Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
footy has alwys been big in Cornwall Chris and still is, plenty of Cornish support at Argyle. My dad was a bleedy good player played for Cornwall School boys and for the Duke of Cornwalls Light infantry and had the chance of pro trials. My grandad went to school with Raymond Bowden in Looe who played for Argyle, Arsenal, Newcastle and England http://www.khscott.org.uk/nufc/template_player.php?thisPage=1&totalRows=55&pid=84 my Grandad died 4 years ago aged 95 and told me plenty of tales about knocking a ball around with Raymond in West Looe square. I used to get all my sports stuff from his shop in Plymouth if you said you were from Looe you used to get a discount!
Tricky one involving balances between good and evil. In truth, I dont know enough about the developer or living in Truro to make any real personal decision or analysis. I just have a very deep belief that the people that should benefit the most from major developments should be regular people, not elites. Up to you to decide Porthia where these stand!
A grossly pitch overprovisioned stadium concept + carparking and associated access infrastructure coupled with green field development within the existing city built curtelage would inevitably increase surface water runoff flood dangers.Add in the likely subsequent 'green field' development of the then redundant other pitches within the city and you create very real and unnecessarily exacerbated flood risk.(There are more than enough illustrations of what happens next floating about.)
A more realistic,compact, modest,down to earth,practical,environmentally aware and less monopolistic grandiose proposal proportionate to its context needs to be brought forward by Mr Heaney.
Realism is NOT anti-sport,anti-football NOR anti-youthful aspiration(a handy but blatant salespitch coathook).
Hmm, trouble is just saying 'oh people like sport' should not blind anyone to the fact that having large stadiums with additioanl car parks etc does affect the local area and impact upon the environment. And yes, bit like redruth - a free rugby ground ( paid for by unaffordable housing on the old site! - some people need to get real about how the property market works! And whats this about sport is good for people - fine lots of people like it but lots dont and so far all the attention on sport doesnt seem to have made the population any healthier! i hardly think attending a match will halt the increasing trend towards obesity!!
Subject: Officers' Refusal Recommendation of Proposed Relocation of Truro Football Club...
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:39:22 +0000
To: All Members of Carrick District Council Planning Referrals Committee.
Dear Councillors
You are deliberating this item this evening:
07.00pm 13th September2007
CARRICK DISTRICT COUNCIL Planning (Referrals) Committee
Relocation of Truro City Football Club to Pencoose Farm, Kenwyn, Truro
Members of Carrick Planning (Development Control ) Committee went against the officers' recommendation
Carrick DC PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT CONTROL) COMMITTEE 27 JUNE 2007 - 'RESOLVED that Application No EA03/0173/07/M be deferred and referred to the Planning Referrals Committee for determination with a recommendation that the application be approved, subject to appropriate conditions.' :
The wisest decision Carrick District Council Planning Referrals Committee can take in the best interests of Truro and Cornwall is to endorse,support,reinforce and confirm the recommendation of refusal made by Carrick Planning Officers.
To truthful unspun futures.
Onen Hag Oll
Team Kernow
CC
Hazel Blears,Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Yvette Cooper MP, Minister for Housing, attending Cabinet
The Planning Inspectorate
The Fortune Hunters:
'7 Kevin Heaney/Property.
A London property developer, he moved to Cornwall in 2001.
His Cornish property and European assets are valued at £24m.
He commutes to Monaco.'
Monaco's Rich List 2007:
'25. Kevin Heaney - £140 million.
Owner of "www.cornishomes.co.uk",
One of the largest property developers in Cornwall.
Heaney, 44, is now worth over £140 million.'
Never one to give up (uh oh.), Truro City boss Kevin Heaney is now pressing ahead with plans for a £30 million soccer stadium.A state-of-the-art "One and All Stadium" which could cater for rugby as well as football is planned for a 50-acre site at Threemilestone.
But first Mr Heaney, the millionaire club chairman, admits he has to persuade no fewer than six landowners to sell him the land.
The news follows last week's major set back for the club when Carrick councillors refused planning permission for an academy training ground proposed for Pencoose, Kenwyn.
Mr Heaney will not yet be drawn on whether he'll appeal against that decision. "It's with our lawyers and I'm awaiting a legal opinion," he said.
He also said the academy could be incorporated on the Threemilestone site if it comes to fruition but stressed it would be at least five years before it could be built, whereas development of the Kenwyn site could have started straight away.(pile on the psychological pressure KH...)
He also questions the logic of having both soccer facilities on the same site.(two now is it?)
"The reason we should have two sites is so that people could use the one closest to them.(well there's a logic shift!) "Bearing in mind the amount of houses due to be built in Truro(By KH?), how are youngsters (oh yes...bring the kids into it!) going to get along to Threemilestone from the other side of Truro at 5.30pm in rush hour traffic?"
The stadium is earmarked for land at Langarth Farm, next to the forthcoming park and ride car park.
Money for the £30 million stadium, and up to £8 million for a training facility, would come from various sources including the club itself. Its current club site at Treyew Road has planning permission for an office complex and is worth £6 million.(to KH.)
Mr Heaney would apply for European convergence funding(!!!) and says the stadium could have joint owners.
"It might be that we have to phase in aspects of the development but I am confident I could get the funding. I see this as The One and All Stadium for the people of Cornwall(hmmm...more like KH margins)."
Despite his optimism over the stadium, Mr Heaney says he remains "shocked and disappointed" over the refusal of the academy, primarily because of the delay in providing sports training facilities for children(bring the kids into it again - street kickers of Brazil/Africa/Spain get nowhere of course...) .
"It is quite rare that a community facility was effectively going to be gifted to the community.(such a generous MAN FROM MONACO) People might look back to 2007 and remember that they could have had this facility built for them for nothing. Now they have to wait five, maybe 10 years."(Pile on the psychological pressure again KH...squeeze in the imaginary regret.)
He said good training facilities to develop young players were crucial if he was to turn Truro City into a professional club.
Mr Heaney said rugby and football teams shared stadiums elsewhere in the country. "This could be shared with any rugby team in the county, not only one. It could also be used for concerts."(bring in the music!)
Asked whether his plans clashed with those for a Cornish Pirates rugby stadium in Redruth or Camborne, Mr Heaney replied: "Truro City will never move out of Truro and will never play at Camborne, not as long as I'm chairman."(when is the next board of directors election?)'
Kevin Heaney Personal Advertorial above (apart from TK commentary in brackets) courtesy of 'Concreting Cornwall Daily'...oops!...
Northclifffe Media's 'Western Morning News'...
'Plans to redevelop the club's cramped site at Treyew Road have been put on hold.
Mr Heaney's development company Cornish Homes already has initial planning permission for a major office development there, but that can only go ahead once new pitches are found.'
Victims have been counting the costs after a tremendous downpour saw roads turned into rivers and subways submerged as flash floods swept through Truro.
Businesses lost thousands of pounds on Friday last week as flooding forced them to close and the mayor's charity golf tournament was washed out.Local travel and trade were crippled by flooding, with the Trafalgar Roundabout ending up under knee-deep water within minutes.
Shoppers were soaked from head to toe and the Argos store in Victoria Square had to close for two hours.
A staff member who was working at the time said: "The water came in from the car park at the back.
"It was running down the aisles and everywhere.
"We had to finish the orders we were doing at the time and ask everybody to leave while we mopped up.
"It was such a quick downpour, but very heavy."
Goods and fittings worth thousands of pounds were damaged at the ETS Electrical shop in King Street, which closed for three days, while clothing retailer TopShop, next door, evacuated customers during the 45-minute deluge.
The Lakeland shop in Boscawen Street lost an afternoon's trade after rain poured in through a skylight window. Manager Lisa Neal said: "The roof drains at the rear could not cope with the sheer volume of water and it flooded in above the stairs.
"For health and safety reasons we had to close at about 2pm because we were concerned about water getting into the electrics.
"By the time we got someone round to check them and found they were safe it was 5.15pm so we cleared up and opened again in the morning."
Players at Truro Boscawen Rotary Club's annual Charity Golf Day were forced to run for cover as the skies above Truro Golf Club opened up.
One player said: "A few teams got around early because it was not too bad but it soon came pouring down and the whole tournament was called off at about 3pm.
"We finished about four holes and then it was just torrential and the greens were turned into mini-lakes, so they had no alternative.
"We were left hanging around in the rain until they decided to have a random draw for the prizes which had been donated."
Amateur snapper Daniel Anker, 20, who supplied the West Briton with pictures and videos of the chaos, said: "At about 2.30pm I saw it out the window and that it was building up, so I went down the road and it was just pouring into Morlaix Avenue.
"The steps at the bottom of Barrack Lane looked like a waterfall."
Truro's top policeman Insp Mark Richards was caught up in the mayhem and said: "I stuck on my wellies and tried to clear the drain at the Trafalgar Roundabout and then in Morlaix Avenue after people were asking if I knew there was a waterfall on the steps.
"The dual carriageway was reduced to half of one lane.
"It was the most rain I'd seen in 10 years here."
The storm appeared to have been isolated as the precipitation was above and beyond the 20mm (less than an inch) recorded by the Met Office at its nearest site on Bodmin Moor.'
Too much hardstanding.
Time to halt the overdevelopment of Truro and its surroundings by Heaney & Co - that will be REAL 'progress'!
You can't ave rich football stuff down here in Cornwall. If you have too much top football in Cornwall it's too yuppie. People will make too much money.
Do you want David Beckham down here. Best keep it down to earth, see.
The hypocracy is amazing. Of course these young lads who want to be the next David Beckham or whatever aren't yuppies right!
Don't forget that Truro is our Capital... If we are to grow we need our Capital to be rich and prosperous.
Unfortunately that means higher house prices in the centre and further development.
I think every Cornish person would agree with the fact that we have a house price problem and too much development on green belt land.
But I think that Truro is one exception to the rule.
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