Saturday, 19 October 2013

The Latest From Your Parish Councillor - Martin Corney

By the time this goes to press the window of opportunity to make representations to Cornwall Council about the Neighbourhood Area for the St Ive Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan will be closed – it ends 25th October. No other parish has had a single comment at this stage in the process, so I expect that we will be made an approved area this month. So now that that bit of bureaucracy is out of the way, we can get on with finding out what you want the future of the parish to be, and making it happen.

It’s not straightforward looking at the future of the parish. Three hundred people in St Ive right on the A390, so good communications, but with few facilities. Then we have two thousand people in Pensilva, with the school, surgery and industrial estate, but at the end of narrow lanes. The trend shows an increasing number of retirees joining the community, while the lack of jobs for the young drives them away. This skews the population towards the elderly, with a surprisingly large number of single occupancy dwellings. I’m working on the Community Profile document which shows the current state of the parish, which is why I see these issues which our Neighbourhood Plan will need to address.

The Neighbourhood Development Plan Working Group has now been given Terms of Reference by the Parish Council, which at least gives us all an idea of what we are supposed to be doing. We will be looking to include “local members of the community who can bring value to the project” in the working group, so keep a look out for forthcoming events.

The Facebook Page "St Ive Parish Council" (which non-Facebook users can view at www.facebook.com/stiveparishcouncil) is being updated regularly with local news items. Tell me if you want different items, or join in and be an editor/contributor. Maybe your group wants some internet visibility for your events – just ask.

The parish web site is still very much a “work in progress”. I’m still looking for contributions – background information about the parish would be good. Also, if you want to learn and join in creating the web site, I’m still looking for volunteers.

Phone me, email me on martin.corney@btinternet.com or "martin corney blog st ive" in search engines will find my blogs for you to comment on.

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