Another broken promise by our council, and worse still, after Phil Mason publicly acknowledged that the Threemilestone-Treliske-Truro Western Corridor development strategy was a (very expensive) "mistake", he now wants to borrow £600m including several million for the public to pay for a new stadium. Presumably so he and the developers can justify building over every farm west of Truro.... From another petition site: www.change.org/p/adam-paynter-stop-cornwall-council-spending-our-money-to-subsidise-developers? "Cornwall council wants to spend millions of pounds of our money helping INOX to build houses at Langarth because INOX can't make enough profit from the houses, because of the high infrastructure costs, the council want to pay these costs. A Councillor has estimated that the affordable homes promised will cost the council £800,000 each to build. Langarth is obviously the wrong place to build homes because of the high costs but the council wants to spend the money in the hope that it will lead to the building of the stadium. This is despite the full council voting that no public money should be invested in the stadium and council promises that no taxpayers money would ever go into the stadium. The stadium is clearly expected to be a loss making venture since no funding can be found. Let Cornwall council know that investing our money to boost the profits of property developers is unacceptable. More homes at Langarth means more traffic congestion, more air pollution, more delay for the Emergency services and even more problems for Treliske hospital which already suffers from too much demand. We demand that no public money be invested in housing or the stadium at Langarth as voted by the whole council." www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stadium-cornwall-wants-6-million-1109899 Let's not forget why Truro City FC are being evicted from their Treyew Road ground: because a greedy little out-of-town developer (Kevin Heaney's Cornish Homes) who badly scared Truro, managed to deceive the gullible trustees into handing over land that was OURS, and which was then caught up in his bankruptcy proceedings. Why have trustees if you can't trust them with anything?!! Now another developer that has options on farms west of Truro within Phil Mason's development "mistake", wants us to cough up another £6m to accommodate their ill-thought through plans for more greed-based housing and retail, on an area of the A39/A30 already beyond congestion! The new Truro college pool at Threemilestone cost £8m, some 20 years ago; how on earth do they think £14m today (let alone when work begins) will build a state of the art 6000-seater stadium + facilities at Langarth, especially when we know all sewerage from any development up there will have to be stored then shipped across Truro to Newham, for proper disposal, at huge cost to taxpayers (among other problems)??? This is another developer's scam to save face and cash - mainly cash - and their inside man, Phil Mason, is on hand once again, to hoodwink gullible councillors into adding to the monumentally badly managed council debt, and provide a quick fix £6m to help a developer's profit margin, and which will no doubt double once the work begins; a little like Cormac's sudden £4m "surcharge" at Tregurra, as soon as works began there, to concrete over Prince Charles' beautiful and timeless valley. As Truro Civic Society said about the dark Prince and absentee landlord: what a hypocrite! A recent letter from a concerned St. Austell resident to the council: Sent: 17 December 2017 19:28:11 To: Martin Colin CC Subject: Shadow Accountable Care System Dear Colin I am writing to you to object in the strongest possible terms to NHS Kernow becoming a shadow Accountable Care System. I have only recently found out about this and I have tried to find out as much information as I can to try and weigh up the pros and cons. Thus far, I can safely say, I haven't found any pros and far too many cons for my liking. I will start by saying that the NHS, as a whole, has been severely underfunded by this government and previous government's. So much so, that it's now in crisis and it's clear this can be perceived as being done deliberately. When I say 'clear' I mean that now that Accountable Care Systems/Organisations have come to light, it's 'clear' that this is what was always intended once the NHS had been deliberately starved of money so that it cannot deliver the intended service. I know that the Care Quality Commission found a number of issues with NHS Kernow ranging from quality of service, poor care, poor experience of moving from hospital to care home/home etc. Granted, Treliske is struggling to cope, it's on near constant black alert but this is not only down to underfunding it's also because our Community hospitals are closing by the shed load which puts enormous strain on Treliske. It's also because Treliske has a limited number of beds and, as your all aware, our population in Kernow is forever growing. The reason its growing is because of in migration (housing being marketed over the Tamar) and the level of development kernow is seeing thanks to the Local Plan. It doesn't take a genius to work out that more housing = more population. Just to clarify, NHS Kernow is failing because of underfunding, Community hospitals closing and continually building houses which = growing population. Which ever heading guise is used, a shadow Accountable Care System is a way of privatising NHS Kernow and, given what I have already stated about the NHS here, it's not going to work. The NHS will NOT suddenly become this well oiled, fully functioning system. The myriad of problems will still exist. The main one being that there just isn't enough beds in Treliske to accommodate Kernow's growing population. I urge you to rethink NHS Kernow becoming an Accountable Care System. To look objectively into all the issues here in Kernow that are impacting on Treliske and to also consider the level of deprivation here. Please explain to me the thinking behind kernow becoming an Accountable Care System because I fail to see any benefit for the peoples of Kernow. Kind regards"