Charter

CHARTER

Trelawney Alliance is a group of Cornish residents already with a registered membership and several hundreds of additional local supporters.

The self funding, non-political group, officially formed at the beginning of 2009, although many members had been individually involved in the aims of Trelawney Alliance for several years prior to this.

The aims of Trelawney Alliance are multiple and are outlined by the major points below:

Trelawney Alliance is administered by the committee and was formed to represent the local public on aspects of:

Maintaining of the quality of life pertinent to the specific area, in particular rural communities.
The protection of Greenfield sites and agricultural land.
The need to change the undesirable ‘top down’ planning process.
The correct usage of Brownfield sites.
The protection of wildlife habitat.
The maintaining of heritage sites

To achieve these aims the following are the major issues of concentration:

1. The prevention of all mass house building plans under the RSS (or similar), specifically in the Camborne, Redruth, Pool and Illogan areas of Cornwall.11,100 homes are planned for this area alone, generally on Greenfield agricultural sites. Rather than the presently defined community boundaries surviving, these plans will transform the area into one huge urban sprawl.
One example is the case where, in the small rural village of Park Bottom with currently 580 homes, there are now plans to build an additional 2,350 homes, totally destroying the present way of village life.

These plans are mainly in addition to the already high ongoing year on year building activities.

TA consider that this has little to do with local need or requirement, but is being forced on local residents by a combination of Government targets and developer greed.

2. The prevention of over-development of open spaces and Greenfield land.The Camborne, Redruth, Pool area, as many in Cornwall, have significant unemployment issues. TA therefore welcomes the factory and office units planned in the Pool area and feels that this could satisfy a proportion of the already existing employment need. However, by over-development and combining the employment units with mass house building, migration into the area will be encouraged. To name but a few factors, this in turn will lead to overpopulation, much greater road congestion than presently being experienced, destruction of wildlife habitat and a general reduction in the local quality of the traditional semi- rural life style.

 

3. The prevention of destruction or alteration to any Cornish heritage building or sites as recognised as unique to CornwallThese are many and various and a wary eye needs to be kept on where exactly developers intend to establish building projects. One recent example is the planned East-West link road from Camborne to Pool which will run through a World Heritage Site which, even if no historic buildings are destroyed, will damage its heritage status. As an example Bartles Foundry is unique to Cornwall and will be bulldozed by this new road. Although just outside the World Heritage site envelope, this historic building will be lost forever.

 

4. Support for local need housingTA supports the need for local need housing. However the present definition of so called ‘affordable’ homes is ill defined and will remain unaffordable to many local residents due to Cornwall operating, in the main, a low wage economy.

 

Whilst local need housing is a requirement, developers will only produce about 30% or less of these so called ‘affordable’ homes in any development, thus producing, by definition, 70% which are unaffordable for local need, so exacerbating inward migration and unsustainable population growth’

5. Channelling of informationBy means of our website, www.trelawney-alliance.org , and public meetings, our aim is to alert and notify local area residents and those in greater Cornwall of exactly what plans are proposed (In the whole of Cornwall 68.200 houses are planned by 2026 under the RSS alone).This is mainly in addition to a high year on year build rate.

 

6. Formation of a coalition with other groups TA has always sought alignment with other like minded groups in Cornwall and beyond. Whist recognising the fact that each group will have particular issues for their local area, we are convinced that a mechanism for sharing information and the provision of support to other areas is an essential factor if we are to prevent mass building programs, irrespective whether they be sanctioned by central or local Government, or just as financial opportunities seen by numerous and assorted developers of varying quality.


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