Whilst the country stops to fight the spread of Covid-19 and to support the NHS, Cornwall Council planners pay 10x over the odds to pay for land for a new town of 10,000 outside Truro… but without a new hospital!
''Our business plan has been turned upside down''… Now there is a surprise, you incompetent shower.
All coming home to roost exactly as predicted as the Kremlin Turkeys pay a top dollar £36 million for 100 acres of 2nd rate development land beset with problems, as the market starts to crash.
www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-completes-36-million-3999548
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/grahamsmith/2012/02/bv_email_29th_february_2072.html
The cursed Langarth project is apparently, in Councillor Egerton’s words, finally 'over the line'.
We sincerely hope he is pleased with himself, because the people who pay his wages most certainly are not!
In the current awful situation we are in, this is even less cause for satisfaction than it would be in more normal times, Councillor Egerton, Planner Mason, Councillor Mark Kaczmarek and other assorted Kremlin Kernow minions, have nothing whatsoever to be proud of.
Their legacy for Cornwall will be an unfathomable ocean of debt and the trashing by concrete of yet another pristine Cornish Valley.
Meanwhile the developer spivs have pulled it off and will be laughing all the way to the bank.
The real loser is the gullible farmer who sold Langarth to Inox who has been rumoured to have had serious doubts about it all after the event when Inox had him trussed up like an oven ready turkey and HMRC had claimed their tribute.
Below are some comments from members of the public (source verified).
1- They're brainwashed fools that have been hoodwinked by Inox et al.
2- We can only hope that there's a silver lining to this crisis in the form that all the major developers, if this carries on for any length of time, might just go bust.
3- Given there's social distancing, Lys Kernow must be operating on a work at home basis or drastically reducing numbers at meetings.
4- In terms of transparency/democracy, how and are, they still voting on planning applications? If they are, surely we should be questioning why.
5- £36m of OUR money at a rate of £360,000/acre to build a town NOBODY wants or needs and to destroy Truro and the lives of those in it. Farmland around Truro was worth around £10,000/acre until the complete and utter moronic fools at Cornwall Council agreed to prop up bent speculators, bullies and crooks; God they must be laughing at us.
6- If the Council had any sense at all these dangerous fools would now realise that the best thing would be to use this land for food production.
7- But I can't see the £3m Cameron promised for the stadium being high on the government's agenda right now - nor if and when the epidemic dies down......and we can all think of better things that OUR £3million which the Council pledged toward the stadium could be spent on!
www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/have-your-say/the-cornwall-we-want
What a one-sided conversation this will be highly unlikely to listen to a word that is said!
But it will be said anyway. My statement to Cornwall Council made on the form below:
Most certainly not what the current trajectory is going to deliver, e.g. a congested polluted discriminatory crime-ridden hell hole in the image of Milton Keynes on Sea.
Sewage pollution is the issue Cornwall Council refuses to discuss preferring to let SWW use the massive connection fees paid by developers to pay enhanced dividends to shareholders rather than invest in its creaking network where every new house that comes online exacerbates the problem of leaks and overflows into watercourses.
This has led to an explosion of nasty waterborne pathogens that have seen an unusually high incidence of hepatitis E in Cornwall's surfing community and the locally important shellfish industry in the Fal Estuary being seriously compromised.
This is even before the majority of the now 60,000 and rising housing target has really got fully under way leading to growing calls for a building embargo to be imposed until SWW future proofs its sewer network and sewage treatment works.
A growing database of evidence proves beyond reasonable doubt that the problems are not isolated and are not going to go away.
Playing the inter agency blame game will simply not cut the mustard.
What if anything does Cornwall Council propose doing about this very serious issue?
Towns & villages # of Supporters
Penzance-Newlyn-Helston-St Ives-Hayle 1,289
Redruth-Pool-Camborne 1,268
Bodmin-Liskeard-Wadebridge-Launceston-Bude-Saltash 1,213
Truro-Threemilestone-Roseland-Chacewater 1,094
St Austell-Clay Country-Lostwithiel-Fowey-Par 937
Newquay-Quintrell Downs-Perranporth-St Agnes 869
Falmouth-Penryn-Mawnan-Mylor 684
CORNWALL 7,354
Cornish expats / Others: 3,996
(of which)
Plymouth 202
Exeter/Other Devon 307
London 188
Cardiff/Wales 161
Edinburgh/Glasgow/Scotland 125
Other W. Europe 158
USA/Canada 108
Australia/NZ 87
Total (31-03-2020) 11,350