I have only recently become aware of Cornwall24 and have been gratified to read of the Penlee Quarry/Port Penlee thread; how many of you are against the development; and how many want to help - thank you for your support.
I apologise for our basic website holding page and to those who have tried to contact us through it, I'll reply to you individually over this coming weekend. The new website will be fully interactive thankfully.
Stop The Marina! are very active at the moment although it may not appear so to the untrained eye. We are preparing a letter writing campaign and a supporter's meeting at the end of November. I am also piecing together the new website which will be announced in a few more weeks. We have also joined forces with another protest group: 'Protect Newlyn Coombe', who are fighting against the proposed seafood park (fish processing industrial estate) on 16 acres of pristine greenfield site at Stable Hobba, Newlyn. The two schemes are linked, as are the other six schemes in and around Newlyn. There will be an article about the regeneration in The Times sometime in November. This will probably be in three consecutive installments, we had a reporting team down for a whole weekend. The big supporters meeting/get together will at the Lugger Inn PZ (function room) at the end of November - details to be announced.
I will be posting our two recent press releases and a piece that I am writing for the website which explains how the various schemes are all interconnected - these will be as three seperate new threads and hope this will not cause confusion. I would be very grateful for any constructive comments on these but I cannot guarantee that I will be able to extensively participate in the discussions; I really am up to my eyes in it at the moment and hope you can bear with me.
why don't you find out the names of the people behind the marina. then find out the names of the people behind some other schemes you don't like. you might find they are the same names. then you can start naming names. they won't like that. at the moment 'stop the marina' sounds like an inside job to get people barking up the wrong tree. you can only 'stop the marina' if you bring people down. it just depends on how much you really want it.
:!: Lucy
You seem to be very anti the stop the marina group,(in your various postings across this site) without actually having been in touch with them; I am beginning to wonder if you work for the Marina developers or their various co-investors
I never suggested they were. Seeing as the MK crowd here think that second class, state provided, subsidised by taxes, housing is all the Cornish can aspire to, then maybe you should vent your ire at them. I'm not doing the Cornish down by suggesting they compete with the rest of the UK am I?
How come I moved to Cornwall, and on a health workers salary, bought my house then?
It's what we in the real world call "a lie". Some 20% go to second homes/retireee's, the rest go to those who get their thumbs out of their butts and actually compete in the market.
I'd feel it was affordable. Jealous? Don't blame me for what I earn. Don't blame me for not demanding special treatment. Don't blame me for working 10-15 hours overtime per week.
Strop, not everyone in Cornwall (or anywhere else) earns above average wages. That's why they are called *average* wages. If checkout girls and dustmen and seasonal ice-cream sellers were paid the same wages as a lawyer then I'm sure all of us could afford homes in Cornwall. But they aren't, and never will be, so getting "their thumbs out of their butts" won't necessarily help them if the only jobs they are able (or feel able) to do are in the lower end of the pay spectrum. I'm not jealous of what you earn, but I also don't care that you work overtime, or that you don't cover the mortgage on your second home with the rent you charge. That's your choice, don't ram it down our throats, and don't expect any sympathy from the rest of us. I have to work overtime too, and I don't get paid for it, but it's my choice and you don't hear me bleating on about it (well, except then obviously).
No, not really, last year I was statistically in the top 5% earnings wise it the UK. No I just have something called principles and a sense of fairness. So if you want to play who's got more money, you lose!
In terms of house prices, that would almost have been a net loss over the year between 2003/4 as the average house price went up around that much.
And don't give me that shit about working hard blah, blah. I have a list of professional qualifications and 2 degrees, one of which is a first class that I took part time whilst doing 2 jobs. I work ALL the time.
That's besides the point you shouldn't have to be in the top 5% to be able to buy a house.
Average wage in Penwith is around £16k average house price is around £200k - I think even you can do the maths for that.
Times have changed - read the news. $1.2 trillion personal debt, 300% house price inflation
Yes we need to think globally every time we think and I don't believe that concern for our immediate community is contradicting that (before someone accuses me of it).
Yes but a half decent nurses salary stroppy which is not good but then again not bad for Cornwall. Did you also have a house to sell wherever you were before?
So why are Cornish kids unable to train as nurses and healthcare workers and earn; " half decent nurses salary, which is not good but then again not bad for Cornwall"? Why are they relugated to low paid jobs in the tourist industry?
Nope, it's the first and only house I have bought. I saved for the deposit out of money I earned while working in an off-license in Exeter, which also paid for my second degree.
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) will be able to buy houses in these prime waterside locations? I imagine, very few.