I have had an extremely busy month since I last posted on this website. I have been elected to the Chair of St Cleer Parish Council. I have taken part in a very intensive two day Select Committee hearing into the Cornwall Council budget process with its attendant pre-meetings. The...

I realise that I havent been to this site for a month. I have been posting on facebook but not keeping this site up to date. I have tried to step back fromTruro to allow time for casework and the all important work on the Neighbourhood Development Plans in the...

In theory August is holiday time because the schools are on holiday and therefore the Council closes down. In fact with the number of things that have been bubbling along there has been quite a bit to do. I hope those of you with an interest in the Neighbourhood Development...

The public meeting was great. A really big thank you to all those ladies and gentlmen who brought cakes to share with all. There was such variety that there were plenty for all. Also thank you to the developers and their agents who came to show what they planned. Copied...

Some of the outside body appointments have been made and I am pleased to say that I have been reappointed to both the Board of Cornwall Housing Ltd and the shadow Council of Governors for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. Having also decided that the Neighbourhood Development Plan is something that...

Just to let you all know that the Community Chest grants are now available for seed funding or small projects. The form is a bit different and the rules have been tightened a little, but please contact tperry@cornwall.gov.uk if you need an application form. There are as always no guarantees...

Copied below  are the comments which people wrote on post-it notes and stuck on the flipchart.     In reply to one question the maximum height of a fence or wall between properties is 2 metres and if a boundary adjoins the highway it is 1 metre Comments collected on Post-its at...

Today I took the planning application for 30 houses on the site at St Cleer to the Planning Committee. The speech I made to put the community point of view is copied below. The decision was tied at 7-7 and then the Chairman (Andrew Long from Callington) gave his casting...

Vital for the future of the Parish – Neighbourhood Plans are the one chance for the community as a whole to decide what their area should be like in the coming 20 years. We suddenly have a large number of houses coming through the planning pipeline, it could mean as...

The dust is beginning to settle and the Leader and cabinet have been elected. I decided to stay with a scrutiny role on the Scrutiny Management Committee. From there I am the scrutiny representative to Homes and Communities Portfolio Advisory Committee. Hopefully the new governance arrangements will bring greater democratic...