Listening to you 2025

Penwithick meeting POSTPONED - We are trying to arrange a new date asap

Cllr Linda Taylor is the Leader of Cornwall Council.

Linda leads Cornwall Council’s Cabinet – which is the group of councillors responsible for making most of the decisions at Cornwall Council.

Linda has been holding public meetings, to meet and hear from Cornwall's residents. So far Linda has been to Callington, Falmouth, Helston, Perranporth, Bude, Bodmin, St Austell, Truro, Penzance, Redruth and Saltash.

You can read the questions asked and responses given at each of those events, in the summary reports section.

As a result of the General Election in July 2024, we postponed some of the meetings that were due to take place in June. We are still trying to reschedule the event in Penwithick. We will promote this event as soon as we have a date and venue.

The next phase of Linda's public engagement begins in January 2025.

Linda will be visiting more communities during January and February 2025 to hear from local people.

Linda will be visiting Camborne, Newquay, Launceston and St Agnes, as well as Penwithick when we have a date and venue confirmed.

These events will be very informal. You are welcome to come along and ask Linda a question about local issues or Cornwall Council services and priorities, or just have a chat.

As well as visiting Camborne as part of her informal chats, Linda has also been invited to visit the Camborne Deaf Community Centre, where there will be British Sign Language interpretation and live captions on a screen for people who are deaf or have hearing loss. Linda has also been invited to meet with the Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change (CN4C) Co-design team.

Hearing directly from people helps Linda, and her Cabinet colleagues, to understand what is on people's minds. Linda wants to meet as many people in as many communities as possible.

You do not have to agree with other people's opinion but we ask you to be respectful and considerate.

Please let us know if you have any specific accessibility needs - as we want everyone to be able to take part.

Linda has really enjoyed meeting people and hearing from them about what's on their mind.

"I want to really listen to local residents, businesses and community groups and hear what they see as the local priorities and how we can work together to make Cornwall an even better place.

I also hope to hear from them about how we can work with communities for a Carbon Neutral Cornwall, where everyone can start well, live well and age well."

Cllr Linda Taylor, Leader of Cornwall Council