Locals first

We need to provide good jobs, good wages and reasonably priced housing to our local young people If we want to see them stay in the county. I’d like to see companies being encouraged to set up businesses in Cornwall and providing jobs and apprenticeships with fair wages. We need to provide cheap housing to locals and stop developers selling to others out of county who can afford higher prices. Many of these houses become second homes and are often left empty for many months, whilst our young people struggle to find a roof over their heads.
If more houses have to be built, we need to stop building estates that have as many houses as possible crammed into a small space. We may want a home of our own, but we do want space, privacy, parking and a decent garden too. I’ve yet to see new homes that have these. It seems developers greed is always at the forefront. We also don’t want all our beautiful landscape covered with these concrete houses in a huge, ugly blot on the landscape. A few houses built in each village and town would be enough for locals. Planning must be looked at sensibly and these huge housing developments stopped.