Shame on Cornwall Council! Shame on Cornwall's Planners!

Link: https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19410063.cadgwith-fisherman-tommy-phillips-denied-home-despite-cornwall-house-prices/

Do Cornwall's planners and councillors need to re-think their priorities? 

For several years now, we have said a very firm yes! 

Has anyone visited seaside towns and villages recently and seen the destruction caused by speculative and out of character development and by the scourge of second homes and Air BnBs? 

In Carbis Bay woodland was destroyed to allow for a G7 Summit. The legacy? Spiralling Covid rates caused by that event as confirmed by journalist Andrew Marr and the return of tourism. 

We have been sent a copy of an email written by a Conservative Cornwall Councillor, one of those elected by 15% of Cornwall's overall electorate because most have given up on voting, which confirms this was anticipated back in March. This has been sent to the media.

Portreath is a classic example of a damaged seaside village. Some of our team were there today photographing some of the horrible structures which have cluttered the hillsides. What a mess! 

That's because big money speaks in Cornwall whilst the Cornish people are condemned to a sub standard life in caravans, on boats and on sofas belonging to others, a sub species destined to serve the tourists with their ice creams, a sub species queuing at the food banks, to which the truly great Don Gardner invited Johnson to visit whilst quaffing his expensive wines at the G7 fiasco. This is the Johnson who never even had the courtesy to respond to our Don.

We are witnessing the cleansing of an indigenous people before our very eyes by calculated population movement.

Permission has been handed out to mega-developers to build thousands of hotch potch houses to meet external demand and to squeeze speculative money out of our Cornwall yet a local fisherman from a longstanding Cornish family who could never aspire to own the houses being built for incomers and second and even third homeowners has been refused permission to build one house.

Read about this disgusting affair here: https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19410063.cadgwith-fisherman-tommy-phillips-denied-home-despite-cornwall-house-prices/

Isn't it odd that objections raised by so many in respect of other developments by big developers go unheeded but suddenly become relevant and are taken carefully in to account when dealing with a local fisherman?

We have therefore circulated this to every Cornwall Councillor (bar one who we refuse to deal with), to all six of the MPs in Cornwall and to the wider media including overseas with this message for Cornwall Council......SHAME ON YOU!

It happened before and it may happen again - a blockade at Cornwall Council's offices in Truro!