Local community roads

My hope for the future is that the Council resurface Mexico Lane and build a pavement along Churchtown Road to Riviere Towans. The road is regularly used by pedestrians which has has a 60 mph speed limi and a bend with poor visibility. Let’s hope the Council are listening.

I want to keep cycling!

During lockdown my primary school aged children could cycle confidently on the roads in Launceston and the rural lanes beyond. They absolutely loved their experience of the freedom of the roads, which all us adults had as children when there was much less traffic. The kids' school is 2 miles from our house, easily cycleable for them now. As a family we all want to keep cycling both for recreation and to get to and from school. But as traffic levels have risen again, so their road confidence is evaporating. Also, cycling in traffic-polluted air is not enjoyable. Please could…

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…