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MK candidates for the 2013 Cornwall Council elections

Nomination for the 2013 Cornwall Council elections on Thursday 2 May, 2013 have been published. Mebyon Kernow-The Party for Cornwall (MK) is as yet not able to field candidates for…

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…

Lavery slings his hook

Kevin Lavery, chief executive of Cornwall Council, will be leaving his post to take up a new job in New Zealand, in Wellington, the capital city. UK and corporate apparatchik…

Shame as Cornwall Council breaches Tax Payers trust

An Open Letter: “It is with some alarm that I see Cornwall Council has outsourced enquiries in respect of those in receipt of a sole occupier’s Council Tax Rebate to…

[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…

[Cornwall Waste Forum] Independent Report Identifies £320m Savings

An independent report has identified up to £320 million in potential savings that could be made by Cornwall Council – if it were prepared to look at alternatives to its…

[Mebyon Kernow] Candidate for Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth by-election

Nominations closed on Friday 9th November for the Cornwall Council by-election for a casual vacancy in Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth. There are a total of seven candidates seeking to fill…

[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…

[Mebyon Kernow] Services Privatisation a ‘Nonsense’

Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall, has hit out at the decision of Conservative-led Consel Kernow /Cornwall Council, to part-privatise a series of key services. Cornwall Council is in…

Visit the Duchy

Cornwall’s ‘tourism board’ will now be advertising Cornwall all over the world as a Duchy, Celtic region and emphasising Cornwall’s unique culture and heritage. This follows ongoing criticism from Cornish…