Hayle

4.  Extract from the West Briton 28th January 2010

Hayle supermarket

There has been a lot of public interest in the supermarket proposals for Hayle. We have received planning applications from ING for South Quay and Sainsbury’s for Marsh Lane. The ING South Quay application is at an early stage and we are awaiting responses from consultees including Natural England, English Heritage and the Highways Agency. Some responses have been received to date but we do not expect to receive all responses until the beginning of February. We are in the early stages of discussion with two other interested supermarkets, both of whom have indicated they will be submitting applications in February or March and also carrying out public consultation but have yet to set dates. With four supermarkets interested in Hayle,
Cornwall Councillors Pollard and Coombe, supported by Council officers, will ensure that the public have all the information they need to make informed comments on each application and will continue to encourage the supermarkets to present their proposals to Hayle residents through public exhibitions and presentations before Cornwall Council determines the applications. Copies of both the ING and Sainsbury’s planning applications are available to view at the Hayle Town Council office on Queensway, Hayle and at Penzance One Stop Shop at St Clare, Penzance.

For further information please write to Planning & Regeneration, Cornwall Council, St. Clare, Penzance, TR18 3QW or send an email to planning.westl @comwall.gov.uk.

 

3. The Debate heats up - Composit of a letter sent to the West Briton 28th January 2010

Public meeting raises concerns but will the ‘pressured’ council listen

AT last, we were treated to a public meeting that exhibited a demonstration of the way that democracy should be balanced, with common sense resulting in a very sensible conclusion. Sometimes, the majority are wrong, which unfortunately leaves representative bodies to make ‘unpopular’ decisions by agreeing and voting in favour of something which, shall we say, the majority cannot understand. But last Thursday, the residents of Angarrack and Hayle were witnesses to, and participants of, a public discussion at the Hayle town offices on two of the latest of many supermarket proposals intending to gridlock the town and neighbouring villages. Town Mayor, Mr John Coombe, charismatically invited questions from the 50-plus angry residents present, who correctly raised a whole series of logical concerns and reasons for opposing these developments. The fact that we already have such obvious major traffic problems right through Hayle from Foundry to Loggans and also at the A30 Marsh Lane interchange; one would think that anyone with half a braincell residing in County Hall would never give more than a second of thought to wasting both people’s time and taxpayers’ money on an application for a supermarket; never mind one at Marsh Lane, one at the rugby club and one on South Quay. We all know that a supermarket in Marsh Lane, Loggan’s Moor, or the rugby club, incidentally which are all the same, would not only destroy the environment of a village life, greatly destroy the affect of local wildlife, but would also screw up the local traffic flow. It was a pleasure to see that the vast majority of Hayle town councillors were emphasising the same and similar concerns to that of the people that elected them, while poor Mr Jeremy Content, the county planning officer, did his best to support the supermarkets; but really only succeeded in displaying another example of possible council incompetence with statements including “I don’t know how we can take a decision today - it’s up to the council if they wish to make a decision without the Highways agreeing to it - and a supermarket doesn’t necessarily have to show that there’s a need for it”.

But the one that made me stand up and listen was “There is pressure put on Cornwall Council to look at these developments in a positive way!” Well Mr Content, I can only assume that this ‘pressure’ is the same stupid pressure put on them for us to accept all of their mass house building programmes. Well there you have it, although Hayle Town Council opposed these planning proposals, the fact that the majority of residents and local businesses from Foundry to Angarrack do not want them, the fact that the Environment Agency has opposed them, the fact that Cornwall Wildlife Trust has opposed them and the fact that the Highways certainly have not approved it should be a clear enough message for County Hall for them not to waste any more of our taxes reviewing these planning applications. Unfortunately for me, that slip of the tongue about council pressure may keep me awake for just a few more months. DEREK ELLIOTT

 

 

2. HAYLE

From a report in the West Briton 27th August

The massive planned build of over 1,000 homes in Hayle’s South Quay has been changed. The Dutch developer ING Real Estate Development has changed its proposal to reduce the number of dwellings by 200 homes (which means that around 35 of the predicted 175 so called ‘affordable’ homes will not now be built.

In place of the 200 houses now dropped from the plan, ING will, instead, build a superstore.

We note that he outline planning permission granted last March by the then Penwith District Council did not include any reference to a superstore.

ING have said that the store will be built from a point 1.35m above the current quay level, will be 3 stories high, but will “not be higher” than the viaduct.

As a concession to public feeling, ING will repair parts of the Quay wall which is in disrepair.

By TA:

Despite all the concerns voiced in the past, including the obvious traffic congestion which in excess of 1,000 homes will produce, particularly at the roundabout at the nearby A30 junction, this project seems set to proceed. A superstore on site will increase traffic levels in the town as people are attracted to the site.

Whilst the area in question needs a serious revamp, a garden and/or other amenities for the existing populace must, in our opinion, be preferable to what is planned.

Let’s hope that the residents of Hayle are happy with what they are getting !

 

1. Info extracted from the CoSERG website. Yet another supermarket for the Hayle area:

This is Cornwall, 28 June 2009

Plans for a Sainsbury’s supermarket and filling station on the outskirts of Hayle were formally unveiled last week. Details of the proposed 32,000 sq ft store, complete with 366-space car park, went on show at the Passmore Edwards Institute on Friday and Saturday. Representatives from the supermarket giant dished out feedback forms and fielded questions from the public ahead of preparing a formal request for planning permission to Cornwall Council.

 Nick Bradshaw, Sainsbury’s highways consultant, said the scheme would include lane improvements and traffic lights at the Loggan’s Moor roundabout. “Parking is at a premium at West Cornwall retail park and we think our development will help alleviate this,” he said.

 CoSERG Comment
Sainsbury’s proposal for a new store on the outskirts of Hayle has serious implications, particularly for traffic in the area. The store will generate considerable levels of extra traffic. Such a store will attract traffic not only from Hayle but further west – St. Ives and Penzance and also east along the A30 from Camborne-Redruth. Adding traffic lights, and ‘improving’ junctions to accommodate the extra traffic is a short term palliative. There is a fundamental contradiction between the objective of the retailer – to maximise customer numbers and the need to reduce car traffic. In essence out of town shopping centres with ‘free’ car parking should be discouraged.

 More from source…www.thisiscornwall.co.uk

YET MORE BUILDING GOING ON

A local newspaper report on 26th March 2009 states that planning permission has been granted for a development in Hayle which will include 1,039 houses. It is claimed that the chairman of the Hayle Chamber of Commerce stated that he wants to stem the exodus of talented youngsters  leaving Hayle and, “The students who have gone up country cannot come home until there are jobs and housing in the county” “We want this to get going and we want it to start now”

We assume that he is speaking for the residents of Hayle  ? ?

The head of sustainable development in Penwith, reports the paper, has revealed that the Secretary of State would not intervene in the process and planners are free to sidestep policies preventing building on farmland.

Relating to this statement we found a report in a National newspaper on the same day stating that the housing minister, Margaret Beckett, wants councils in rural areas to make more use of a scheme which allows permission for homes to be built on greenbelt land or surrounding historic villages. Beckett has called for the planning policy to be made more flexible to make it easier to get planning permission in rural areas.

EXTRACT FROM THE HAYLE AAP

This addendum is a supplemental addition to the Issues and Options paper for the Hayle Area Action Plan. It has been prepared to update details about the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West (RSS) following publication of the Independent Panel’s report of the Examination in Public. The Independent Panel’s report identifies Hayle, along with Penzance and St Ives, as a sizeable market town which has considerable potential for sustainable housing provision which should, in the Panel’s view, be fully exploited to complement the regeneration of Camborne/Pool/Redruth. The Draft RSS includes a requirement for 4,800 dwellings to be provided in Penwith during the plan period 2006 – 2026. However, a projection by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2003 sets the requirement at 7,738 dwellings. Given the potential identified, the view of the Independent Panel is that there is no reason why thehigher figure (rounded to 7,800) should not be met. This figure, it is advised, will be for Local Development Documents, such as the Penwith Core Strategy and Hayle Area Action Plan, to distribute as part of the Local Development Framework process.The Secretary of State for Communities will now consider the Independent Panel’s recommendations and representations made on the Draft RSS. Proposed changes will be published for further public consultation in Spring 2008. This will lead to publication of a final version of the RSS in Autumn 2008. Although it should be noted that no decisions have yet been taken on any of the Independent Panel’s recommendations, it is appropriate that the Penwith Core Strategy and Hayle Area Action Plan should anticipate potentially higher housing requirement figures. Assuming that a requirement for 7,800 dwellings for Penwith is ultimately included in the final version of the RSS, taking account of existing commitments gives a remaining district-wide requirement of 6,356 dwellings. Proportionately, the requirement for Hayle (based onthe Preferred Option for housing distribution developed as part of the Penwith CoreStrategy) would be 3,250 dwellings, reduced to 3,128 dwellings taking account of existing commitments. The Issues & Options paper was prepared on the basis of the figures included in the Draft RSS and emerging Penwith Core Strategy. However, given the recommendations of the Independent Panel, it is possible that additional land will need to be identified and allocated in order to meet increased requirements. The map accompanying the Issues & Options paper identifies a number of potential development sites in and around Hayle, including in particular the option of a broad growth area to the south of the town off the Penpol Road – St George’s Road – High Lanes – Viaduct Hill  ’corridor’. Depending on the densityof development together with the incorporation of necessary community facilities, and also assessment of the develop-ability and deliver-ability of other potential sites, the growth area may need to be extended. Therefore, in completing the questionnaire which accompanies the Issues & Options paper, respondents are asked to consider this particular issue and provide comments as appropriate

TA assumes that the Government is in a bit of a panic over houses because of a failed policy over the last 12 years of having virtually open borders and now find that thousands of new homes are required.
There also seems to be an odious and idiotic mindset pervading some of our so called community leaders at the moment, that if we see an empty space we should build on it. This will continue until the entire Country is covered in concrete unless we, normal residents going about our daily tasks, do something to stop it.
What about the councillors we are going to vote for at the next local election, what are their views on this and what has been their voting history on the subject? We can find out using the freedom of information act.
What about our MPs and the next general election, are we going to vote for a party who wants to perpetuate this process as Beckett has implied, or do we want MPs who will challenge the Government when we, the people, think they have overstepped the mark?

MAKE THE POWER OF DEMOCRACY WORK. - THE COUNCILLORS AND THE MPs WORK FOR US. - GET THEM TO RAISE OUR CONCERNS. - REMEMBER, UNLESS WE TELL THEM, THEY WON’T KNOW.

 


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