Public Meeting in Wadebridge (again)
Last night Cornwall Council’s Strategic Planning Committee held a public meeting in Wadebridge Town Hall to hear the views of local people with regard to the planning applications submitted by three...
View ArticleWadebridge supermarket decisions will not be webcast
Following the well-attended public meeting in Wadebridge Town Hall last week I asked the Communications staff at Cornwall Council to consider webcasting Thursday’s Strategic Planning Committee meeting...
View ArticleWadebridge Supermarket decisions deferred
The three supermarket applications due for consideration by Cornwall Council’s Strategic Planning Committee have been deferred while a further report on their likely impact on the local economy is...
View ArticleDoes ‘Localism’ have a future in Cornwall?
At the September meeting of Cornwall Council I asked a question of Lance Kennedy, the Conservative Cornwall Council Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities. I wanted to know why the only mention of...
View ArticleCornwall’s Library Service
The BBC’s Graham Smith reports on his blog about the leaked Cornwall Council budget proposals which are due to be discussed by the Council’s Cabinet on 27th October (a meeting which will hopefully be...
View ArticleCornwall Council – Cabinet Budget Meeting Webcast
Tomorrow (Wednesday 27th October) Cornwall Council’s Cabinet will be discussing the ‘emergency budget’ proposals. Technical issues permitting, this should be the first Cabinet meeting to be webcast. If...
View ArticleA day of scrutiny
Cornwall Council’s ‘Scrutiny’ committees have been meeting this week to examine the Tory-led administration’s emergency budget proposals. Today was the turn of the committee I sit on, the Communities...
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Lost: Localism at Cornwall Council
Confusion reigned at today’s Communities Committee when the topic of Localism was raised. Previously this area of the Council’s work had been scrutinised by this committee but questions were raised...
View ArticleCornwall Council’s Emergency Budget Meeting
Cornwall Council meets tomorrow to discuss and decide on the Tory-led administration’s ‘Emergency’ Budget proposals. Given the climate of cuts coming from the Coalition government some changes to the...
View ArticleThe Emergency Budget
Yesterday, rescheduled at short notice, Cornwall Council held a long meeting to discuss the Conservative-led administration’s “emergency” budget. (I posted our group’s four amendments here a few days...
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