What's the term for "beyond black alert"? Whilst some admin staff are paid handsomely six-figure wage packets for running a failing hospital (not quite as much as the Chief planning officer), the crisis deepens, despite already being at rock bottom. Meanwhile, more allegations of intimidation and bullying at Cornwall council. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/pressure-hospital-staff-treliske-cornwall-719502 www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/royal-cornwall-hospital-wages-pay-700873 www.burringtonestates.com/2017/06/planning-permission-achieved-85-new-homes-trispen-truro/ From petition supporters: "Everywhere you go in Cornwall see building sites, going up all over the place around Pool/Illogan and 85 just started at Trispen, plus a massive KIER site opposite Hayle football club. Newquay is almost joined with Quintrell Downs and what about Goonhaven. These are only a few of the places I have travelled around recently. When will we run out of building land - perhaps we need a new town on Bodmin Moor!" "Where are the jobs for all these households that are being encouraged to move into Cornwall because most of the locals can't afford them. So they're bought by incomers or portfolio holders to rent to housing benefit claimants (who tend not to be paying council tax, income tax, NI or full electric/water etc bills) increasing the burden on the income tax and council tax payers!" "11000 houses for Newquay in next 8 years; thousands more being built Saltash Launceston Truro Bodmin. Cornwall is nearly gridlocked the mass immigration in the Home Counties are pushing people this way, the work is not here." "I cannot imagine how Phil Mason landed the job of chief planning officer. So far as I can ascertain he has not achieved anything in Cornwall that has benefitted local communities. It begs the question -did he ever achieve anything in his career? Perhaps he got his job on the basis that he never stepped over any political boundaries whatever the cost to local people." "Bodmin is a shambles except the shiny new council offices. Cornwall council have an amazing ability to balls up everything that they do. Unless it directly benefits cornwall council." "Cornwall council are a joke. We have offered a parcel of land in West Cornwall for affordable housing four years ago and that keep turning it down." "I would like to shake the instigator of this petition by the hand! I received a link to it by email this evening. Can we take these bent buggers on though? Someone in our village has been bullied by them for trying to stand up and speak out. And these people are supported by OUR council tax!!! I tell you, the councillors are scared of the employees and my local councillor has told me that and was shaking in his boots when he said it. Cornwall Council = the Gestapo sponsored by land so called developers." "Just saw this petition. At long last! Someone standing up against Cornwall Council. Let's say this, the corruption inside this local authority is unbelievable and more and more are speaking out. One thing though, how do we stand a chance against such a self serving, nasty organisation in the face of their corporate bullying? Step out of line and they get heavy. It needs an investigation of the internal workings, the Cormac set up and their in house legal bullying office. Try and take them on as an individual and they come for you. Incidentally, try asking how many of their elected members fail to pay their council tax, take backhanders on planning projects and the like! Then there is the planning officers themselves! They have caused me years of misery. Cornwall Council - the most rotten of rotten boroughs!" "Truro’s character has gone, its rural identity ruined. Grass verges filled with flowers gone, hedges and wildlife habitats within a stone throw of the city gone and hundreds of trees cut down to make way for hundreds of bland cheaply built houses with no thought to the carbon footprint. No more hospital beds, traffic chaos and children being bussed to schools already over subscribed. Hang your heads in shame cornwall council, you are solely responsible." "You won't get a straight answer out of CCC, they are toothless and only interested in there own pay packages and pensions, Cornwall comes a poor second. It might seriously become time to withdraw paying our council tax as a protest against our reduced standard of living due primarily to the planning dept allow uncontrolled development by money grabbing developers. After all the students in Falmouth don't pay any nor the landlords making huge profits." Nice to see our expensively run council held in such high esteem... Still to come, we'll share some thoughts on this potentially explosive report: https://cornishstuff.com/2017/10/30/what-cornwall-thinks-well-tell-you-details-of-the-report-council-didnt-want-you-to-see/