Is this all there is to show for all that EU funding?
All those vanity projects?
Cornwall Council’s growth agenda?
A real success story for the chosen few!
Where the usual suspects trouser the loot!
When in reality, the biggest most visible growth area is actually food banks!

Meanwhile, in Hayle, Councillor Graham Coad the “Toad” adds to his trophy cabinet:

www.piratefm.co.uk/news/latest-news/2992496/new-housing-development-near-hayle-gets-the-green-light

For your information, whatever the razzmatazz surrounding these “affordable homes”, the reality is, they’ll be affordable to landlords generally from London and beyond, not to those local families and youngsters that may actually need them. This comes from the same Councillor, Graham Coad, who is offered lifts by developers and their agents to planning meetings… and he gladly accepts them; of course, no harm in that…(?!!!)

If you too are sick to the back teeth of the endemic collusion between big government, big corporate and senior Cornwall Council officers, cabinet members and the legal department, why not come and watch for yourselves, the democratic process taking place this coming Tuesday? You’re more than welcome... After all, you pay their wages!!

https://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=584&MId=8922&Ver=4

Finally, an extract from an interesting lecture on planning:

Gavin Parker Call for a New Skeffington Report

The planning system needs 'fundamental reform' of its approach to public participation, including a 'new Skeffington' and a 'focused agency' to oversee public involvement in planning.
Moreover, planners themselves need to become “neo-advocates" for the profession, supporting communities to become “co-owners” of a system that is alienating them, argued Professor Gavin Parker FRTPI at the ninth annual RTPI Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture last night.
Without such reform trust in planning will continue to erode, suiting the agenda of politicians and others who would prefer to remove the protections that planning offers communities and create a deregulated planning landscape.
Speaking on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the influential Skeffington Report, People and Planning, the professor of planning studies at the University of Reading offered a series of “home truths” in 'Participation 50 Years after Skeffington', a calmly scathing assessment of the failure of planning and planners to build on Skeffington’s recommendations.
Parker argued that, since 1969, local authorities had done the bare minimum to deliver participatory planning. Meanwhile, corporate entities and their advocates had mastered the art of giving the appearance of good consultation while actually manipulating the process to deliver the outcomes they want. Planning, he stressed, had fallen “hostage” to the agendas of politicians locally and nationally and could not be described a truly democratic activity.
“The ideal of democracy at its core is primarily about democracy reflecting the will of the people,” Parker asserted. “I’m not quite sure that the outcomes we have provided through our planning system necessarily reflect the will of the people.”
The result was a breakdown in trust in planning and planners, “a feeling in the public mind of alienation about how the system operates”. Yet, Parker continued, “we need public support if planning is to be successful” in serving a public purpose.
To generate this support would require planners to “do something fundamentally different in how we get people involved in owning and co-owning planning”. An “upgrade” could be achieved through three actions: firstly, planners needed to become “neo-advocates” for their profession to help the public to co-own the system; secondly, Parker called for a “new Skeffington”, a wide-ranging review of the state of participation in contemporary planning; finally, he argued for the creation of an independent body to lead on the delivery of participation throughout the planning system.
Referring to the gradual deregulation of planning via such policies as permitted development rights, he said: “if we don’t address the way that we do this and consider hardwiring participation into our system then the future is already with us”.