2,000 people opposing this development “isn’t at a level where it would need a meeting”, obviously. How are these planning officers so blind and arrogant?!! www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/15458871.Homes_plan_for_Penryn__39_s_College_Valley_approved_by_delegated_authority/ Last month planning officer Peter Bainbridge told the Packet that planning rules brought in by the Conservatives in government had relaxed the requirements for large developments to go before committee, while the College Valley application had not received much public opposition, while Cornwall Councillors were "happy that it be dealt with under delegated powers." "The number of objections isn't at the level where it would need a meeting." Outline planning permission was granted last week by Cornwall Council head of planning Phil Mason, subject to several conditions, including the submission of a detailed application. The legal loophole slashing our rural affordable homes Developers are using a legal loophole to slash the number of affordable homes they deliver in rural areas. A new CPRE report, produced in partnership with Shelter, shows that when this loophole is used, half of the affordable homes required by councils are cut from rural housing developments. Where development does happen in rural areas, it must meet the needs of local people - not just lead to an easy sell for developers at the expense of our precious countryside. If rural areas are to thrive, then the provision of affordable housing is an absolute necessity. Otherwise, individuals and families will continue to be priced out and forced to move away, leading to the loss of services that are vital in supporting communities, such as schools, post offices and pubs. www.cpre.org.uk/media-centre/latest-news-releases/item/4785-rural-communities-denied-affordable-housing-as-developers-exploit-loophole Letter sent to Phil mason on 20th October 2016 ‪Dawn Walters‬ Thu 20/10/2016 13:01 ‪CC Pollard John (jpollard1@cornwall.gov.uk);‬ ‪Hello Mr Pollard and Mr Mason‬ ‪Once again I hear of "money gets you everywhere" the news that the owner of Crealy land near the park which now has a different name, is to build hundreds of holiday homes, they will start building early next year.‬ ‪How soon will planning be given to make them into permanent holiday homes? Hundreds of acres of farm land going to be made into concrete, roads all changed, more traffic on the roads! This summer it has been a nightmare trying to get from Wadebridge to Truro, it took me over an hour to get to hospital, we have had to use back roads as the A30 has been at a standstill between Carland cross and Chiverton most of the time, the A39 queues back to Trispen.‬ ‪The amount of buildings the government are saying we need!! Are these houses for people already living permanently in Cornwall? Having between 100 and 200.000 more homes, but the council are doing nothing about building a new hospital, schools, surgeries etc. I had to wait over the time given for my last operation, which was orthopaedic, and this I was told is to get longer, as they are not coping, there are more and more people moving to Cornwall with no new infrastructure. Please don't tell me the hospitals are coping as they are not.‬ ‪Another question, why spend all the millions the Council are spending on disrupting Bodmin? When this is finished there will be few shops and businesses left in Bodmin for all these cyclists the council believe will come up a steep hill to shop, not forgetting they will have to carry all the things they may be able to obtain in any remaining shops, on their backs!! Money which could be used towards the cost of a new hospital‬ ‪Please you people at the Council stop wasting money on unnecessary things like bus lanes, changing roundabouts that don't need it, and so on. ‬ ‪I can not believe there are true Cornish people in the council offices allowing Cornwall to become Mayfair, London.‬ ‪I am so glad I've lived the years I have lived, as my descendants will never know the beauty of Cornwall, actually neither will all the tourists you hope to bring in by building as you do, as there will be a traffic jam from the border of Cornwall to Lands End!‬ ‪Yours sincerely‬ ‪From Dawn Walters (Mrs)‬ ‪Wadebridge.‬ ‪phil.mason@cornwall.gov.uk;‬ ‪CC Pollard John (jpollard1@cornwall.gov.uk);‬ More worrying comments about the Langarth fiasco that perhaps Cornwall councillors should be aware of: On 27 Feb 2018, at 23:08 You are exactly right - very few councillors know the history - esp. that Inox is allowed to build 749 HOUSES BEFORE THEY NEED TO BUILD THE NORTHER ACCESS ROAD. Any bets on when they may become bankrupt??? As you are aware there are other developers of Maiden Green, Willow Green Hendra and others who are also expected to contribute to the NAR but without Inox building their  section of the road it will be useless …. all part of the intelligence of either the planning department or the legal department of CC…. A series of email correspondence between Cornish Solidarity supporters and Rob Nolan, whom we consider to be a good, hardworking councillor for his community: On 1 Mar 2018, at 20:23 Hi Kevin, Brilliantly written, as Churchill said we have to attack the under belly, this is doing just that to get our message home. Kind regards, (From a parish councillor) On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:02 Dear Councillor Nolan You are respected as a fair and decent man, having noted your expressed dislike of the petition to remove the chief planner I would like to explain the reasoning behind it because let me assure you the decision to institute the petition it was not undertaken lightly. The background being that as a group we were fully aware of the chief planners previous track record at Restormel Council which cannot but make one wonder why he was appointed to his present post in the first place which was effectively a promotion and therefore interpreted as a reward for what was in reality failure in his previous post. You may be aware that a group of concerned Cornish people have campaigned against hyper development since the imposition of the unitary council in 2009 coming together on a more formal basis when the Langarth / Stadium planning outrage slipped through the system on the nebulous promise of a ‘’free stadium’’ which entirely predictably has in reality proved to be far from ‘’free’’. The subsequent hubris that resulted from the Langarth fiasco and the way Cornwall Council handled it has been entirely Cornwall Council’s own doing, creating for itself in the process a growing level of anger and disrespect that should make everyone involved hang their heads in shame, indeed it was amazing to hear the chief planner actually admit that mistakes had been made and the project was actually a mess which coincided with Councillor Pollards similar admission during a debate on the Cornish Stuff website. Cornwall Council has chosen over an extended timeframe to wilfully ignore all overtures, refused consistently to answer reasonable legitimate questions and generally treated everyone of us with disdain bordering upon contempt even resorting to empty threats of legal action in the recent past. For example the now notorious private developers forum gave developers an opportunity to cosy up to planners in a highly questionable manner the more so when the minutes of such meetings went underground, no similar opportunity was ever afforded to those who opposed the developers effectively denying them their democratic right of formal reply, which Cornwall Council itself always insists on. As a result of this and the perceived lack of accountability that Cornwall Council planners appeared to operate under, given the positive bias repeatedly exhibited toward developers, it was decided to call the chief planner to account personally. While this may be seen as brutal and any collateral damage regrettable it has certainly captured the attention of those who had previously chosen not to acknowledge the problems that exist that have effectively shredded Cornwall Councils reputation and credibility in the eyes of swathes of Cornish council taxpayers Having reached the point where being repeatedly ignored was no longer an option it was decided to adopt a harder more unorthodox approach by calling for the removal of the named individual deemed responsible for the abysmal state of the planning system in Cornwall, in these circumstances it was not a personal attack on the individual but an expression of extreme dissatisfaction with the system that the highly paid individual in question was responsible for delivering. Let it be clearly understood that none of this would have been necessary had Cornwall Council extended the common courtesy of the same treatment and attention afforded to those involved in the Private Developers Forum by affording us the democratic right of reply, effectively we feel that Cornwall Council misjudged the depth of feeling by making the fatal assumption that the protestors involved would simply give up and go away, clearly this has not been the case. The petition will continue to run gathering comments that highlight the problems that our council should be fully aware of that hitherto have been wilfully ignored, given the fact that the chief planner appears to have been sidelined we are examining the possibility of modifying the petition to focus on the activities of the already notorious Strategic Director Economic Growth and Development who is seen as a one man menace to Cornwall’s cultural social and environmental heritage. Thank you for your attention Best regards Kevin Bennetts On behalf of the Cornish Solidarity team From: Ivan Monk Sent: 01 March 2018 14:15 Subject: Re: Truro development Whereas I applaud Rob Nolan’s genuine efforts at doing the right thing, he too has been hoodwinked by the “system” again and again, and is now prepared to accept crumbs on a false premise. 1- the thousands of homes already built around Treliske have been proven not to be affordable, for locals or for key staff. 2- if developers have not provided the promised infrastructure, then they should be fined, banned from future projects in Cornwall and their land confiscated so the the council can then build more council homes. 3- rather ironic than Rob Nolan says “too personal” then goes on to name Mason in his very next paragraph! 4- why isn’t Cornwall council doing more to support Loic Rich and his team with the CLT efforts, instead of continuing to cozy up to greedy national developers with a single agenda of profit? 5- how can he talk about Langarth housing locals when everyone knows, and Bernard Deacon has proved, that 99% will benefit in-migration directly, with an ever increasing pressure on Treliske itself? They’re not building for Treliske workers, but for more Treliske patients!!! From: Nolan Rob CC Date: 1 March 2018 at 13:45:49 GMT To: Dingwall , Paynter Adam CC Subject: Re: Truro development Dear Ige and Eva Thank you for your email. I'm aware of the petition and although I have publicly held officers to account, I don't like the personal nature of this petition. I do agree with you that there have been mistakes in the Planning strategy in Cornwall, indeed I've repeatedly said to Mr Mason and the Council that the large planning applications that we've encouraged just don't suit Cornwall. The response has been that we need the infrastructure gain that comes with large applications. But I think I've been proven right in that few of these large developments have actually been built, and several have come back to Planning looking for 'help' with the infrastructure that they were supposed to provide. There is now a change in strategy forming. It's been recognised that housing our young people is the biggest problem facing Cornwall, so if we have to build all these houses why shouldn't the Council invest in building social housing, affordable to buy, affordable rentals and indeed market value rentals. If we did that on the land out by the Hospital, which has permission for 850 houses, then I think people would be a lot happier knowing the houses built would be going to local people or key workers who are already working at the Hospital or in Truro. There's a lot of discussion going on, but on the face of it that's a strategy I would back. But a lot will depend on the detail. Best wishes Rob Rob Nolan CC Councillor for Truro Redannick Chair of Strategic Planning From: Dingwall Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 3:10:51 PM To: Nolan Rob CC; Paynter Adam CC Subject: Truro development Dear Rob Nolan, As two of the 5000+ signatories to the current petition in favour of removing the present Chief Planning Officer of Cornwall Council, we have been requested to write to our local councillors to express our views about the continuing over-development of Truro and its surroundings. There is clearly a great need for more affordable housing in the area, but the developments we see springing up all around the city are predominantly executive-style, which seem to be intended to maximise profits for the developers without any improvements to the local infrastructure - schools, transport, leisure activities and other facilities. We understand that planning permission has already been granted for hundreds more residential houses on the outskirts of Truro, and as ordinary citizens feel powerless to try to halt the continuing ruination of a great city. Needless to say, we are totally against this. Yours sincerely, Ige and Eva D. A very sensible comment from one supporter: “So Javid wants to force Council's to build their allocation of housing or they will have their planning departments taken over by Westminster. But the loophole is the term that they must be meeting the needs of their local community. Since when did Cornwall need 52,000 houses to meet the Duchy's needs? Everyone with any sense knows that these houses are to accommodate families from elsewhere in the UK. Cornwall council and its planners would earn a lot of respect from Cornish people if they stood up to the government and admit this need is false and that no more homes should be built until the government invests money in our crippled NHS. Forget white Elephants like the Stadium and investing in homes for Manchester Housing Associations and get on and invest in improving our infrastructure.”