Now that this petition has passed the 5,000 mark, it is time for us to start putting pressure on the Council. We have recently written to all Cornwall Councillors, but now we need back-up. We are asking all of you that have signed this petition to write a short email to you local Cornwall councillor, explaining why you feel planning in Cornwall is not fit for purpose and why Cornwall needs a different approach. Many of you have written scathing comments on this petition about the way in which Cornwall is being ruined in a very short space of time, and it is time that councillors were made fully aware of the groundswell of opposition that exists to Phil Mason's enthusiasm for irresponsible and unsustainable hyper-development. You can help raise this awareness by writing in to your councillor. Please find the time to write to your local Cornwall councillor, whose email address can be found by typing in your postcode in the Council's website here: www.cornwall.gov.uk/my-area/ or here: https://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/mgCommitteeMailingList.aspx?ID=0 Please also cc your email to Council Leader Adam Paynter at adam.paynter@cornwallcouncillors.org.uk and ourselves at imonk@hotmail.co.uk so we can monitor those councillors that have been written to by their constituents. Many thanks to you all. Separately, it would seem that Council Planner Ellis Crompton-Brown is in the news again! Despite more than 20,000 people signing the Nancegollan petition, this planning officer, fully supported by his boss Phil Mason, has again decided to take the matter into his own hands, despite plenty of professional and local advice against this monstrous scheme, and recommended approval; if you can make it, the meeting to decide the fate of this outrageous planning application is at Lys kernow in Truro, tomorrow morning (Thursday 15th February 2018). All welcome. www.change.org/p/cornwall-county-councill-stop-the-free-range-egg-farce On a different note, you can find details of how the government could build up to a million homes (!), all of it on brownfield land, if the will was there; but it’s cheaper for developers to build mass estates on greenfield sites (at huge profit), so they do that instead, and as these developers are political party donors, the government and its henchmen – regional planning inspectors – are always too willing to oblige. www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/latest-news-releases/item/4768-brownfield-registers-identify-land-for-more-than-1-million-homes?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=campaigns-update-feb-2018-nonmembers&utm_content=Campaigns+Update+2018+Feb+-+non+members On the issue of Langarth, we have been through most of the Agenda and it seems Langarth and the "Free" Stadium are hidden away in the principle development site in Truro. We do not consider this to be transparent. Apparently there is a debate going on within the Council - the Cabinet are adamant that they have the powers to decide on paying the shortfall for the stadium but some of the elected members are contesting this and are requiring it to be a decision of the Council. Items under Agenda item 8 is where the money for the development and baling out Inox is hidden. Google Cornwall Council - councillors and democracy and then go to meetings and agenda - Cornwall Council 20th February 2018 and scroll down to Cabinet decisions which are listed 8(i) etc. Any questions for full Council have to be in by 12 noon the l5th February THIS THURSDAY. It must NOT BE MORE THAN 50 words. The telephone number for Democratic support is (01872) 322108 - Louise Opie. The email address is - support@cornwall.gov.uk Please ask the clerk to email you confirming that the question is in order and that it will be asked at the meeting on the 20th February, 2018. A recent comment by a supporter: "Housing provision in Cornwall is in a state of madness. There are many who do need homes but they cannot afford the type of houses mostly being built today. We need more social renting properties as most private rentals are simply too dear. Too many so called affordable houses for sale seem to end up as buy to let." Another comment from afar: "“This is just a localised scandal but a national one. I live in the Chilterns which is currently being ruined by our elected representatives blindly led by the unelected planning officer. Collectively they are ignoring vociferous opposition from the people who live in the areas they are ruining with wall to wall 4 bed detached executive housing; ignoring the destruction of wildlife habitat, government policy on the surrender of greenbelt land, the potentially disastrous impact on infra structure and environment and they are even ignoring their own planning guidelines on sustainability and deliverability. The situation is even worse in the next county of Hertfordshire. In a recent programme, the London centric BBC treated the residents of a rural community trying to preserve their environment as something of a joke- do there is no help to there. No national newspaper is covering this story. So, thank god for you and people like you.”