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...
April 28, 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
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’ –...
March 27, 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
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...
November 8, 2012
“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...
November 3, 2012
Chairman’s Report – October 2012
Autumn has inserted itself between the showers! The magpies in the tree behind my house rattle like a pair of over-excited snipers, whilst the battle...
October 22, 2012
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, ...
October 8, 2012
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...
September 25, 2012
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...
September 17, 2012
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...
September 5, 2012
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...
August 28, 2012
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...
August 15, 2012
Rob Nolan on the Truro & Kenwyn Neighbourhood Plan
People say to me, why are we continuing with the Neighbourhood Plan, when Cornwall Council have already made all the big decisions. And it’s...
August 9, 2012
A Sustainable Energy Future for Truro
The economy is depressed, public services are under pressure, employment is difficult to find, and we have waste problems, pressure on farmland for development,...
August 7, 2012
How do the leats work?
The leat system in Truro starts at Waterfall Gardens just off St George’s Road, and is extracted from the river Kenwyn, but until the...
June 12, 2012
Chairman’s Report – May 2012.
Firstly, I hope that everybody who came found the talk given by Professor Mike Jenks about ‘future thinking’ of interest and value. Some people found...
May 23, 2012
Run Kernow! Run! Now!
[AFG_gallery] Run Kernow! Run! Now! Phoenicians, Arimethea Joe, Herodotus, Polydore Virgil – Past Gibraltar against the wind, Gale-filled sail – North, Boys. North! Up...
May 20, 2012