The Cornwall We Want

What are your hopes and fears for the future?

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  Natural beauty

  by Futurista, almost 6 years ago

  I would love the Council to follow up on its commitment to climate action by creating schemes to encourage and support more "green" business and technology in Cornwall. This is the economic growth area for the future, and could create many high-silled non-seasonal jobs, which Cornwall desperately needs. Cornwall could become a centre of excellence for ecological research and innovation, and at the same time improve Cornwall's care of nature and wildlife, energy use, etc. Other good areas to grow jobs would be science and medicine - these are high-skilled but non-polluting. I also think there should be a small... Continue reading

  I would love the Council to follow up on its commitment to climate action by creating schemes to encourage and support more "green" business and technology in Cornwall. This is the economic growth area for the future, and could create many high-silled non-seasonal jobs, which Cornwall desperately needs. Cornwall could become a centre of excellence for ecological research and innovation, and at the same time improve Cornwall's care of nature and wildlife, energy use, etc. Other good areas to grow jobs would be science and medicine - these are high-skilled but non-polluting. I also think there should be a small tourist tax to help fund local services and subsidise the excessive water bills that Cornish people pay for beach cleaning. Many Cornish residents are on low incomes but have to pay extremely high water bills, and I really don't think tourists would mind paying a small additional charge, especially if they know it goes towards keeping the beaches pristine.
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  by J_J_G, almost 6 years ago

  Could those who are writing in Cornish, Please provide translation underneath? or anyone provide translation, thanks so much

  Could those who are writing in Cornish, Please provide translation underneath? or anyone provide translation, thanks so much
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  My Feelings

  by Peter Parkinson, almost 6 years ago

  My feeling is that Cornwall cannot go on relying on the dubious benefit of tourism as a major source of employment and finance. It has its place but as it stands, it is ultimately unsustainable. Holiday homes converted or built, lead to depopulation in small towns and villages because local people can't afford the house prices. They can only watch as whole terraces become empty and dark at the end of each holiday season. How would that be dealt with in towns in Surrey or Hampshire ? Why is it allowed to continue and in some degree encouraged here ?

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  My feeling is that Cornwall cannot go on relying on the dubious benefit of tourism as a major source of employment and finance. It has its place but as it stands, it is ultimately unsustainable. Holiday homes converted or built, lead to depopulation in small towns and villages because local people can't afford the house prices. They can only watch as whole terraces become empty and dark at the end of each holiday season. How would that be dealt with in towns in Surrey or Hampshire ? Why is it allowed to continue and in some degree encouraged here ?

  The (ongoing) experience of the Coronavirus lockdown is that life can go on without visitors, in a far more pleasant way for Cornish residents. There is local culture which operates independently of tourism. Towns like St Just (in Penwith) have some advantage in not being 'seaside' towns, whose infrastructure is essentially shaped by tourism.

  There is of course, a concern that Cornwall needs an income. People need jobs. But a short seasonal influx of visitors spending their money here is an unreliable source, all too reliable in generating tourist infrastructure, gift shops, cafés, public toilets, parking areas, beach facilities and so on. It is a balance. And I am not advocating that tourists should be turned back at the Tamar. But I am suggesting that the balance has tipped too far in the tourism direction.

  Increasing – 'creating' – jobs is not always good thing. It depends on th nature of the job. Apart from housing, every planning application is supported by a claim that it would create jobs, and of course even building houses creates work for local builders.

  But job creation should be judged on the quality and sustainability of the jobs. The frightening discovery that the Government expected to source PPE by buying from other countries, who at the time needed their own supplies, reveals a historic lack of manufacturing – making things – in Britain. Eventually the Government sourced PPE from numbers of businesses, small and flexible enough to supply their requirements. There is a lesson that. Small business are valuable – and should be encouraged.

  It seems to me that Cornwall should develop policies to encourage small, creative, manufacturing businesses, as a more sustainable means of providing employment. The argument that geographically Cornwall lacks good communication links to deliver goods to the rest of Britain or abroad, clearly precludes the manufacture of heavy, bulk goods. But with smaller, valuable, specialist products, transport and delivery represents a small percentage of costs.

  Inventive and creative industries – signs, screen printing, sculptural metalwork, ceramics, printing, electronics, software ; specialist machining, welding, injection moulding, 3D printing, prototyping all fall into that category.

  There are already numbers creative people in Cornwall, and a climate to provide workspaces and support such developments would encourage others to come to such a desirable region.

  Or is it just dream ? and all we can look forward to is turning Cornwall into a kind of Disneyland ?

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Ich auch

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  Bywnans Kernewekka #2

  by SandraandBella, almost 6 years ago

  Dydh da Breusyas. Nowydh studhyores kernewek ov vy mes ny wrug vy konvedhes henna. A yll'ta dasheverel henna yn sowsnek mar pleg? Meur ras.

  Dydh da Breusyas. Nowydh studhyores kernewek ov vy mes ny wrug vy konvedhes henna. A yll'ta dasheverel henna yn sowsnek mar pleg? Meur ras.
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  Small properties suitable as permanent homes #2

  almost 6 years ago

  Absolutely @A.M.

  Absolutely @A.M.
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  by CP, almost 6 years ago

  I have learned a lot from lockdown and what I actually need in my life, and what I actually like doing and miss, etc. For the new normal I would like to continue working from home for at least 2 days a week, although I have concerns about how this has taken over the house (which was fine during lockdown when no one could visit!).

  I think it has been good to see the reduced traffic and in a way the easing of lockdown has only highlighted just how bad the traffic can be. There was something very moving about... Continue reading

  I have learned a lot from lockdown and what I actually need in my life, and what I actually like doing and miss, etc. For the new normal I would like to continue working from home for at least 2 days a week, although I have concerns about how this has taken over the house (which was fine during lockdown when no one could visit!).

  I think it has been good to see the reduced traffic and in a way the easing of lockdown has only highlighted just how bad the traffic can be. There was something very moving about seeing nature come to life when humans stopped having such a massive impact on the environment. I would like to see ways of reducing traffic, including better and cheaper public transport.

  I would also like to see more affordable housing, and less developments of 'Grand Designs' style totally unaffordable (for most people) homes. People need to be able to afford to live and in many places we seem to have the toxic combination of low paid jobs but high house prices.

  I would also like to see Cornwall being seen as welcoming and inclusive, not backwards or bigoted (as some press coverage has indicated recently). We do rely on tourism and we need to make it work for us (so that we are not swamped and priced out of the nicer areas, etc), but we also want to be a place where everyone feels welcome - whether they're holidaying or moving here. I have also never understood why we don't have a tourist tax. I seem to have to pay one everywhere else these days!

  I think there has been a lot to learn in these times, and I think the Council has been responsive and supportive as the pandemic set in. Long may it continue!

  
  
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  Less is more

  by sp1984 , almost 6 years ago

  We need to rely less on tourism to get by. Its great that we have lots of work through summer but personally I feel I cant say no to work shifts and actually enjoy Cornwall with my family in summer because I need to make up for what I will lose in the quieter seasons. At the moment we will be lucky if we have any work this year with so many businesses closing. We need more year round jobs and to keep the young in Cornwall rather than leaving after school or university.

  Rent is ever increasing. I am... Continue reading

  We need to rely less on tourism to get by. Its great that we have lots of work through summer but personally I feel I cant say no to work shifts and actually enjoy Cornwall with my family in summer because I need to make up for what I will lose in the quieter seasons. At the moment we will be lucky if we have any work this year with so many businesses closing. We need more year round jobs and to keep the young in Cornwall rather than leaving after school or university.

  Rent is ever increasing. I am concerned that our children will never be able to afford to live here as adults if the job and housing situation doesnt change, we shouldn't be building houses for second home owners.

  Id love to see more encouragement for recycling and growing your own veg- even if you rent this should be allowed, I think a small vegetable plot would benefit our health physically and mentally. I also agree with the many comments on cycling more and making towns traffic free.

  One way to encourage more public transport use it to make it more affordable- £9 return on the bus to truro or St Ives from camborne is far too expensive. Tourists will often ignore the queue for the bus in St Ives, if I cannot get on after work I would have to buy a seperate ticket for the train (which doesnt run early enough for me to do my whole journey by train).
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  Social housing

  almost 6 years ago

  I fear for my daughter's future, if anything happened to me she would not be allowed to stay in our home which is a housing association property. The private rents are unaffordable and shocking for what you pay for. I wouldn't swap with her, I feel so sorry for her generation for what previous generations have done. Councils sold houses and we're supposed to build new one's with the profits, SO WHERE ARE THEY?????

  I fear for my daughter's future, if anything happened to me she would not be allowed to stay in our home which is a housing association property. The private rents are unaffordable and shocking for what you pay for. I wouldn't swap with her, I feel so sorry for her generation for what previous generations have done. Councils sold houses and we're supposed to build new one's with the profits, SO WHERE ARE THEY?????
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  by Breusyas, almost 6 years ago

  Kurunviras yw 'Lurgy Bras' agan termyn, mes dhe'm brys vy nyns eus skila vyth dhe leverel bos an norvys dihaval dredho. Wor'tiwedh y fydh ev lehes ha degemmerys avel onan moy y'n rol hir a glevesow yw argoll rag pubonan pub dydh, avel Influenza. Nyns yw terroes ha nyns yw treylva yn plolitigiethek saw ni dh'y wul yndella. Mars eus hwans dhyn y dhevnydhya avel askus a-barth chanj, gwren ni yndella, mes nyns eus travyth dihaval es kyns, y'm brys vy, yw res yn Kernow. Res yw dhyn Senedh Kennedhlek; henn yw an dhallethva. Res yw aswonnans gans Governans UK... Continue reading

  Kurunviras yw 'Lurgy Bras' agan termyn, mes dhe'm brys vy nyns eus skila vyth dhe leverel bos an norvys dihaval dredho. Wor'tiwedh y fydh ev lehes ha degemmerys avel onan moy y'n rol hir a glevesow yw argoll rag pubonan pub dydh, avel Influenza. Nyns yw terroes ha nyns yw treylva yn plolitigiethek saw ni dh'y wul yndella. Mars eus hwans dhyn y dhevnydhya avel askus a-barth chanj, gwren ni yndella, mes nyns eus travyth dihaval es kyns, y'm brys vy, yw res yn Kernow. Res yw dhyn Senedh Kennedhlek; henn yw an dhallethva. Res yw aswonnans gans Governans UK nag usi Kernow rann Pow Sows, hag yw leverys yn lagha Predenek. Res yw aswonnans laghel a'n dus ha difresyans laghel a'ga Yeth. Wosa an traow na, ni a yll dalleth drehevel Kernow gwell.