Well, if you're going to talk the talk, you should walk the walk ! I rang Carrick District Planning Department this morning and spoke to a Planning Officer. The law is this, if you fly the St. Piran's flag from any form of flag pole at home it is classed as an advertisement (I'm not selling anything - before anyone asks !) You need to apply for an advertisement licence at a cost of £75 for this and there is a pack of forms available from any Planning Department for this. You do not need an advertisement licence for the Union Flag, any other specified national flag (George, David, Andrew, Patrick) or the flag of any other Country, the EU or UN.
I have passed in my name and address and I was told that I was likely to get a visit by a Planning Officerion. I shall remain polite and calm and invite court action accordingly. I trust enough publicity will result to make my stand worthwhile !
Just to let you know, Pirate FM called for an interview and I gave it willingly. Listen out for it, my name's Mike Chappell. I again told them that I would invite prosecution so strongly do I feel over this matter.
Thanks for any support. I actually found Carrick District Council very pleasant about the whole thing and I shall be the same back. They are not to blame as I see it.
I am an exile in Wales but I fly my St. Pirans flag and no one has ever complained.
My only two neighbours are Forestry Commission who don't bother us, and a farmer who is of Cornish descent, even though his first language is Welsh.
The area where my house is was once a lead and copper mining area so odd as it may seem there were Cornish working the mines.
Bit of a "Little Kernow" in North Wales !!!!!!!!
BTW referring back to my earlier posting, the officials on these councils not only have their wages paid by us but have a real talent for wasting our money being petty like this.
P.S. If you get taken to court Freekernow and they fine you, I will gladly send you £20 to help with the cost of the fine. Best I can do to support you I am afraid.
I am very grateful for that. I'll drag out any fines process believe you me. I have the means to pay as well so what I would really appreciate would be the publicity and physical support at Court. Also any letters sent to M.P.'s and Yvette Cooper M.P. the Planning Minister at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA email coopery@parliament.co.uk would really be appreciated. Thanks again.
We had a St Pirans flag outide our tent in Wales earlier this year - purely so the kids could differentiate our tent from the others. We had so much abuse it became funny in the end.
If you mean abuse from the Welsh then I think it is because they did not know what the flag represents. I live in Wales and have made every effort to fit in, not like the majority of the English. My kids learnt Welsh at school, in fact my daughter got a top grade A level in Welsh even though she only started learning at 12.
In fact several of her Welsh teachers were hardcore Welsh, one was the daughter of a police chief who spent many nights in her dads cells for defacing English signs !!!
As part of her media course she got a chance to visit S4C (Welsh language TV station) and even the most radical Welsh there were impressed by her Cornish heritage and her love of Welshness. I do have to say though, her maternal grandmother was Welsh so my kids have very little English in them, if any.
I always explain my heritage to my Welsh friends and neighbours, and I have had no abuse at all, completely the opposite.
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there were Cornish working the mines. 