Category Archives: Cornwall Council

Affordable Housing in Golberdon


On 10th November 2025 a public meeting was held at the Parish Hall to discuss options for the small field next to Moorland View in Golberdon.

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting.

Chris Sims {Community Link Officer – Tamar to Moor Community Area Partnership}, Justine Rolfe {Affordable Housing Officer} and our Cornwall Councillor, Jim Gale were able to answer some of the numerous questions asked and concerns raised.

This presentation shows the main points covered at the meeting:

Affordable Housing pptDownload

Cornwall Council owns this field, which produces very little income rented out at agricultural rates. They are proposing to sell it on the open market, unless there is an interest in the Community to use it for affordable housing.

The consensus from the meeting was that we need to know more about affordable housing and how that might be a possibility in Golberdon. The way forward and to get answers to our questions is to form an Affordable Housing Working Party which will ensure that the local community is involved in any development.

Copies of a questionnaire were handed out. Thank you to everyone who provided Justine with valuable information by answering the questions. She will very soon be providing a summary which will be posted here.

If you weren’t at the meeting, you can still complete this questionnaire and bring it to the meeting advertised below.

QUESTIONNAIRE

Around 10 people expressed an interest in being part of a Working Party. That is encouraging. If you want to help, the work won’t be on just a few people’s shoulders.

The Parish Hall has been booked for a first meeting:

Working Party , Monday December 15th at 6.00 pm.

This is a public meeting. Anyone is welcome whether you want to join in or just see what’s going on.

The first thing to decide is Terms of Reference for the Working Party. See link to draft below. Next, we will be working towards submitting a pre-application to the planning department. We can also apply for a grant which is available to explore the possibility of forming a Community-Led Housing Organisation. Hopefully we can have another meeting early next year with Simon Ryan as guest speaker. Simon is part of Three Seas, a small independent housing creator for Cornwall.

Draft Terms of Reference

Visit to Bodmin Materials Recovery Centre


Once cardboard has been offloaded

the plastics container can be opened

and offloaded. 

We were delighted to see how many schools have visited.

Recycling for Charity project volunteers

visited on July 16th 2024 and toured the facility.

Paper baled

After our recycling has been collected by Cornwall council kerbside service, it’s taken to Bodmin Materials Recovery Centre before sending on to the next stage in it’s journey to be recycled. 53 lorries a day drop off recycling here. Cornwall council tell me… Since the new system has started We have collected over 3,000 tonnes of food waste so far and kerbside recycling in South East Cornwall has gone from 36% to 58%.

Paper – goes to recycling companies in Somerset and Kent where it is reprocessed into 100% recycled paper for newsprint and packaging.

Cardboard – is also taken to Somerset and Kent where it is sorted and reprocessed into new cardboard.

DS Smiths (who have a site in Launceston) claim they can turn a cardboard box that has been put out for kerbside collection back into a cardboard box in 14 days.

Steel cans –go to Swansea to be made into many different products including cars, bridges and cans.

Aluminium cans and foil – all these go to companies in Swindon and Swansea where they are melted and turned into ingots to be used to make everything from foil trays to aeroplanes.

Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays – a number of different companies take these in Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent, Essex and Buckinghamshire where they are sorted, shredded, melted and reused to make things including garden furniture, refuse bags and drainage pipes.

Glass bottles and jars – are first taken to Falmouth port before being shipped to Scunthorpe or Tilbury. A laser sorts by colour and can then be made back into glass bottles and jars.

Clothes & textiles – The Salvation Army collects and sends to JMP Wilcox the largest, textile reclaimers and processors in the UK. Post-consumer clothing is brought to the four-acre site at Bilston, near M6 West Midlands to a purpose-built, fully-computerised sorting and processing unit. Over 99% of the material is reused or recycled and more than 90% is exported around the world. The greatest demand is in Africa, Asia & Eastern Europe. Clothing demand more than doubled between 2000 and 2018, driven by the increased middle class, shorter fashion cycles and garment life.  Many of the items not fit for purpose as reusable clothing become industrial wiping products, flock rags or mixed felt material and stay in the UK.  Putting items in Salvation Army clothes banks goes on the same journey.  

Any decent wearable clothes, shoes, belts should be dropped to charity shops or Fire Fighters yellow skips at fire stations. IMO.

Garden waste – this stays local going to Roche, to compost for agricultural and horticultural use. Sometimes during the year this is given away if you can bag and collect.  

Food waste  – goes to a transfer station at Liskeard to be loaded into lorries to take to Holsworthy to the Anaerobic Digestor which produces energy as well as biogas and digestates ie soil improver and used as a high quality agricultural fertiliser.

South Hill Parish Housing Need Survey Report results


South Hill Housing Need Survey Final Report V0.1 (cornwall.gov.uk)

Summary
Housing Need Survey

  • A survey of local housing need was carried out by Cornwall Council’s
    Affordable Housing Team, on behalf of South Hill Parish Council, between 20th
    March 2023 and 30th April 2023.
  • The survey was sent to 225 households in the parish, and 65 responses were
    received – a response rate of 29%.
  • 12% of respondents stated they were in need of affordable housing, 100% of
    which stated they had a local connection to the parishes.
    o 6 (75%) want to live Anywhere in the Parish
    o 2 (25%) want to live in Golberdon
    o 2 (25%) were interested in self-build housing
  • The survey identified 6 ‘hidden households’ that are not registered with
    Homechoice.

CORNWALL COUNCIL encourage all parishes to consider conducting a parish survey.

Parish and other housing need surveys:

  • Provide vital information about the housing need in an area
  • Help in planning new developments
  • Help to show the need for affordable housing
  • Help show the level of community support for new development.
  • Parish surveys can help to produce a Parish Plan, which sets out a vision for a parish.

You can see other parishes that have had recent housing need surveys here Housing needs surveys and reports – Cornwall Council

SHARE visit to The Incinerator


Tour of the incinerator centre or CERC Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre, as it’s called, at St Dennis.

If you’d like to join us on Thursday 24th August, either am or pm, let Laurence know.

There is no charge for the tour, which lasts 2 hours.

Children must be over 7 years of age to visit this site.

More details to follow once we have names and numbers.

Numbers are limited.

If you’d be prepared to drive please let us know.

We’ll visit the Bodmin recycling centre another time as it’s currently closed for redevelopment work. TY .

EMAIL laurencersmith76@btinternet.com

Thank you Laurence for arrranging this.

Suggestions for other visits welcome.

Parish council Bridleway application


Taken from the Parish Council report of the meetings held on 16 May 2023

Some details have been obtained of the application by the British Horse Society for bridleways. The application has now been validated by Cornwall Council with details viewable from the following link https://secure.cornwall.gov.uk/dmmo/web and search for WCA 823.

Editor : This is what I found. 823 and 824

Modification Order Application Details | Modification Orders (cornwall.gov.uk)

Modification Order Application Details | Modification Orders (cornwall.gov.uk)

South Hill parish Housing Survey


South Hill Housing Needs Survey | Let’s Talk Cornwall

Here are other parishes survey results > Housing needs surveys and reports – Cornwall Council

FROM OUR PARISH COUNCIL: HOUSING NEEDS SURVEY: It’s never been easy to buy or rent a home in Cornwall where prices are higher than average but wages are below average.  The number of homes for rent has gone down in recent years because of the number of houses sold for second homes or for holiday rental. Thankfully in this parish, that has had minimal effect but it is still very hard for anyone who grows up locally to get a job which pays well enough to afford a home here. 

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February 2023 Newsletter


In this edition:

Newsletter full format version – click here… 

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Devolution views from C’Wall Cllr Adrian Parsons


Consultation on the proposed Cornwall Devolution Deal | Let’s Talk Cornwall THIS QUESTIONNAIRE CLOSES ON FEBRUARY 17th 2023 More views here Mayor for Cornwall debate and the full facts about the Devolution Deal – Cornwall Live

Adrian Parsons – Cornwall Councillor for Altarnun & Stoke Climsland

As part of the Government’s Help for Households initiative, Go Cornwall Bus is participating in the nationwide £2 fare capping scheme for all single bus journeys across their network, until the end of March. First Kernow and Stagecoach are also taking part. All single journeys in North Cornwall are covered by the scheme!

My thoughts regarding the Devolution Deal being offered to Cornwall!

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Urban Terrace Homes, Callington


Work on Cornwall Council’s scheme to build 15 new affordable homes for local people in Callington is underway, with the first residents expected to move into their new homes in late 2023.

The new homes, which are being built at Urban Terrace, replace 10 council-owned and 5 privately owned homes built in the 1959’s. The properties had to be demolished following identification of Mundic, which was gradually making them structurally unsound.

The new scheme will provide 4 one-bedroom flats, 7 two-bedroom houses and 4 three-bedroom houses with gardens and parking. All the homes will be highly insulated and heated with low carbon air source heat pumps.

As well as providing the 15 new homes, the scheme will also include landscaping and tree planting, with bee bricks and bird boxes being used as part of the landscaping process to increase biodiversity.

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South Hill Parish news


April 2024 South Hill Connection Newsletter.

In this edition:

  • Happy Easter enjoy the Egg Hunt, Trail & donkey
  • New council kerbside collection starts
  • Council Housing in the parish
  • Comedy Evening at The Parish Hall
  • St. Sampson’s Open Afternoon
  • Internet, which is the best provider?
  • Seasonal car parking ticket
  • All our local Advertisers here
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