Discussion (by email) between a Cornwall Council cabinet member and the Cornish Solidarity team: Sent: 31 January 2018 00:31 To: Mitchell Andrew CC; Paynter Adam CC; German Julian CC; Eathorne-Gibbons Mike CC; Egerton Bob CC; Rob Nolan; Hannaford Edwina CC; Brown Geoff CC; Kennally Kate; Dyer John CC; Sarah Newton MP; EUSTICE, George; laurence.reed@bbc.co.uk; Cabinet (Democratic Services); Matt Kaczmarek Mark CC; Subject: RE: Langarth opposition briefing 30 / 01 / 2018 posted on social media change.org petition site and various recipients deemed relevant. Dear Andrew Many thanks for getting back so promptly. This document ‘’written’’ by Councillor Kaczmarek outlines the scheme. www.cornwall.gov.uk/.../Development-Brief-Land-North-of-the-A390-2012_.... Langarth d. P k d. Park and Ride. P. Threemilestone Retail Park a. Treliske Industrial Estate. Adopted by the Council's Cabinet on the. 25 January 2012 for use as a ... Councillor Mark Kaczmarek Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning .... the North at Langarth and Maiden Green Farms marked by belts of woodland. 1 Saltmarsh the Inox MD specifically promised a ‘’free stadium’’ in return for planning permission for housing. 2 Cornwall Council voted not to provide council funding for the stadium. 3 The stadium was not delivered as promised. 4 The planning permission was granted but has not gone ahead because it is unviable. 5 The stadium was not delivered but our contention is that the offer which got rugby fans onside en mass to support him was in effect a bribe or inducement which last time I checked was illegal. 6 The developer then came back saying that if a substantial retail permission was granted that really would deliver the stadium. 7 The stadium has still not been delivered and everyone has walked away from the retail development leaving the whole thing dead in thec water. 8 There has been enough double dealing and untruths, Salmarsh is a man of straw who has misled everyone but does not have the wherewithal to pull it off, it is time for this expensive farce to be canned. 9 Surely Cornwall Council realises the depth of feeling about this which has made it a total laughing stock which is in nobody’s best interests. 10 You make no mention of the Betty effect and the potentially dire consequences of what he is currently peddling with regard to Langarth. 11 Who on earth saw fit to employ this one man menace, was it an executive or a cabinet decision? 12 In conclusion your point (2) below reinforces the current case made for Carn Brea given the added plus of a rail orientated park and ride for Truro commuters at Carn Brea Thank you once again for responding which is more than the rest of your cabinet colleagues ever bother to do. Tragically it seems hostilities are set to continue and intensify given the body of evidence Cornish Solidarity has assembled which your cabinet colleagues wilfully choose to ignore at present while the petition for Masons removal nears the critical 5000 point. Regards Kevin From: Mitchell Andrew CC Sent: 30 January 2018 17:45 To: kevin bennetts; Paynter Adam CC; German Julian CC; Eathorne-Gibbons Mike CC; Egerton Bob CC; Rob Nolan; Hannaford Edwina CC; Brown Geoff CC; Kennally Kate; Dyer John CC; Sarah Newton MP; EUSTICE, George; laurence.reed@bbc.co.uk; The Spectator; Jordan Barry CC; Kaczmarek Mark CC; Subject: Re: Langarth opposition briefing 30 / 01 / 2018 posted on social media change.org petition site and various recipients deemed relevant. Dear Kevin, Thank you for the email and thoughts on this. I have two comments: 1) My understanding that 'a free stadium' was going to be provided by retail going on site, not as stated in your email from 1,700 new homes. If that permission was dependent upon the stadium I will be interested to know what that means and will ask the question - but as stated my current understanding is that the housing permission was granted on its own merits (understood you don't think it has any)! 2) Many years ago when I was Economy Portfolio Holder, a study (by officers and consultants) clearly demonstrated that if the council was not going to end up underwriting a operating loss each year, then the stadium needed to be in the Truro area. This was after we seriously looked at and considered Redruth, Newquay, Bodmin, Launceston and to a lesser extent St. Austell. If anything, the exercise was anti-Truro as we looked as hard as possible to put it anywhere but Truro! I hope this helps!? Regards, Andrew. A. P. Mitchell. Cornwall Councillor - St. Ives West. Cabinet Member for Homes. From: kevin bennetts Sent: 30 January 2018 11:58:52 To: Paynter Adam CC; German Julian CC; Eathorne-Gibbons Mike CC; Egerton Bob CC; Rob Nolan; Mitchell Andrew CC; Hannaford Edwina CC; Brown Geoff CC; Kennally Kate; Dyer John CC; Sarah Newton MP; EUSTICE, George; laurence.reed@bbc.co.uk; mariedotty55@gmail.com; Cabinet (Democratic Services); Kaczmarek Mark CC; Subject: Langarth opposition briefing 30 / 01 / 2018 posted on social media change.org petition site and various recipients deemed relevant. Dear Cornwall Cabinet Members The Stadium for Cornwall issue is divisive at a time when Cornwall needs cohesion in the fight against an enemy that will destroy the very fabric of what Cornwall really is and can be. Cornish Solidarity is not against the principle of a stadium indeed we wholeheartedly support the concept. However much the promoters of Langarth as the preferred site might despise our stance our opposition to a stadium being built at Langarth with any element of public money being involved remains implacable. The reason for this goes back to 2011 / 2012 when Inox stated that they would provide a ''free stadium'' in return for planning permission for 1700 homes at Langarth Farm. The planning permission was granted in pristine open countryside a long way from the centre of Truro on what even then was a notoriously congested stretch of road incapable of any meaningful improvement. The prime movers were: 1 Kevin Lavery then Cornwall Council CEO and proven sharp operator who soon legged it for Kiwi Land when his dodgy deals unravelled. 2 Rob Saltmarsh CEO of Inox Developments a bit of a chancer whose main claim to fame was having more neck than a giraffe. 3 Phil Mason Cornwall’s chief planner currently featuring in a change.org petition calling for his removal. 4 Former Crofty miner and Cornish Solidarity member Mark Kaczmarek who became a very good councillor until he got a cabinet post as portfolio holder for housing and ideas above his station as the fall guy for the Langarth scam. 5 A gullible sporting fraternity whose craving for a stadium blinded them to reality by turning them into cannon fodder for Inox to cynically dupe and use. Given these less than sound foundations the Langarth project quite predictably crashed and burned because at the time in question it simply was not viable. Cut to 2015 / 2016 when presumably on the advice of a consultant working for Cornwall Council with regard to the provision of ''affordable housing'' persuaded the council cabinet to back the purchase of part of Langarth to ''kick start'' the stalled development. QUESTIONS: 1 Was the consultant in question Bristol based Hamiltons apparently operated by a certain John Hamilton Betty who in quick succession became a Cornwall Council staffer as Strategic Director Economic Growth and Development? 2 Is there any possibility of an inappropriate connection between Mr Saltmarsh and Mr Betty in relation to Langarth given their roles in the development sector in relation to Mr Betty's current high profile role in the public sector and excessive enthusiasm where professional detachment is paramount? 3 Does the recently announced pending departure of Dr Sandra Rothwell Chief Executive of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LEP and Service Director – Economic Growth have any connection with Mr Betty seeing her as a rival to be disposed of? 4 Given the intrigue and sheer opacity of this latest incarnation of the Langarth planning fiasco, which to any reasonable observer would seem to be tarred and feathered with intrigue, half truths and untruths in equal measure is it wise that our council is involved at all? Councillor Paynter would you kindly respond to the questions recently put to you by Cornish Solidarity, you may care to note that Mrs Newton as a result of pressure applied by constituents is now taking a personal interest! Much as the stadium promoters protest to the contrary there is a viable alternative available were they and the Cornwall Council Cabinet to remove their rose tinted blinkers and smell the coffee. Cornish Solidarity put it to you all as Cornwall Council Cabinet Members that the appointment of Mr Betty has installed into your midst an ever bigger menace to Cornwall than the utterly discredited Kevin Lavery who instigated this fiasco. We put it to you in the clearest possible terms that Cornwall Council could well do without the growing public sentiment that is increasingly evident by way of the anger that the local planning process is creating. Yours faithfully The Cornish Solidarity Team NOTES: https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p50x50/23380040_1562785583806547_3699066989307185961_n.jpg?oh=7fb792f2828117b9e2a02af2a41c0da4&oe=5AE6220A Cornish Solidarity. shared Craig Weatherhill's post. · 26 January at 14:39 · CORNISH SOLIDARITY HEARTILY ENDORSE THIS PROPOSAL. THE CASE FOR A PROPER STADIUM AT CARN BREA. We all know Cornwall Councils track record with consultants. Don't we??? Now they have employed a former consultant on £145k a year to throw his weight around to ''facilitate'' Langarth!!! The Langarth stadium should have been delivered years ago by the totally discredited developer who bamboozled everyone with the magic word FREE. But it wasn't free was it??? Even when he was given a second planning permission that he claimed really would deliver the FREE STADIUM. We know that free is a very emotive word that blinds some to the stark reality that everything carries a cost. In the interim all we have had is hot air missed deadlines and broken promises from men of straw.. Time to get real we think because Cornwall does desperately deserve a stadium that is free of the hubris and corruption that sticks to Langarth like tar and feathers. 1 THE CARN BREA SITE ADJOINS THE MAINLINE RAILWAY. 2 THERE IS ALREADY A DISUSED STATION NEXT DOOR. 3 IT HAS GOOD ROAD CONNECTIONS TO THE A30 AND HELSTON. 4 IT HAS PLENTY OF PARKING. 5 THERE IS SHOPPING NEARBY FOR SPOUSES DURING A MATCH. 5 IT IS ALREADY OWNED BY CORNWALL COUNCIL. 6 THE PARKING COULD BE USED ON WORKDAYS AS A RAIL BASED PARK AND RIDE FOR TRURO FOR THOSE COMING FROM THE LOCAL AREA WHO ARE CURRENTLY PART OF THE CONGESTION PROBLEM ON THE A390 WE WOULD NOT BE AGAINST CORNWALL COUNCIL UNDERWRITING THE ENTIRE BUILD COST AT CARN BREA WHICH MAKES MUCH MORE SENSE THAN TAKING ON WHAT WILL INEVITABLY BE AN OPEN ENDED FINANCIAL COMMITMENT AT LANGARTH FARM. WE SUGGEST THE CASE FOR CARN BREA IS OVERWHELMING. SO LETS SEE A BIT OF COMMONSENSE AND CRACK ON WITH IT. In other news: NHS CANCER www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/royal-cornwall-hospital-trust-objects-1142103 RETAIL www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/marks--spencer-falmouth-set-1143176 After forcing the closure of many small stores, this is what happens, when national chains with no affinity to anywhere, take over. TRURO www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stadium-cornwall-cornish-pirates-boss-1134538 And we've clearly explained why a stadium for Cornwall should be located elsewhere Unless you want this and more, for years to come: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/your-council-tax-suddenly-set-1140970 TRURO TRAFFIC CHAOS www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/standstill-a39-out-truro-due-1141839 And they want to put a new town here, disguised as a free stadium?!! Even the giant retailers walked away.... Isn't that a clue??? TRURO www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/bigger-aldi-along-smyths-toys-1141311 Usual sales pitch from ravenous developers: jobs usually for others and on land that belonged to Truronians, before developers snatched it from trustees. The urban sprawl that only out-of-town developers and misguided councillors want, is set to continue south of Truro... PARKING www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/rogue-private-car-parking-operators-1138106 Treliske Hospital, the railway station and across most Cornish towns, all parking was free a few short years ago; shouldn't that ring alarm bells at Cornwall Council??? TRURO TRAFFIC www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-agrees-consider-zebra-1118952 This is set to get much. much worse, as Council allows developers to add thousands more homes, despite most of Truro already declared an AQMA (Nitrogen Oxides too high)