Boscawen Street-neither busy nor beautiful now
The time has come – if it has not long passed – when someone must clearly say ‘Enough is enough!’ It is time to remove all this paraphernalia from Boscawen Street, and to remove...
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Architect Philip Sambell
When Sue Coney tells you where she was born she uses the native pronunciation – ‘Eadless’. Most of her entirely Cornish family are from the Truro area. She was educated at St Mary’s School,...
Video Presentation – before Truro
People of the river crossing Fiona is a landscape archaeologist. She is talking about what we now know about Truro’s origins and evolution. In the past thirty years or so the town has seen...
Video Presentation – Saga of the High Cross
For its November ZoomTalk, Truro Civic Society has invited Cornwall’s leading expert on Cornish Crosses to speak about his experience of repairing Truro’s High Cross after it was the victim of a bizarre road...
Safeguarding the future of Truro City Centre
Mike and Trish Hawes, principals of Mei Loci, an experienced team of landscape architects based in Truro with an international practice will be giving the monthly Truro Civic Society ‘ZoomTalk’ on Wednesday 20th October...
St Mary’s Churchyard is full of bones of contention – it is part of our parish; we should look after it.
A good number of years ago a Mayor of Truro, Mrs Valerie Bennett, developed an acute civic anxiety about the condition of the St Mary’s Church Yard wall which runs adjacent to Kenwyn Hill....
Time for businesses to get a grip. This will not do.
A snapshot of Old Bridge Street rubbish – this car park brings poeople into the town centre – its on sat navs, is flat and convei9ent and pay-on-exit. Across St Mary’s Bridge is the...
All Power to Landscape
Why is the Mayor standing in a field screaming ‘TOLGARRICK! HINTERLAND!’? With all this walking around, and with a summer remarkably free of pollutants – no vapour trails across the dawn sky; no rumbling...
Time to Clock On Again
To the Freehold owner of The Clock House, Lemon Quay, Truro Dear Landlord, It was a moment of relieved happiness when it was decided by the Planning Authority to accept plans for the former...
Planning Issues Oct 2019
Higher Newham Farm No doubt what the two key issues are this month! Higher Newham Farm has returned to the agenda. The applicant persists in the folly of seeking consent to create an access...
Stranger Things
Recently, strange objects reminiscent of mystical obelisks from 2001 Space Odyssey have appeared in various places around the Truro town centre. Sadly, these are not a legacy from Arthur C Clarke to the town...
A visit to Carne’s Ope
With the agreement of the ‘site manager’, and with the assistance of the ever-helpful staff of Uneeka, I visited Carne’s Ope. With me was Martin Woodley and Nick Cahill, a planning officer and conservation...
THINKING TRURRA
An ‘Ideas Exchange’ of short talks exploring the present and future for Truro presented by Truro Civic Society, in partnership with Truro City Council, TruroBID and Cornwall Council. Two 20min talks with 20min Q&A...
The Truro List – please comment
Following the successful introduction of the Truro & Kenwyn Neighbourhood Plan, and the previously successful process to develop a Truro Conservation Area Management Plan, there is now the opportunity for Truro to compile...
Truro is dead at night ‘because no one actually lives in the city centre anymore’
Bert Biscoe opens the debate about the opportunities available to us at the old Carrick site. Read more Here
Report September 2017
15/16 St Clement Street I hesitate to say anything but there’s a mini-digger, a pile of aggregate and a man with a theodolite on the 15/16 site. After all this time we may be...
Boscawen Street Still Thriving
I was once asked to visit a widow who was anxious about a letter from the Dept. of Revs & Bens (DRAB!) about her Council Tax. She was determined to take possession of her...
What’s happening in Truro?
April 2017 Pydar Street News is that the deal to secure the whole of the site occupied by Carrick DC is nearing completion. This should then trigger the debate about what’s to be done....
A Message from the Neighbourhood Plan team
For five long years Truro City Council and Kenwyn Parish councillors have worked hard to provide this Neighbourhood Plan for Truro and Kenwyn. It went through a Referendum in which 3,500 people voted and...