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86.  County Hall Meeting re Treswithian A30 Juction  Link  HERE
85.  Public meeting re Treswithian & Press reports with comments  Link  HERE
84.  New page added MEETINGS - Detail of meeting with local MP. Link HERE
83.  West Briton Reports & TA comments.  Link HERE
82.  Opposition to planned build at Portreath. Full detail link  HERE 
81.  More building planned for Tuckingmill. Full detail link  HERE
80.  CoSERG report on scrapping of the RSS.  Link  HERE
79.  West Briton reports.  Link HERE
78.  BBC Radio Cornwall on the RSS.  Link to be added soon
77.  RSS Scrapped.   Link  HERE
76.  Letter to the Planning Inspectorate  Link  HERE
75.  School place shortage even without the planned building  Link  HERE
74.  Delevoper wins appeal in St Austell   Link  HERE
73.  BBC Radio Cornwall - CCC Hicks Interview re planning  Link  HERE
72.  West Briton Reports  Link  HERE
71.  Letter to CC M Kaczmarak re homes in Caharrack   Link HERE
70.  Letter to the Leader of the Council  Link  HERE
69.  Flood Risks - St Austell link HERE and Portreath Link HERE
68.  Carbis Bay Planning Application Refused   Link  HERE
67.  Copy of letter to the Western Morning News re Planning Meeting 2nd March (Item 9)   Link  HERE
66.  Comment relating to response from a councillor re  Planning Meeting 2nd March  Link  HERE 
65.  Letter to the Planning Inspectrorate re Planning Meeting 2nd March (Item 8)   Link  HERE
64.  Comments relating to CPRI new build plans    Link  HERE
63.  Another planning application granted for mass build in Camborne    Link  HERE
62.  The future for Cornwall & building towards 1.2 Million  Link  HERE
61.  Letter to CC M Kaczmarek re PFI finding  - Link  HERE
60.  Letter to WB implying that we are propery owning wrinklies - Link HERE
59.  Town Coucil recomends refusal of PP at Pengegon  -  Link  HERE
58.  Overdevelopment of CPRI may add to Portreath flood risk  -  Link  HERE
57.  THF Homes to appeal over PP refusal  -  Link  HERE
56.  Open letter to all Cornwall Councillors - Link  HERE
55.  Heartlands at Pool  -  Link  HERE
54.  The AAP for CPRI is now on hold - Link  HERE
53.  Letter to the WB from Councillors Hicks & Kaczmarek & the TA response -  Link  HERE
52.  Connor Downs development of ‘affordable’ homes (Interest to West Tolgus) - Link HERE
51.  Camborne new East West Road - Link  HERE
50.  CC Staement regarding supermarkets in Hayle - Link HERE
49.  Supermarkets in Hayle - Link  HERE
48.  TA group on Facebook - Link  HERE
47.  Council meeting on AAP for CPRI - Link  HERE
46.  Trelawney Alliance meeting 15/01/10 - Link HERE
45.  Questions to Councillor Kaczmarek - Link HERE
44.  Questions to Councillor Hicks - Link HERE
43.  News Item - West Tolgus from the West Briton 7th Jan 2010 - Link  HERE
42.  News Item - CRIP from the West Briton 7th Jan 2010 - Link HERE
41. TA now has a group onFacebook - Comments welcome for a direct link  HERE

40. BBC Radio Cornwall Interview - Cornwall Councillor M Kaczmarek pleads for greenfield land for building    HERE

39. Members of the TA committee attended the inaugral meeting of the West Tolgus Residents Accociation on 2nd Dec. The meeting was well attended by about 30 residents who discussed the plans by a developer to build a small estate of 15 houses (with room for expansion) on a greenfield site at West Tolgus. It was generally considered by the residents that the plans should be opposed and TA pledged support. It is hoped that there will be another public meeting before Christmas with representatives of the developer in attendance in the hope to obtain more details of what they intend to do. More info  HERE
38. Although non-political TA has found this message of support on one political party website.  link  HERE
37. Meeting notes between J Buddle(TAG) & M Brown (Planning) This report is item 5 on our letters page and contains some very interesting observations on questions raised.   link HERE
36. CPRE response to building plans in Cam/Red/Pool/Illog. This report is item 4 on our letters page and although being several months old shows similarity to the aims of Trelawney Alliance.  link HERE
35. Planning proposal on West Tolgus greenfield site - For comment see our REDRUTH page. External link here
34. Letter to leader of Corwall Council sent - see our LETTERS page
33. Further update on Dudnance/South Crofty - See Our POOL page
32. TRURO MEETING - TA attended a meeting in Truro on 8th October
Further Info on our Truro page and a report on the meeting  HERE

31. Interesting News Items

Here is a couple of news items reported in the Western Morning News 21/22 Sept related to the Lib Dems conference:

1. WE REPRESENT BEAUTIFUL BRITON. Tim Farron, the party’s rural affairs spokesman, in a bid to secure the rural vote, claims that the Lib Dems have become the party of beautiful Briton.

However

2. THE REGION SHOULD BECOME HOME TO MORE MIGRANTS. The South West should be FORCED to become home to more immigrants, the Lib Dems claimed as they backed regional points-based immigration to ease pressure on the overcrowded South East (of England)
The aim of the system is to encourage immigrants to settle in areas with gaps in population and employment. Party members hope this would ease pressure on services in parts of the country stretched by the inflow from abroad.
Home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne hailed the points based system as a “step in the right direction” although it still failed to offer a “hard-headed assessment of the needs of different regions and parts of the economy” .He said: “Too few are in areas crying out for more population. We need a system that attracts migrants to those areas”

By TA: Could it be that the present party in power and the Lib Dems are working hand in glove on this issue? In Cornwall are being told by the present government that we must have almost 70,000 houses built here, which in many areas will be over and above the already high annual build rate. Is the real reason then to home immigrants from the overcrowded South East of England?
The two statements appear to be a contradiction by saying let’s maintain a beautiful Briton by building an excessive number of houses on it to home immigrants.

As far as the points system is concerned, which they appear to endorse, It would seem that even they don’t know how it will work! So much for forward planning and joined up thinking!

The phrase Wake up and smell the coffee springs to mind.

If you live in an area which is, quote ‘crying out for more population‘ we would be interested to hear where it is.

TA would recommend you contact your local MP (Here in Cornwall at the moment it will be a Lib Dem) and ask for an explanation on how the points system works, is Huhnes’ statement a result of interaction with the idiot scheme of mass building planned in Cornwall. What are the plans by the Lib Dems to expand the infrastructure (Presumably if they intend to encourage migrants into the area they must have a solution to the obvious problem) and importantly, where will the employment opportunities come from?

30. The figures for local need vary depending on which report you read, and these are the so called ‘affordable’ homes. TA fully supports this need, however, the definition of ‘affordable’ in the pricing context appears to be 30% (or so) of the open market value. Therefore in a new estate where the planned sale price on the open market is intended to be £200,000 the small section of ‘affordable’ homes provided by the developer will be in the region of £140,000 - Given that mortgage lenders are looking at loan amounts of some 4 times annual salaries, it means that a potential buyer would need to be earning £35,000 per year to afford to buy one outright.

TA feels that a more sensible approach to ‘affordable’ would be to fix the price of affordability to costs plus a developers profit of 10% and this would mean, assuming the freehold cost of the land and building were to be £80,000 - the cost of the home

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