most of west Cornwall is ordinary working ground.
Tell us the address, the stage the site is at and what you are trying to build. If you would rather show us than describe it, we are a short walk away.
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14 The Strand, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5HN
Phone: 07958 102538
Email: info@cornwallcivilsandconstruction.co.uk
Hours: Mon to Fri 07:00 to 17:00 · Sat 08:00 to 12:00
Sunday: emergency call out only
Last updated: 22 September 2026
