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6. Heartlands - The AAP for the area is on hold until after the general election, but there is still a huge amount of building still planned outside the scope of the RSS, and a lot of it is planned for the Heartlands area. 

Heartlands is an open area of space which could have been kept as an open area of space and improved with footpaths and flowering shrubs at minimal cost. Instead, some £20M of lottery cash has been secured to build a ‘recreational’ area in the middle of the open space. Much of it is concrete with a smattering of shops and restaurants and of course, now, the almost mandatory business units  and flats (Apologies, apartments) above. Why the middle? - because around the outside, on the remainder of the open space which is left is going to be, guess what?  An assortment of industrial units and a further 400 - 500 more houses.

We wonder who is going to do the building, Midas Homes possibly ?

If you live in the Pool area and are presently trying to negotiate the hotch potch new junction at the top of Tuckingmill, bad news, you are going to get another 1,000 cars and commercial vehicles trying to guess their way through it as well.

To the local residents we would say, If you dont want it, voice your views to your Cornwall Councillor, your Local Councillor, the newspapers and anybody else you can think of, or you will get it in the name of regeneration

 

5. SOUTH CROFTY/ DUDNANCE LANE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 

At last Wednesdays (21stOct) meeting of the TA committee, Mark Smith, the Business Development Manager for CRP Regeneration (Urban Regeneration Company Ltd) gave a presentation on the Dudnance Lane/South Crofty Development Framework.

After development in conjunction with CPR Regeneration, Cornwall Council, Western United Mines, SWDRA, Key Developers, Councillors, Agencies, Statutory Consultees with PBWC Architects in support, a planned regeneration has been produced.

On their website David Brewer, chairman of CPR Regeneration, said: “For the first time we will be presenting a framework for regeneration this part of Pool that accommodates the ambitions of Western United Mines and all the regeneration agencies”

In a straw poll local residents around the area and people who frequent it are generally unaware of the magnitude or detail of the development and have had no input into its format.

But, fear not, a public consultation took place this Friday (23rd October) before the plans are to be finalised.

BY TA. It seems that we are going to be regenerated whether we, the public, want it or not, however, on 23rdOct we are going to be invited to make comments. Will that change anything?? A recent comment suggested that we, the local residents, may influence whether it be tulips or daffodils planted in whatever green spaces remain. Cynical ?, maybe, but gives weight to the underlying feeling that the plans are agreed by an assortment of agencies and the public, who have to live with it, have a very limited input under a flawed planning process. At present agencies tell us want we are going to get. Shouldn’t it be that we, the public, tell the planners what we want? The present system is driven from the top down. TA considers that the process should be reversed. We can, if we wish, maintain the status quo and have a set of building plans forced on us by a group of people who will move on to pastures new once we capitulate, or, if you agree that the whole system is dictatorial and undemocratic, talk to your MP about it and get it changed.

For those who didn’t realise that we needed regenerating or would like to look at the board of Directors and their other interests, TA would suggest a look at the following link:  HERE

 4. CONSULTATION DOCUMENT   SOUTH CROFTY/ DUDNANCE LANE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK      

A full consultation exhibition will be open to members of the public an Friday 23rd October from 10.30 to 8.00pm.This will be held at the Berlewen Building, Pool, formally the School of Mines building. Trelawney alliance will be there and we hope you will be able to make it.  

 WHAT IT’S ABOUT.   This exhibition will show a development framework for the South Crofty / Dudnance Lane area- jointly developed and presented by CPR Regeneration / Western United Mines / Cornwall Council / South West Regional Development Agency. Proposals for the new mine and office development will also be shown  

Now quoting from CPR -   ‘This Development Framework willl form an agreed plan within which new development proposals can come forward.  Western United Mines will exhibit options for a new mine and processing plant to be submitted before the end of the year.  CPR Regeneration will be showing outline proposals for new quality office development at East Hill. In addition the Council itself has just submitted a planning application for he remaining section of East West link across this land. The new mine proposal, if approved, will free up land in the central area for new housing development, leisure and open space and to deliver the new road scheme’.

3. The has been a public exhibition and consultation on the latest draft Tuckingmill framework plan, responding to recent changes. Details include: 

The new alignment of the East West link road. - TA are not in a position to comment on statements made by members of the public that this road will now be bulldozed through a World Heritage Site to preserve the Tesco car park. Perhaps the planners would comment on this concern. True or not?

2. Conversion of the Fuseworks buildings

A safeguarded site for a POTENTIAL future school - is there going to be one or not? This seems to be planning by if and maybe

OPTIONS for community facilities - What options? Is there going to be an Olympic swimming pool or a single swing on a square meter of grass, who knows!

and of course, the now almost mandatory high profit housing sites. How many more hundred houses are going to be inflicted on Camborne?

TA again are not in a position to comment on the statement made that some members of the board of the CPR regeneration group have other interests which would benefit from building work and additional homes, other than these other interests have been declared and that there is a reference to this topic in the West Briton (8th Oct) letters page.

It seems that we are going to be regenerated with more housing added whether we want it or not!

CoSERG have produced a detailed and in depth comment on these plans 

Follow link  HERE

1. The Totals

Dudnance Lane       320 homes, 7,000sqm Office space, 20,000 covered leisure space, together with supporting ancillary uses such as cafes and restaurants, a car park and a hotel
Trevenson Rd          540 homes, 25,000sqm Office space, 8,000sqm Hotel accommodation, and a car park
Barncoose Terrace 45 homes
Forth Kegyn              Undefined area allocated for industrial use
Barncoose Industrial Estate - Undefined area allocated for industrial use
Cornwall College     Retained for educational uses
Station Rd West      Undefined area allocated for retail uses. Residential accommodation on upper storeys
Station Rd East       Undefined area allocated for retail uses.

Summary - These figures were extracted from the Area Action Plan (AAP) Feb 2009. The above figures are as recorded on page 18 of the report and total 905. However, the map on page 8 of the same report appear to read 1,200 in total. Perhaps the planners would like to enlighten us.

The population recorded in 2000 was 2,570 and is now estimated to be in the region of 4,000. 1,200 homes could increase the population by 3,000 (based on 2.5 people per home) which equates to an increase of 75%

We assume 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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