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...
October 26, 2020
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...
July 20, 2020
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...
October 26, 2017
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...
August 4, 2017
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...
April 30, 2017
Current Issues in Truro
Chairman’s Report The winter has brought a difficult set of issues forward to preoccupy us as homeless people, many with mental health problems, addictions...
February 2, 2017
Cornish Buildings Group debate
The Cornish Buildings Group are pleased to announce further details of our 2017 conference based around the theme of architectural design for Cornwall. The...
November 4, 2016
The Changing Face of Retailing in Truro
My first real experience in the retail trade was as a ‘Saturday boy’ in Debenhams of Northampton in 1977. I worked on the menswear...
July 11, 2016
Carrick- the Essential Debate
Across town the stasis which has embalmed the Carrick site persists. It is a large area and one which, in my view, should stimulate...
February 18, 2016
Truro & Global Warming – a solution?
THE MISSING ELEPHANT A personal view by Michael Burgess On Wednesday 7 January 2015 Roger Gazzard, Clerk to Truro City Council gave a...
January 24, 2015
Proposed new developments
Truro Football Club Mrs Carlyon and I visited the exhibition of the proposals which will form a planning application for a retail development. It...
October 4, 2014
Spring Report
We come to the end of yet another turbulent, discomforting year when loss and disappointment overwhelm and eclipse small local positives. Our town is...
June 1, 2014
Truro Parking and Traffic
There is a growing conflict emerging between commuters and residents over parking, which is giving rise to a growing number of enquiries for Residents Parking...
April 13, 2014
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...
December 6, 2013
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....
September 5, 2013
Chairman’s Report July 2013
TCS in a dividing society The economy appears to be picking up – or at least, property prices seem to be rising. The plight...
July 23, 2013
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...
April 24, 2013
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...
April 22, 2013
A Good Debate
The debate between Mike Burgess and Luci Isaacson about how to prepare Truro for the future impacts of climate change was lively and well...
January 22, 2013
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...
November 26, 2012
