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Category Archives: population growth
Down from London: dreaming and dreading
The poem below was sent to me by one of my readers. Camberley Darling! We MUST move to the south Cornish coast! My smart phone’s just pinged up one cool must-do post To say people like us are all moving … Continue reading
Posted in housing, population growth, second homes
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Don’t blame us; councillors nothing to do with hyper-growth crisis
What a coincidence! On Tuesday local action groups and individuals concerned about Cornwall Council’s mass housebuilding and high population growth strategy mounted a protest to demand a change in direction. But it seems that the Council is now re-inventing itself … Continue reading
Basic innumeracy? Or deliberate mendacity? Why Cornwall Council’s planners cannot be trusted.
In the early days of the making of Cornwall Council’s Local Plan, its planners were keen to emphasise that population growth was a result not just of net in-migration, but also natural change (the excess of births over deaths). The … Continue reading
Living in the end times? The Cornish crisis ramps up.
Are we living through the end times in Cornwall, doomed to survive into what Neil Kennedy has called Kernowland? This is a post-Cornish Cornwall, stripped of its indigenous, native cultures, even as token signage in re-written medieval Cornish proliferates and … Continue reading
Are we building for local need? The data updated.
The ONS recently produced some new household projections. What are the implications for the number of houses we ‘need’ to build in Cornwall? Across England and Wales, the revised projections reduce estimates of future growth by up to 25%. In … Continue reading
In-migration running at record level
Don’t be surprised if you’ve heard the sound of popping champagne bottles from the Cornwall Council leadership bunker in recent weeks. For it seems that at least one of their policies is working. At the end of June the Office … Continue reading
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Cornwall Council’s housing target and ‘local demand’
This blog uses the latest data to show how claims that Cornwall’s high housing target (equal to more than five Truros in just 20 years) is merely to meet ‘local demand’ are false instead the majority of the additional housing … Continue reading
More on those surveys that never were. Cornwall Council still insists world is flat
You have to give Cornwall Council’s planners full credit for being as slippery as a set of eels. First, they concede that they have no actual contemporary survey data to back up their regular claims that 80%+ of new housing … Continue reading
A walk down memory lane. Although there’ll soon be 2,700 houses (at least) there.
Here’s a blog below that I posted back in December 2014, three months before what was possibly the most shambolic planning meeting in the history of Cornwall Council. It brings shivers down the spine to recall it, but that was … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall Council;, Local Plan, population growth
Tagged Inox, LXB, Marsh & Baxter, Truro, Walker Devpts
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The problems with Cornwall Council’s growth obsession
We’ve seen how Cornwall Council is obsessed by its drive for ‘growth’, which, despite all the flannel surrounding it, turns out to contain at its core the same old-fashioned housing and population growth. There are four fundamental problems with its … Continue reading
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Cornwall - a developers' paradise? 