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May 2023 Newsletter


In this edition:

Emailed full version click HERE

PFD printed version click May News

As well as the on line newsletter we also offer a print copy which can be delivered to you within the parish. We love your feedback and articles email to editor@south-hill  or call Ali on 07305 044049.

You can follow us on our new FACEBOOK Group  the FACEBOOK South Hill Parish page  will hibernate. You can share posts of interest, lost cats and dogs, for sale or wanted items…

THANK YOU, AND ENJOY READING THE NEWSLETTER.

From The Connection Team

Archived newsletters (all of them!)
can be found in our public Google Drive folder – here…

South Hill Parish CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN


The South Hill Parish council approved this draft at their April meeting and will now be passed to SHARE for their comments, and can be further discussed at the PC Annual Meeting on Wednesday 31st MAY 7:30pm start.

Any comments you have can be voiced at the meeting or you can contact Cllr. David Skelton with your thoughts and ideas. davidskeltonshpc@gmail.com

Helicopter Survey


Kate Taylor Smith· Do you remember seeing or hearing about this helicopter with the wheel-shaped object beneath it flying over parts of Cornwall towards the end of February / start of March?

I’m investigating reaction to these overflights, as part of a research project that I am carrying out at Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter.

I’d be most grateful if you could spare 5 – 10 minutes to complete my questionnaire and tell me what you thought: https://exeter.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/cornwall_helicopter…

Thank you so much for your help and time.

Recycling for Charity project April 1st


Two New Recycling Programmes

From 1st April: To further promote recycling with TerraCycle, Coca Cola    is introducing plastic ring pulls on ALL their range of drinks cans. NO THEY AREN’T Ring Pulls will not be plastic, keep saving your cans for us though. TY.

Please Start Saving NOW ! and put them with the drinks cans in the bin at Green Meadows or at the bag at Moorland View footpath to Trewoodloe Lane. Thank you.

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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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