After the Richard Lander School U-turn (council promises no housing development on old site; now an expensive Taylor Wimpey urban sprawl across Higher Town), the Council drops another bomb shell: the proposed FREE stadium for Cornwall, will be publicly subsidised, initially they think, to the tune of £6 million. But hold on... they have raised another £8m (of which £2m from soon to be evicted TCFC), so the total cost of this fantastic new facility in the middle of Cornwall's biggest traffic jam will supposedly cost a total of £14m; where did this figure come from, because if Cormac are involved, you should at least double this?! The new Truro pool cost £8m.... 20 years ago, so with steel and other materials rising 20-30% in the last year alone, we can't really see how a state of the art, modern, all purpose stadium with conference facilities will cost just £14m; and then who's paying for the running costs? And presumably there'll be no rates - compared to the extortionate business rates which have driven so many small Cornish businesses out of their hometowns - but who will be responsible for the estimated £7m annual cost of running the sewerage for a stadium and 1,500 homes (initially) from storage tanks from Chiverton to Newham? Is this just another pie-in-the-sky, barmy, other-people's-money idea from John Betty, Phil Mason and the other part-time mercenaries at Cornwall Council? Beware, because this doomed white elephant, to benefit a dubious developer, some council officers, a millionaire rugby club owner, and Kevin Heaney's former Football Club, will all come back sooner than you think to bite Cornish taxpayers on the bum. FREE STADIUM - Now you see it, now you don't! www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stadium-cornwall-wants-6-million-1109899 www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stadium-cornwall-asked-cornwall-council-1105012 A new stadium with our council tax and business rates, but we can't afford this: www.cornwalllive.com/news/health/cornwall-cancer-services-supporters-rally-1104745 Or this: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/tearful-donald-thomas-centre-users-1116035 MENTAL HEALTH SHORTAGES www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/dad-who-died-after-overdose-1117002 (Whilst Cornwall Council can spend hours, days and weeks negotiating with development sharks about how much money they need from us for their "FREE" stadium, Adult Social Care and Mental Health Services are slashed to the bare bones. SAINT BLAZEY www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/landreath-place-st-blazey-centre-1115668 TRERULEFOOT www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/safety-review-a38-cornwall-held-1115534 BUDE www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/premier-inn-open-newest-hotel-1103786 FALMOUTH www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/premier-inn-could-still-come-1110415 FALMOUTH www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/kernow-king-brands-pendennis-headland-1106508 BODMIN www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/a30-carminow-cross-crash-between-1109611 SECOND HOMES www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/second-homes-tax-row-cornwall-1108659 CROFTY www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/?pageNumber=2 (How many times??) SALTASH www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/costa-mcdonalds-home-bargains-iceland-1104706 Whilst we drive out local businesses - who employ local people and plow profits back into the local community - out of our town centres due to exorbitant business rates, we open the doors to international and ruthless big business, often paying very little tax in the UK, and with no particular affinity to Cornwall... and then this happens: www.cornwalllive.com/news/business/tesco-sainsburys-job-cuts-could-1111664 REDRUTH, TRURO & HAYLE www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/residents-redruth-hayle-told-call-1117429 www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/owner-truro-coffee-shop-sixteen-1105798 (Cornwall no longer so peaceful and safe, just days after the Michael Spiers armed robbery in Truro's Lower Lemon Street) MULLION www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mullion-cove-harbour-cornwall-sealed-1107899 (Let's hope the Council and Natural England know what they're doing drilling holes into Tintagel's ancient cliffs for their dodgy bridge... too far?) PERRANZABULOE www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/planning-committee-approves-silverwell-traveller-1112207 (Against all advice from local parish council, residents and several Cornwall Councillors) SAINT AGNES www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/bmw-driver-brings-st-agnes-1116993 (Welcome to modern Cornwall, when one car brings a village to a standstill; let's hope it wasn't Phil Mason's!)