Despite people’s, communities’ and parishes’ best efforts, the greedy desire by developers and planners to ruin Cornwall completely, seems to accelerate.
In Padstow, Hawkers Reach is being marketed as a new Luxury and New Build Dream Development. A few comments from locals:
No affordable starter homes for young locals?
All the character and style of a washing machine.
Luxury homes mean luxury profit for the builders and luxury council taxes. Money wins every time.
Looks soo out of place, should be somewhere in Canada not in Cornwall. These homes are not needed therefore should not be built.
Because it’s “hot” among the vacuous investment morons and our council is easy to manipulate. Unless either of those things stop, it’ll keep on happening. Very depressing.
In Swanpool, Falmouth, where former Cornwall Councillor and SPC Chairman Mike Varney and his friends, Wain Homes, opened the way for mass development in an AONB:
Important decision as the access to beaches can become disputed and Swanpool, the adjacent bay to Falmouth, is being ruined by development:
www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/17920836.open-spaces-society-39-s-successful-application-maenporth-beach
In Launceston, the Town Council and Cornwall Council would like to see higher quality development coming forward in Launceston.
To help achieve this, a masterplan is being prepared. It offers the opportunity for the Town Council, Launceston residents and Cornwall Council to take a proactive approach to how it believes development in this area should come forward.
The Launceston Southern Growth Area Masterplan is now available to view and comment on during a six week public consultation period from 2 September till 14 October 2019. The aim of the consultation is for local residents to be able to influence how Launceston grows in the future.
An exhibition held over two days will allow residents to drop in and see the plans on display and the team will be able to answer any questions.
The exhibition will be held at the Town Council, Western Road, Launceston PL15 7AR on
Friday 27 September 10am - 3.30pm
Saturday 28 September 10am - 1pm
www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/planning-policy/adopted-plans/planning-policy-guidance/launceston-southern-growth-area-masterplan-consultation
In Porthtowan (Saint Agnes meeting):
Up for Appeal with the Planning Inspectorate tomorrow Wednesday 25th September at 10am at The Miners and Mechanics in St Agnes. Holiday homes for Porthtowan. All welcome.
Local enthusiasm from a couple of early comments:
Must be stopped. For goodness sake.
I love the way these planning meetings are always held at a time that make it impossible for many to attend! I will do my best to get there.
In Callington:
161 House going up.
Was not passed by town council.
St Ann chapel. Over 200 built.
Still more going up.
And still they say it's for local people.
What local commentators said:
Greed corruption knows no end.
Ummmmm. Are we sure it's not for the dregs of cities up-country who want their housing stock released? I.e. Apparently Manchester were going to build over 200 homes opposite the small Tesco in Redruth... They even had that dual carriageway remodelled via the council (you and me paid for that) to single carriageways and the several turn-offs into the planned new estate built. Then to ship down their unwanted.
THEN (and only then) 'they' had a LAND survey done and found that it's contaminated (surprise, surprise... mining waste/minerals etc. in an historic mining area...) so prohibiting building as cleaning and preparing the land will cost way too much.... So Manchester City Council have pulled out. All those turn offs and remodelling of the main road built for nothing.
I was told by someone, I have no idea if it's true, that Manchester bought at St Ann's Chapel.
No way.... I didn't know about this...
Blimey. That road was better as it was before. Its a nightmare now. Crossing it is frightening. Do you know the new council houses over Tolvadon are STILL EMPTY!!!!
A terrble waste of council taxpayers’ money.
There's 170 houses being built in Callington (top of South Hill)
In Bodmin on the MOOR!!
PA19/02239/PREAPP
Planning performance agreement for proposed residential development of approximately 540 dwellings and associated works
Land East of Halgavor Moor Farm, Halgavor Road, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 5AA
Thank you for your consultation.
The proposed site consists of a number of established trees growing on top Cornish hedge banks. These provide strong habitat connectivity and vital valued wildlife corridors and hedge removal should be kept to a minimum and carefully consider on any scheme layouts.
Any removal of Cornish hedge will require materials from the removal to be stored and reused in establishing a new section of Cornish hedge by way of mitigation. The project should provide a net gain in Cornish hedge length and the placement of new Cornish hedge will need to consider habitat connectivity so as to not have a negative impact on provision for the local wildlife.
Where development abuts Cornish hedge, without established trees a minimum 2m buffer zone will be required although greater would be preferable. Where established trees are present a Construction Exclusion Zones as per the Root Protection Area (BS5837:2012) will need to be establish. It is noted in the scoping report that where proposed development abuts existing woodland, a 15 - 20m buffer will be established from any form of construction and this will need to be adhered to not only for the wooded riparian environment but also for other wooded areas or copse within the proposed site.
Reinforcement planting with in the riparian woodland, if considered carefully will provide age and structural diversity to this area and assist with biodiversity net gains as well ensuring canopy cover going forward. Reinforcement planting for retained hedgerows will be of vital importance for similar reasons and provide essential wildlife services and connectivity.
It is assumed that mature trees will be incorporated in to the design, and felling will be kept to a minimum. Established large canopy trees will lend a sense of maturity to the site and layout and internal infrastructure will need to be designed around retaining these essential assets. Individual dwelling layouts must consider shade constraints from retained trees, (including their potential fully mature size), to maximize to available natural light for incoming residents.
Any proposal site layouts will need to be informed by an Arboricultural report as per BS5837 Trees in relation to design, demolition and construction. This will be accompanied by a Tree Constraints Plan which will help to minimize the impact on trees at this location. Early input from a project Arboriculturist will provide detail of constraints and assist with layout proposals.
A substantial street tree provision will need to be provided and species should be selected from a palette suitable to the extremes of Cornish climate. Species which will provide important wildlife services, such as pollinator species and large canopy tree will need to be considered. A varied range of native and none native trees will be essential and will provide canopy resilience in the face of climate change and ongoing carbon sequestration.
Treepits should be of linear provision providing greater rooting volumes for planted trees, allowing for healthier and longer lasting trees, maximizing the benefits they provide including improved air quality, reduction in crime figures, health and wellbeing benefits and a sense of community pride. Use of SUDS style planting pits will enable planting integration in to the water drainage and management systems, assisting in flood management and water quality.
James Gregory Tree Officer
Is there no end to the uncontrolled wanton destruction of Cornwall’s natural and social environment??
Probably not as one Cornwall Councillor lamented today. See email below:
Please note that several Cornwall Councillors have now responded positively to the email sent out to them, regarding the potential fraud at Langarth.
I spoke at length to CC ****** this morning.
He's absolutely seething at the corruption happening under his very nose without anyone doing anything about it, simply because councillors, and specifically cabinet councillors are completely controlled and spineless. He even overheard Bob Egerton, before the full meting last week, telling an officer he didn't agree with the response he was due to read out to a public question, but the legal officer told him he MUST read it exactly as written!!!
Councillor **** has stated emphatically that it is the officers who COMPLETELY and ABSOLUTELY run the council. Councillors just watch and rubber stamp. Any questions or dissent is simply stamped out by officers at every level. This is Common purpose on a grand scale. The "master plan" totally bypasses democracy in Cornwall; some councillors play along with it and see if they can profit from it; some think they can talk their way out of it; some are marginalised; some are institutionalised and some go to sleep.... It's tragic!
Remember, it's Bob Egerton who highlighted the potential Langarth fraud by Inox in 2012; he's now the mouthpiece for the whole project!!
There must be a link somewhere between Inox, John Betty, Ian Saltmarch, Marcel Venn, Kate Kennally, Kevin Heaney, Dickie Evans/Cornish Pirates, Mike Eathorne-Gibbons, Tim Dwelly and possibly even Bob Egerton.
Councillor xxxxx says some councillors are definitely on the take, whilst senior planning officers are compromised by their own (illegal) participation in planning applications....!!
The corruption up there is rife, but the army of officers threaten councillors (involved) and close the wagons on any outside interference. It's quite shocking and frightening.
A comment by one FB user that seems to sum it all up quite well:
There’s plenty of supply, without all this additional substandard Persimmon, Wain, Linden and Taylor Wimpey unaffordable s***e going up absolutely everywhere.
Just look in the papers, the magazines, in agent windows and on the internet.
This isn’t meeting supply (if it were, you’d need a million new homes or more), this is simple mass urbanisation, environmental and agricultural vandalism, political expediency and base profiteering, as well as reaching for the lowest common denominator, i.e. it’s a nightmare around the UK so let’s bring it to Cornwall.
It’s not for Cornwall council planners, officers (both types unelected and totally unaccountable) and councillors to be satisfying housing demand for everyone and their dog; their job is to meet local demand from their own communities first, then to ensure the infrastructure is adequate to meet that local population’s needs, first, second and last....
That’s not happening, in fact, quite the opposite.
It’s not just scandalous, it’s an absolute disaster for Cornwall’s future and that of its children....