A Blissful Two Months

Having lived in Cornwall for 36 years and worked for 20 of those years I have watched a beautiful county filled with great people slowly ruin itself.

The County Council is a disgrace and should be thoroughly ashamed of the way it has performed. Mass tourism is a curse which should have been controlled by better planning. It is not only big business from 'up the line' which is to blame. We have plenty of home grown so called developers who have raped the county by building poor quality housing after knocking down beautiful granite houses, St Ives is a prime example. They are only interested in money and the second home market. This is where planning control is supposed to protect the county.

Tourism in some forms can be a benefit but the mass of people who descend on Cornwall are a curse and people like Malcolm Bell and CCC are very short sighted. The lockdown has been of great benefit in making people who live here permanently realise the damage which has been done.

I am afraid to say that I have got very little sympathy for anyone involved in the tourist trade as we would be much better off, in the long term, without the distortion of the jobs market and housing it brings.

The second home problem MUST be dealt with and I would urge people to vote for councillors who have got the guts to do what is required for once. There are far too many vested interests involved in the running of this county which has done untold harm and is causing huge resentment.