The photo from last week's West Briton reporting on how Building Control, here in Cornwall and elsewhere around the country, have failed to stop Developers' poor and even dangerous building practices. Cornwall Council want to build as much and as quickly as possible for up country landlords, but forgetting to satisfy even basic building requirements, whilst several tradesmen we've spoken to in Cornwall slam these developers and many of their fast and furious cowboys, as a disaster waiting to happen...
Saint Austell is fast spreading north and swallowing up clay villages on its way to Newquay, where outlying villages including Porth, Saint Columb Minor and Goonhavern are all merging together into Newquay suburbia, with the Prince Charles-inspired Nansledan now a vast futuristic white mess in the middle of nowhere; many of these new estates use well known and loved "red brick"; proper Cornish materials then....
From Breage, Mousehole and Tregony:
Why are some cities banning 5G yet Cornwall is rolling it out despite massive health concerns? Where’s our Council when you need it?
Ah, yes, probably busy carving up more farmland for Persimmon and Wain Homes…
https://takebackyourpower.net/brussels-first-major-city-to-halt-5g-due-to-health-effects/
Separately, this additional petition also still needs your immediate help:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-free-range-egg-farce/u/24397676
Urgent action also needed here (link below) on the Housing Supplementary Planning Document Consultation:
(CC state: Dear Consultee,
Cornwall Council is publishing the following document for a four week consultation period between Monday 8th April and 5pm Monday 6th May 2019.)
One Falmouth resident wrote to the Local Plan team:
Dear CC Local Plan Team,
In the Foreword of the SPD document, you state:
“Good quality housing is vital and it is important that our housing stock is appropriate to meet the needs of our communities;”
In that regard, could you please therefore explain to me the following:
1- why did CC Building Control allow Persimmon, Taylor Wimpy and other developers to build so many substandard and even dangerous homes in Cornwall over recent years, as highlighted by both the local and national press?
2- I understand from ONS statistics that deaths continue to outnumber births in Cornwall, so given the additional 52,500 new homes planned for Cornwall in 2010-30, can you please define “our communities”, as here in Falmouth, most new houses seem to go to non-Cornish residents rather than to our own children and other locals.
3- given the Local Plan started in 2010, and we’re now in 2019, how many units have already been built in this period and what happens in 2030, or when you reach the 52,500 target?!!
Yours sincerely,
LT (Falmouth)
Towns & villages # of Supporters
Penzance-Newlyn-Helston-St Ives-Hayle 1,026
Redruth-Pool-Camborne 994
Truro-Threemilestone-Roseland-Chacewater 862
Bodmin-Liskeard-Wadebridge-Launceston-Bude-Saltash 836
St Austell-Clay Country-Lostwithiel-Fowey-Par 713
Newquay-Quintrell Downs-Perranporth-St Agnes 670
Falmouth-Penryn-Mawnan-Mylor 502
CORNWALL 5,602
Cornish expats / Others: 2,448
(of which)
Plymouth 150
Exeter/Other Devon 164
London 114
Cardiff/Wales 100
Edinburgh/Glasgow/Scotland 77
USA/Canada 74
Australia/NZ 60
France/Spain/Italy 60
Total (31-03-2019) 8,050