Truro Civic Society Awards
On Friday 21st March in the Methodist Church The following people received Civic Awards For their their dedication and service to the City of Truro ADULT SECTION Barry CooperMr. Barry John Cooper has been...
Category: News
Housing Bombshell
At the start of the year Cornwall Council had a Local Plan and a Five Year Land Supply. These are important documents which set out how many houses we’re going to build up to...
The Bins Revisited
Just who is responsible for the commercial waste bins which you will see all over Truro. Is it the Council? Or is it Biffa? Or is it the shops who are taking advantage of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What’s up – Christmas 2015
It would appear that the Railway Station forecourt project is ‘on hold’ – not sure of the reason, but I have spoken to Emma Brown, the new Cornwall Manager of Network Rail, about a...
Current Planning Issues
I am glad to report that some improvements have been made to 117 Kenwyn Street. The site has been leased to the Hub Box, which occupies the old chapel next door, and a new...
Blunt not the heart, enrage it! *
A new government and new relaxations – no planning consent required for brownfield sites! I have circulated to all members copies of the Conservation Area Appraisal. It shows that the town has been looked...
Of Stadiums, Supermarkets and Sewage
The big news this month is the latest round in the battle to build at Threemilestone. Thursday 12th March saw four major applications and Truro City Football Club put before a marathon Strategic Planning...
Another hillside under threat
Just to add to the forthcoming developments at Union Corner, Tolgullow, Langarth, Willow Green, Maiden Green, Richard Lander together with Inox’s latest wheeze plus applications for 6 supermarkets, we now have Higher Newham Farm which...
Three steps forward, three steps back
Coyte Farm The big drama of recent weeks has been the refusal by the Strategic Planning Committee of Coyte Farm. This major retail development outside St Austell would have drawn significant trade from a...
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,...
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...
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...
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...