After Wain Homes first appeared on the Truro scene, some 20 years ago, trashing the first greenbelts and local farms with cheap and flimsy yet unaffordable plasterboard boxes, planners and councillors were naive or foolish enough to work with con man and crook, Kevin Heaney, who with "Cornish Homes", continued the deconstruction of Truro's close-nit community with more poxy rubbish; now it's Persimmon and Wimpey-Taylor's turn, and still the planners smile and continue to shaft Truronians with plans that benefit anyone except the town. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/truro-dead-no-one-lives-720355 But when other developers try to cash in on the easy, free-for-all, permissive mass development culture, aided and abetted by Cornwall Council's planning department, are councillors naive or morally bankrupt enough to really believe that the arrival of highly questionable Inox on the scene, would suddenly deliver the last Ark in the form of a Stadium for Cornwall?? www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-2022-15-projects-546810 More like the golden calf... with a giant headache guaranteed! Decades after the first promises were made, and as the supermarkets pull out and at least another developer walks away, Phil Mason has a master plan. Borrow millions more - adding to Cornwall taxpayers' already huge debt burden (approx. £2bn!) - and turn the beleaguered and sinking council into a rogue developer's partner in crime... Can this man make things any worse? www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/truros-biggest-developments-everything-you-690025 Meanwhile, the reality that Mason seems to miss, daily, hourly, continues to play out at our only major hospital: "...unbearably stressful working conditions and immense pressure on Royal Cornwall Hospital staff forced to make life-or-death decisions on a daily basis." www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/pressure-hospital-staff-treliske-cornwall-719502 Mr Mason, when will you wake up to the fact that people don't need dodgy deals with national sharks to build thousands of unsustainable, unaffordable, ugly and cheap homes, they need clean air, decent hospitals and surgeries, space in schools and on roads, communities and a smile on their faces, from maternity till long into retirement. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/tourists-leaving-cornwall-after-half-695937 Start working FOR your community, not for big business, big government and big money... Letter from an extremely concerned councillor: "I think today we have reached a “watershed” as far as my confidence in Cornwall Council is concerned. There have been two important “happenings” today: 1.    Ken Rickard has written an excellent article which has been published in today’s Western Morning News -  "Unitary authority a backward step towards Westminster rule” (page 10). 2.    At 10.0am this morning (3rd November 2017) there was a Members' Briefing held in the Council Chamber at County Hall. This can be found by going to “google” -" Cornwall Council - webcasts". The page will then come up - go to Archives - 3rd November - Members Briefings.   The first part is about the budget but it seems the “growth” bit starts a little before 11.0am as scheduled, because this is when Mr. Phil Mason, Director of Planning, starts his presentation to members.   You need to listen very carefully to everything he says because it appears that he considers everything that he and his department has done over the past 10 years has been “rubbish” (!!), but now they are going to do everything a different way.   It is proposed that Cornwall council will borrow some £600million to enable them to become developers, no doubt with the Council tax payers acting as bankers! You will see in the webcast that a councillor questioned whether this was an “ethical” use of public money. This is to enable CC to reach its present housing targets and more. I would envisage that Phil Mason's vision is to "concrete over” as much as Cornwall as he possibly can - I think it is called ”Place Shaping”.   I attended part of the meeting but I am going to view the webcast to be sure that I understood Mr. Mason’s message correctly. I cannot recall feeling so angry for many years ……. please encourage everyone to look at today’s webcast." If you'd like to know what "Place Shaping" Cornwall means, why not ask the chief planner yourself: Phil.Mason@cornwall.gov.uk