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Monthly Archives: November 2014
INOX’s Langarth: a place to question
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 15, 2014 INOX of Exeter has placed a sign on the A390 to the west of Truro. The sign proudly announces the imminent arrival of a ‘major urban extension’, although building on open countryside well outside the … Continue reading
Replacing the unaffordability strategy
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 10, 2014 We have to move from a strategy of Unaffordability, meeting external demands, to one of Affordability, meeting local needs. The final section of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall contains a few … Continue reading
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Is developer-led planning affordable?
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 9, 2014 In Section 6 of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall I ask whether the associated costs are making developer-led growth any longer affordable. “More housing is justified ostensibly to meet the needs … Continue reading
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The ideological prison
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 8, 2014 Section 5 of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall suggests that the planners’ inability to empathise with the meaning of Cornish landscapes helps to create a dismissive attitude to Cornish landscape and … Continue reading
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Growth: the new heroin
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 7, 2014 In Section 4 of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall we see how the ‘growth fetish’ gives more green lights to the developers. Here’s the beginning … “Economic growth is the heroin … Continue reading
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A self-fulfilling prophecy
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 6, 2014 In Section 3 of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall we find that inflated projections of population growth become self-fulfilling prophecies because of aggressive marketing of Cornish property upcountry. I conclude that … Continue reading
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Robust evidence or rigged data?
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 5, 2014 Section 2 (pages 14-25) of Going west: housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall discovers that official statistics have been grossly exaggerating population and household growth in Cornwall. Here’s an extract … “As we … Continue reading
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Doubling the urban area in a lifetime
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 4, 2014 Section 1 of Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in Cornwall puts Cornwall’s housing and population growth in context. Despite the surprising difficulty in discovering precisely how many houses have been built, we can … Continue reading
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From technical mystification to ideology and politics
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUG 1, 2014 Half a century of high population and housing growth in Cornwall has signally failed to bring the benefits its proponents loudly claim. Yet this is still the only future they offer us. This is not … Continue reading
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Spinning the vicious circles: more jobs and more migrants need more houses
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JUL 30, 2014 In relation to our population, in Cornwall we have the highest rate of housebuilding in the UK. Yet the problem of affordability has reached new heights. In Going West: Housing, migration and population growth in … Continue reading
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Cornwall - a developers' paradise? 