Showing posts with label St Erth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Erth. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

St Erth Park & Ride Update



In other news from Cornwall Council on the day they removed the leader, I note that something I wrote about back in February has come back to the Council.

In February I blogged (read it here) about the most disorganised council planning application I had ever seen. The planning applicant was Cornwall Council, so you would have expected them to get it right wouldn't you?  

Today it was announced that the planning Ombudsman has recommended that the St Erth Park & Ride decision goes back to Strategic Planning, because Members were 'misled'.

The new leader has a difficult task getting the councillors on side but I believe he faces a bigger challenge getting the Chief Exec to control the officers.

Thursday, 9 February 2012

St Erth Park and Ride

Today I watched the Strategic Planning Meeting from Cornwall Council on its plans for a Park and Ride at St Erth. (Planning officer favourite for the year)

Whatever the merits of this plan, my overriding impression was that not enough, well planning, had gone into it.

Remembering that the applicant is Cornwall Council, you would have though the officers would have some idea of what was going on outside of their offices, public meetings etc. But no.

The officers did not seem clear as to what the park and ride was for, one saying it’s to relive traffic in St Ives, then it’s Penzance and later still Penwith, it’s for tourists, no commuters, to take traffic off the A30.

How many cars will use it, we don’t know. 
How will it be funded once in place, don’t know. 
Can you buy a parking ticket and train/bus ticket, we haven’t looked at that.
How much will it cost to park, we don’t know. 
Which busses will serve the park & ride, the bus companies have indicated that they have no plans to divert busses to the site. Park and no Ride?  The 300 will go to the site, (the 300 is the open top circular route, summer only service).  
How will you address access to the site, lights on the A30, will this not cause congestion, we don’t know. 
What about the narrow bridge? 
How will a pedestrian get to the site?
And so on, you get the idea I'm sure.

Cornwall Councils bacon saved by late intervention of legal suggesting a site inspection, stops what looks like  a refusal. Decision deferred. 

Now a bit of a rush to do some planning and issue Hymn sheets before the next meeting.