A few million went to the Eden Project, The Falmouth University/Tremough, the doomed Aggiewood Studios, and the 'marvel' at Heartlands, but apart from er orbitant admin costs in London, Bristol, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth & Truro, where did the other £8-900m go, that were supposed to lift ordinary Cornish residents from the bottom of the UK & EU poverty league tables??? Hmmmm.... Wain Homes? Persimmon Homes? Anyone else involved in planning??? That's a lot of cash unaccounted for.... And whilst Messrs Chris Pomfret, Chris Ridgers and Michael Hicks promised "A vision of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in 2020" www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3622927/Post-2013-European-Funding-Building-on-Success.pdf A "damning" 2015 report found millions of pounds of European Union funding failed to create an expected 10,000 new jobs in Cornwall. The report found 3,557 jobs were created by the investment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33360841 That's the equivalent of £281,000 spent on each job created in Cornwall! Well done the LEP & Cornwall Council...! www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/eu-funding-cornwall-brexit-cash-746128 An angry letter from one Truronian: "Perhaps Greenpeace should consider awarding their Toxic Air Award (Cornwall), jointly to Persimmon Homes, Wain Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Phil Mason, given the council's own January 2015 report which listed much of Truro as having dangerously high levels of Nitrogen Dioxide; this, even before the new Local Plan was passed for 52,500 new homes in Cornwall - presumably with an average capacity of two cars/home, so over 100,000 new cars, many of them spending a lot of their time getting round a small, old, river & topography-limiting road network. Phil Mason oversaw the fantastic dismantling & dismembering of St. Austell town centre, whilst head of planning at Restormel. In their immense wisdom and with a clear disastrous precedent, Cornwall Councillors entrusted him with the same job for the entirety of Cornwall's precious landscape, both built and green. Are we seeing chaotic history repeat itself, as Mason himself admits to planning failure, after years of a 'clear vision' for the quiet village on Truro's outskirts, Threemilestone, heralding the total and systematic demolition of Truro's communities through out-of-control urban sprawl, which even the wild west pioneers of California might've been proud of; but they had a few more acres? Isn't it high time the Chief Planner admitted he is completely out of his depth, has, unwittingly or otherwise, allowed developers to pilfer and plunder our farms, greenbelts and ancient woodland, completely unhindered, and must quit and apologise to the Cornish public, as soon as a letter of resignation can be typed, and before he inflicts any more damage with more hairbrained schemes involving millions more of taxpayers' cash, to dig the council out of more future obscenely stupid planning situations? The developers have of course had help from Prince Charles' Duchy company-cum-estate, as well as Lord Falmouth and one or two others, but the complacency, arrogance and spinelessness with which our planning department and its sidekicks (eg. Rothwell/LEP, Betty, Taylor et al) has dealt with these social and environmental outrages should be punished forthwith, possibly with much ceremony (as a deterrent for future planning buffoons). www.change.org/p/cornwall-council-phil-mason-council-s-chief-planning-officer-has-failed-cornwall-and-must-resign I dream that this day will come sooner, rather than later, and before the developers' plans may finally reach their conclusion for Cornwall: Plymouth West. Regards, (A seething Cornish resident) PS Some 25-30 hospital wards have been closed around Cornwall, in recent years, whilst the population has increased nearly 30% since 1981. So perhaps Phil Mason could share his plans for Treliske and general health care, not least adult care, in Cornwall over the next 13 years? This, given that the 2010-2030 Local Plan - the very one he championed proudly in front of developers, in Newquay last year - will probably increase numbers again by a further 25-30%?!!! (550 to 700,000); then we can come back to the car and toxic air situation." Another supporter from St. Day wrote: "When you are an ex MP, a Lord and blessed with a gift of creativity, how do you use it? Simple! You create a farm! Create a farm, I hear you say? How? Well, you take a number of fields with nice river views on the edge of Truro, you get your Council to allow you to build hundreds of unaffordable homes on said land and then you protect a small bit of the land for growing things! Voila! A farm! and you make it known you are creating a farm then use the creation of a farm as leverage to get the planning! isn't that clever?!!"