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Newquay Airport Forum members told not to share information

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Newquay Airport wants £11.5 million from the taxpayer by 2025 but refuses to say why or how it plans to spend the money

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EXCLUSIVE: without involving a single elected councillor, County Hall calls in estate agents to consider the future of Newquay Airport

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Bee rustlers steal five hives at St Newlyn East

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Council leader’s tour of Cornwall is “good value for money”

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EXCLUSIVE: Saints Trail inquiry “will not attribute blame” as councillors face long wait for answers

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Under the radar, County Hall is thinking of its next big idea: the incredible shrinking airport

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Another delay: Cornwall’s satellite will not be launched this year

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Steve Double is the first of Cornwall’s MPs to welcome a windfall tax on energy companies – eight days after voting against the idea

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Four day centres for adults with learning disabilities set to close

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A new look for the Newquay skyline? Manchester property developer plans 13-storey complex

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New secondary school for 1,350 students to open at Perranporth – in September 2025

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No rocket launch from Cornwall to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee

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EXCLUSIVE: the latest wheeze to make money at Newquay Airport involves simulated zero-gravity rides in “the Fun Zone”

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County Hall U-Turn as Cornwall Council decides it does want some Levelling Up cash after all – but how much thought has gone into the shopping list of ideas?

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Planners recommend refusal of permission for Perranporth skatepark

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St Austell & Newquay Tories will again back Steve Double at next general election

By Julia Penhaligon Conservatives in St Austell and Newquay have re-adopted Steve Double MP to be their Parliamentary candidate at the next general election. While the move is not...

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Developers again have Penhale Army Camp in their sights, planning to build a holiday park

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New-look Newquay Airport forum “should meet in public” says government

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Flying blind: Newquay Airport left to operate on auto-pilot, as councillors told they no longer have a role

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A familiar name takes to the skies again – but won’t be seen over Newquay any time soon

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Downing Street Party-gate: I’m backing Boris, says St Austell & Newquay MP Steve Double

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County Hall takes over Newquay surf lodge to provide shelter for rough sleepers

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Homeless people in the Newquay area are to be offered shelter at one of the town’s surf lodges, following a Cornwall Council decision to rent the...

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Newquay Airport: even Cornwall Council, which owns it, does not know who is in charge

By Peter Tremayne Cornwall Council’s grip on events at Newquay Airport came under the microscope yesterday (Tuesday) as cabinet members were quizzed about who is in charge. Councillor Paul...

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A third satellite hitches a ride on Branson’s rocket, boosting the business case for a Cornish spaceshot

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Another construction firm in administration, posing questions over unfinished buildings in Cornwall

By Peter Tremayne Another large construction company has gone into administration, leaving question marks over a number of public sector projects in Cornwall. Caledonian Modular had been working on...

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EXCLUSIVE: Still plenty of empty seats on taxpayer-funded flights between Newquay and London

By Peter Tremayne The taxpayer-subsidised cheap flights between Newquay and London are still resulting in aircraft which are barely half-full, according to an official report. The period December-February resulted,...

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Newquay Airport Forum meeting cancelled again – due a licence-threatening outbreak of Covid, or is it just a dead parrot?

By Peter Tremayne The Newquay Airport Consultative Forum meeting promised for this week has been cancelled.  The forum, which Cornwall Council’s website says was “discontinued” in January, now seems...

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Newquay Airport forum disappears off the radar, again

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Covid-19: Newquay Tretherras school begs parents to keep children at home if they have symptoms

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The government’s abandonment of a Covid public health policy is causing severe problems at Newquay Tretherras school, which has more than 1,600 pupils aged 11-18. With...

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Cornwall’s spaceport now has another customer, as Cardiff satellite company signs deal with Branson

By Peter Tremayne A Cardiff-based satellite company is hoping to be one of the first to launch into space from Cornwall later this year. Space Forge started in a...

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Newquay Airport facing tough questions about its future, as County Hall reveals it is likely to lose £11.5 million over the next four years

By Peter Tremayne The future of Newquay airport is to be subjected to a fundamental “strategic review” after its owner, Cornwall Council, discovered it is on course to cost...

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Saints Trail cycle path fiasco: Cornwall Council officers charged 11,000 hours of their time to government-funded project before Whitehall asked for its money back

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council officials charged for 11,000 hours of their time to the £19 million Saints Trail cycle scheme, before County Hall’s lawyers warned that the costs...

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Cornwall Council leader challenged to declare that she has confidence in County Hall officials who wasted millions on failed Saints Trail cycle path

By Julia Penhaligon Cornwall Council’s political leadership will be challenged today (Tuesday) to declare that it has confidence in the senior County Hall officers who masterminded the disastrous Saints...

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Flights resume at Newquay but Met Office warns of more strong winds

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Flights to and from Newquay airport have resumed after Friday’s Storm Eunice.  However, the Met Office has today (Sunday) warned of another storm - named Franklin...

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Storm Eunice is expected to bring a tidal surge, and flooding, to North Cornwall coast on Friday

By Rashleigh MacFarlane The Environment Agency is urging people living in flood risk communities along Cornwall’s north coast to prepare for flooding from a forecast tidal surge caused by...

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Civil Aviation Authority refuses to guarantee that Cornwall’s spaceport will have its licence by June

Peter Tremayne Cornwall’s spaceport is in a race against time to get its paperwork in order if Richard Branson is to launch a rocket from Newquay in time for...

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Newquay cyclists can pedal off-road, as planners approve controversial route through residential area

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall's planners have voted 8-2 to approve a controversial off-road cycle path through Newquay, despite objections from police and local residents. The proposal to support the...

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Planners to consider if Newquay cycle path will encourage crime

By Peter Tremayne Some of the difficulties associated with providing urban cycle paths will come under the microscope tomorrow (Monday) when Cornwall’s planners consider an application which police fear...

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How we screwed up the Saints Trail cycle path, by Cornwall Council

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Saints Trail – it wasn’t the first two-wheeled “omnishambles” and it won’t be the last: Any inquiry needs to ask the right questions if the same mistakes are not to be repeated

By Graham Smith Any inquiry into the multi-million pound Saints Trail fiasco, which on Friday saw the scrapping of a key part of a 19 mile off-road cycle path,...

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Saints Trail: Cornwall’s multi-million pound “flagship” off-road cycle path to nowhere

By Rashleigh MacFarlane Cornwall Council has been forced to abandon a key part of its flagship “Saints Trail” cycle path, after wasting millions of pounds. The trail was supposed...

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Newquay Airport forum still lives and will meet next month, despite being “decommissioned”

By Graham Smith The tussle between elected Cornwall councillors and their officials over what should become of the Newquay Airport Consultative Forum seems to be heading for extra-time, after...

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EXCLUSIVE: Eastern Airways shelves promise to fly twice a day to London, as aircraft remain mostly empty on the subsidised route

By Peter Tremayne Eastern Airways appears to have dropped – or at least postponed - its ambition to operate two flights a day from Newquay to London, after disappointing...

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Flying solo: Newquay Airport Consultative Forum is decommissioned

By Peter Tremayne The Newquay Airport Consultative Forum has been “decommissioned.”  A formal notice has now been posted on the Cornwall Council website, but offers no explanation. The forum...

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LoganAir now flys Newquay-Manchester

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Newquay Airport and Enterprise Zone provide fewer jobs now than they did 12 years ago

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Proof of life: the Newquay Airport Consultative Forum has an agenda, therefore it exists

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EXCLUSIVE: Who runs Newquay Airport? It’s not you, new managing director tells councillors

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“Nightmare” Saints Trail cycle path set to face further scrutiny

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Branson says his rocket is “Go For Launch” tonight

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20th February 2017

 

Cornwall Reports is currently examining the Cornwall Council Site Allocations Document, to be considered by the Planning Policy Advisory Committee today (Monday.)

The document identifies the following towns/areas as strategically important for growth: Penzance & Newlyn,  Hayle,  Camborne-Pool-Illogan-Redruth,  Helston, Falmouth and Penryn, Newquay, St Austell, Eco-communities (china clay areas)  Bodmin, Launceston and Saltash.

Here is a map, and the planning officer’s executive summary:

A Cornwall Site Allocations Document is being prepared that sets out strategic sites to deliver Cornwall’s economic and housing growth within some of Cornwall’s largest settlements. The Cornwall Site Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD), forms part of a suite of documents that sit under the banner of the Cornwall Local Plan; demonstrating how the growth targets within the Cornwall Local Plan: Strategic Policies document will be delivered within these settlements.

The development of the area based sections of the Allocations DPD has been progressed in close consultation with the relevant local Cornwall Council members and the Town and Parish Councils.

The document recently went through a period of public consultation, ending on the 16 November 2016.

Approximately 1300 representations were received and the main issues that were raised, together with officer responses, are set out in Appendix 2 (see ‘Supporting Information’ at the end of this report for the link to the document).

 

 

As a result of this consultation, together with the continued engagement with other bodies, various changes to the area based sections were made. Appendix 1 sets out the proposed publication version of the Cornwall Site Allocations DPD, with changes to the area based section highlighted using track changes.

This report is seeking endorsement of this publication version of the Cornwall Site Allocations DPD; which would result in undertaking a further period of public consultation. Subject to no significant changes being required as a result of this consultation, the Service Director of Planning & Sustainable Development, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Planning, would then submit the Cornwall Site Allocations DPD to the Secretary for State, which would then lead to an Examination in Public.