Cabinet to consider resubmission of Battery Rocks planning application
13/9/09Graeme Hicks, the transport portfolio holder at Cornwall Council will this week ask the Cabinet of Cornwall Council to agree to the resubmission of plans to build on Battery Rocks beach.
The Cabinet meeting which takes place in Truro on the 16th September will also be asked to agree to the parallel further investigation of the out of town freight depot approach and the use of the old Trinity House museum building as a passenger terminal.
The Friends of Penzance Harbour have prepared a briefing for Cabinet Members (see below) and requested that the Cabinet reject the proposal to resubmit plans to build on Battery Rocks beach and instead put the Council’s money, time and effort into expediting the development of an alternative scheme based on an out of town freight handling depot and a passenger terminal on an existing harbour-side site.
One of the most serious concerns surrounding the dissolution of the old District Councils and the setting up of the new Cornwall Council unitary authority was that decision making would become centralised and remote from those that were most affected by it. Graeme Hicks has tried and failed to persuade local Town and County councillors to support the Route Partnership’s plans and now he hopes that a group of councillors from other parts of Cornwall (there are no Cabinet members from the Penzance area) will allow him to force his scheme through. We can only hope that his Cabinet colleagues have more respect for local democracy than he does!
The Friends of Penzance Harbour will attend the Cabinet meeting; it you would like to join us use the contact details on the home page.
Cabinet Briefing : download pdf | view pdf