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
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...
November 25, 2013
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...
October 23, 2013
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...
October 13, 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
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...
June 22, 2013
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
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
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