Green Spaces and Land Use
A Personal View By Michael Burgess. Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School based here in Truro have carried out...
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The ‘Developing’ Situation
‘The Battle for the land’ The current situation is complex. Following the loss of the Tolgarrick fight we are now seeing applications coming in for more houses at Threemilestone, at Willow Green and Higher...
City of Lights
A town full of buildings and streets needs to be filled – on some days small gaggles of businessmen obstruct shoppers in a hurry, taxis slide through well-worn routes, buses thunder across cobbles, some wait,...
Trurra – scat to larrups!
Last Wednesday Wales & West promised that it would be last day of the pneumatic drill. Shop workers took a moment between moments waiting for customers to offer up a prayer, and then stopped,...
Lower Standards up Highertown!
What’s in a name – Taylor Wimpey dunnaw! Do they care? Outrage is smouldering at the sudden appearance of hoardings in Highertown proclaiming the arrival of ‘Woodleigh Grange’ – Taylor Wimpey’s ‘brand’ name for...
Troubled Times
Truro City Council lost its Judicial Review against Cornwall Council. It was a comprehensive decision. The Judge found against TCC on all six points. The way is now clear for the project to begin....
Coosebean Cycle Path Opens
Truro is famous and greatly valued for its inter-relationship with the natural world and its rural setting. Nowhere in the town is this more obvious than in the centuries old love affair between Truronians...
Spring has sprung some pleasant surprises
All over Truro plants and trees are springing into life after this hard winter. And it’s happening in new places too, thanks to the hard work of many individuals who want to make Truro...
Conservation Matters
MEETING OF THE TRURO CONSERVATION AREA ADVISORY COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL 2013 at 10.00 am PRESENT: Hugh Lander (Chairman) James Bright (Vice-Chairman) Councillor Mrs Carlyon APOLOGIES: Apologies were received on behalf of Councillor...
Prospects for the Property Market
A recent Report by Vickery Holman takes an overview of the prospects for the property market. Whilst an element of this stuff is puffery, the data is usually good and the description of trade perceptions...
History of the Civic Society (part 1)
‘There is no surer way of determining that a town will survive unspoiled than the corporate determination of its citizens that it shall’ – Sir Alec Clifton Taylor In 1962 Truro awoke to find...
Chairman’s Report – November 2012
Last week I received a letter from Scot Gilchrist who is visiting relatives in New Zealand. When the Duke of Cornwall visited Wellington on his current tour, during his Jubilee ‘walkabout’ (not an Aboriginal...
Truro Viewpoints
Recently the Princes Foundation urged the groups working on the draft Neighbourhood Plan to identify views which say ‘this is Truro’. There is one I will rediscover again and again, from 1816. It appears...
“To kill two birds with one stone”
(Many thanks to Mike Burgess for submitting this thought provoking article) A few thoughts on a strategic plan to deal with possible threats to Truro Since the global financial crisis it looks...
Our objections to Tolgarrick Farm
Chief Planning Officer Cornwall Council Fordh Treyew Truro TR1 3AY Kernow 7th October 2012 Tolgarrick Farm, Truro – PA12/07283 Dear Sir, I am writing on behalf of Truro Civic Society to...
Carry on ticketing
From the West Briton A CAMPAIGN for non-travellers to be allowed back on to Truro Station’s platforms has reached new heights. City resident Daphne Worraker heard people were buying return tickets to Perranwell Station...
John Crowther Remembered
‘I thought I was the finest architect since Corbusier’ In the 1930s John Henry Crowther was an architect working for Yorkshire County Council. He lived in a Council House at Dewsbury with his wife...
Number One Priority is Sewerage
Chairman’s Report – September 2012 The new application for Tolgarrick Farm – upon which the Society needs to make a submission – includes correspondence between South West Water and the applicant. This follows from...
The Core Strategy
I abhor the unremitting increase of concrete over the Cornish countryside, but an irrational and emotional response to the planned housing provision in the Core Strategy will fail to influence our policy makers and...
What has gone wrong with the planning system in Cornwall?
It was not until l948 that the Government introduced the Planning Act to regulate what and where land was developed. Since that time the Government have set the parameters and the County Councils and...