Persimmon “can’t afford it”.
On the ferris wheel of campaigning issues come around – so here’s a question! Persimmon Homes is one of the biggest and most prosperous...
July 19, 2024
Compton Castle
The Compton Castle on the River Dart In the 1980s, when there was a cavalier energy abroad in Truro, John Cockle, City Councillor, broadcaster,...
January 25, 2024
Sympathetic Development?
The Daniell Arms (now known as The Thomas Daniell) is a listed building. It was originally two mirror-image houses, and the two arched front...
December 18, 2023
MR H KICKS OPEN A DOOR; A THOUGHT MARCHES IN!
Looking after our farms so our farmers can look after us. A reflection on the emerging Green Infrastructure Strategy and Vision. In 2009 a...
May 30, 2022
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...
February 21, 2022
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...
June 16, 2021
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
