From a resident of St. Austell, who’s watched much of Clay country disappear under a blanket of Wain Homes and other expensive and toxic concrete, mostly of poor quality but priced to attract London/SE buyers, escaping the development mess up there:
“West Carclaze Garden Village started out life as an "eco-town" and it'll be 1,500 homes on the outskirts of St Austell when finished. A handful of said houses have been erected in the last couple of months.
With White River shopping centre about to go under the hammer and a lot of empty units in the town, do you see progress to have a whole new village or destruction?
I tried to ignore the building site and focus on signs of spring.“
Even the police in Hayle are objecting the farcical harbour development which aims to replace generations old, hard working local fishermen, with more exorbitantly priced second homes for the wealthy tourists. This has to be wrong, surely?!!
www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/police-object-major-hayle-harbour-4961949
If you’re in the signing mood, then this still needs your urgent attention and support:
New Langarth Garden City (whatever that means) between black alert Treliske Hospital and chaotic Chiverton Cross:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-killing-cornwall-reverse-council-agendas
Another iconic Cornish Head being used for selfish, greedy development:
https://cornishstuff.com/2021/02/25/rame-head-campaigners-made-to-wait
The fishermen of Cadgwith fighting back and winning – great story here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/cadgwith-fishing-cove-trust
One resident of Newquay isn’t happy:
“I lived in Newquay for a long time and a friend over there sent me this link, a 4 bed end of terrace on Charlie Boy's new 'village' Nansledan... built in 2019, but check the scaffolding already up to repair the next door property. I watched them build these, framing in the pouring rain, rendering on days of endless mizzle, etc etc etc, then check the price!!! This shit (sic) is what we are up against. Would you pay £425,000 for this, heller?! It ain't even near the sea or any countryside, it's on a main road!!
www.strattoncreber.co.uk/buy/property/4-bedroom-end-of-terrace-house-nansledan-tr8-ref-5391015
For those who think we need more (unaffordable) housing in Cornwall, when deaths outstrip births every year (or as the council has accepted for several year now: every new house is aimed at net in-migration), there’s estimated to currently some 25,000 empty homes in Cornwall:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/properties-left-empty-for-years-could-house-everyone-in-oxford-cws3p0lf2
These words again, which are exactly what is happening for a large number of people across Cornwall and beyond:
“Reading these comments, it feels to me as if what many people are trying to articulate is their sense of anger and sadness over what has been lost - the sense of real, integrated communities, the steady, unruffled aspect to Cornish life before the masses came, the disappearance of what used to be 'Cornish Society', the space, quiet and sense of remoteness, the cohesion of traditional architecture, the sense of stability. Even the landscapes lose their beauty when over-run and crowded out and the sense of Cornwall as being truly rural is fading fast.
Now we are subjected to a physical, economic and cultural degradation caused by the continual interference by external (money-grabbing) interests, the 'over-selling' of Cornwall and the tourist industry, mass urbanisation and a Council that does not appear to understand, or care about, Cornwall.”
Photo is West Carclaze