Tag Archives: housing

Support a visible and peaceful protest against overdevelopment

Dear Friends, First a “thank you” for those sharing the petition http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/protect-cornwall-s-green-fields so widely on social media; we’ve had over 13,000 shares on Facebook and nearly 6,500 petition signatures. As…

Heartlands – “where the future is as historic as the past”?: Part 2

In part 1, we learned quite a lot about the 19 acre World Heritage free visitor site in Pool near Redruth,  named ‘Heartlands’. Linda Joy Lemon continues to explore this…

Heartlands – “where the future is as historic as the past”?: Part 1

By Linda Joy Lemon The 19 acre World Heritage free visitor site in Pool near Redruth, opened its doors over a year ago, in April 2012. Heartlands, once part of…

Blood Boiling Over Glasney Valley Development

– By David Garwood  I’m coming in to the story of Glasney Valley development a bit late. Last year they unveiled the proposal for 500 homes, but other schemes have…

Cornwall heading for the suburban dream .. don’t mind the concrete

Cornwall Council has voted 58 to 33 for 42,250 additional dwellings to be built in the Duchy by 2030. The pre-submission draft of the Local Plan – which will set…

Unlike Iceland, we can thank our lucky stars

Unlike Iceland, we can thank our lucky stars We, who populate the Duchy of Cornwall, tend to spend far too much time, watching & oft  times criticising our English &…

[Its our Cornwall] Tell them enough is enough!

Concerned by housing development proposals for Coyte Farm (and all the others)? Incensed at the insult to the Tristan stone? Fuming at the feebleness of councillors to stand up for…

[Trelawney Alliance] Stop the Mass Destruction of Cornwall

On 11th December Cornwall Council will decide on its housing target for the next 20 years. Councillors will be asked to support a motion to build 48,500 houses out of…

[Our Cornwall] CORE Strategy Incoherent

A NEW pressure group has been formed to fight against plans to build 48,000 new homes across Cornwall over the next 20 years. Our Cornwall has been formed by members…

[Bewans Kernow] Equality impact of ‘Core Strategy’ for Cornwall

Bewnans Kernow writes this week:  “Cornwall Council is in the process of preparing a ‘Core Strategy for Cornwall’ which proposes the building of 48,000 new houses in 20 years.  This…