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he full impacts of willing to provide any CORNWALL option for further savings Major Study of Saltash coronavirus and funding. GLL has also asked COUNCIL would be to further reduce the Tlockdown are starting Cornwall Council for financial ferry service in Torpoint. This to become increasingly clear, help but the impact of Covid and our PL12 community option was also debated, but Waterfront Begins and many organisations are means the Council already every councillor in the struggling financially. Saltash needs to find an extra £20 For Observer readers meeting agreed that this was Leisure Centre, along with million of savings in the next Sam Tamlin not the right thing to do: the many other leisure centres in year. Cornwall Council’s Cornwall Councillor for Saltash West savings from this would be too Cornwall, has not yet Cabinet confirmed in E: [email protected]. small to solve the financial reopened. A not-for-profit September that they are total loss of income as it and Ferry qualify for this problem, it would have a organisation called GLL has a looking in to ways to support coincided with the lowest scheme, but I believe they massive impact on the town of contract to operate the leisure GLL, and their priority is to traffic volumes. The should as they are owned Torpoint, and a loss of the centres owned by Cornwall get the closed centres continuingly low traffic solely by Cornwall Council overnight ferry, for example, Council, which includes our reopened as soon as possible. volume is a major concern, and Plymouth City Council. It would have huge implications Saltash Leisure Centre. GLL The Tamar Bridge and with no guarantee that it will is un clea r how m uch funding for the emergency services for operates many leisure centres Torpoint Ferry Join t eve r recover. It seems that the would be available , b ut it is the whole of the Rame across the UK, but the loss of Committee finds itself in a increase in working from possible that it will be enough Peninsula. income caused by lockdown similar financial position. In home and possibly a shrinking to preven t an inc rease in the The Committee had two combined with the cost of this case, income loss has economy has cut the number tolls. other options, both of which altash Town Council have appointed consultants, the John changes needed to reopen come from a massive fall in of commuters, which is having Coun c ill ors were asked to involved increasing tolls. One Grimes Partnership to carry out a study of the Saltash them have resulted in a loss for traffic which went as low as a detrimental effect on the look at this financial problem option was start the process for Swaterfront areas for the Saltash Coastal Communities Team. GLL in Cornwall alone of 80% below normal levels at income for the two crossings. at the start of September. The a 20% increase in tolls, and The Saltash Coastal Communities Team, is made up of volunteers around £5 million. As a social one stage, and is still 10-20% As the Joint Chair of the law requires the crossings to hope that funding from central from local businesses, organisations and members of the public, as enterprise, GLL has not below what would be expected Committee I have been calling be funded by users and not the government arrives before the well as Town and Cornwall councillors. qualified for any government at this time of year. Tolls were for funding from the general public, and although process is complete. The other The team won a bid for financial support. Cornwall suspended over lockdown in governme nt since the start of emergency loans might be was to wait and hope that £50,000 from the COVID 19 has Council has joined local accordance with government the lockdown. Most recently, available from Cornwall funding arrives before having Government’s Coastal Revival authorities across the South guidance an d t o support k e y COMMERCIALwe have app lINSTALLATIONSied to a national Council and Plymouth City no option but to increase tolls Not Gone Away! T • M • E Fund to carry out a design West to lobby the government workers using the B ridge an d scheme where the government Council the crossings are by 40%. The committee feasibility study for public to provide funding to Ferry as well as staff at the is offering to replace local required by law to cover their narrowly chose the first of realm and flood protection New Rules to safeguard the future of this Crossings. The loss of income authorities’ lost income. ow n co sts an d pay ba ck any these options. Personally I improvements to the area. vital service, but so far from suspending tolls accounts Government has not given us loans. Cost savi ngs have think this was the least worst Areas of Saltash suffer Keep Us Safe… government has not shown for a small proportion of the confirmation that the Bridge already been made, so the only option, as if enough funding from significant flooding s the number of comes from the government during Spring Tides, and these ACoronavirus cases starts the increase can be stopped or are predicted to get rising again in England and RPB possibly reversed, and if there considerably worse over the Cornwall, limits on the number is no funding from central coming years, and some form VEHICLE SOLUTIONS of people you can see socially government then we will at of barrier could provide LTD have changed. 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options or agree with what we process which included workplaces or childcare and G FREE COURTESY CAR SERVICE & RECOVERY did? interviews. Their bid was education settings, and Covid- SERVICE My email address is impressive and they clearly secure venues such as BOOK ONLINE: sam.tamlin@cornwallcouncill showed they understood the restaurants can still host larger @wwwrpbvehicle solutions.co.uk ors.org.uk, I doubt I will be issues and area.’ numbers in total, but groups of
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views. funding bids to carry out the Rachel Wigglesworth, )) 01752 220809 -!), -%,!.)%#/33%1),, 1/0%1*!-%2#/4+-!), -%,!.)%#/33%1),, 1/0%1*!-%2#/4+ vital protection work, as well Cornwall Council’s Director of ) as making some carefully Public Health, said: “It’s ) +70% /1 !#%3)-%+70% /1 !#%3)-% chosen improvements to the important to say that the vast ) public realm areas to enhance majority of people in Cornwall ) /#)!,,7 )23!.#%$ 00/).3-%.32 ). /41 0!#)/42 &&)#%/#)!,,7 )23!.#%$ 00/).3-%.32 ). /41 0!#)/42 &&)#% the appeal and experience for have been keeping up with social residents and visitors alike. A distancing rules, and this is public consultation to illustrate evident in the low number of potential design options is cases that we have here currently. planned for the autumn, But Coronavirus hasn’t gone 9%%$ (%,0 /1 !$5)#% : however Covid restrictions away.” Indeed, the number of !,, %,!.)% /33%1),, /. &/1 01!#3)#!, mean we may need to take a cases is continuing to rise in different approach to engaging Cornwall: in the week leading to 01/&%22)/.!, !$5)#% !5!),!",% 3(1/4'(/43 3(% ,/#+$/6. with people. This means it is 2nd September there were 5 new important that everyone in the cases in Cornwall, but in the 0%1)/$ !.$ "%7/.$8 town is aware of what is going week leading to 23rd September on and what we are planning this figure had risen to 83. to do so that they can spread Rachel went on to say: the word now and keep an eye “Please remember when %$)#!, %12/.!, ),,2 /--%1#)!, !-),7 47).' open for further details.’ meeting in groups of six to still %',)'%.#% .*417 .(%1)3!.#% 1/0%137 !6 %,,).' /41 Tom White, from the John maintain social distancing, don’t %!2%2 /-% Grimes Partnership added ‘We hug anyone outside your are delighted to be appointed immediate household or support Contact us for a FREE initial consultation for the study, and look forward bubble. Wash your hands often, to working with the CCT and limit how many people you see 07592 532091 | [email protected] wider community to bring over a short period of time and if forward a plan to protect and meeting indoors try to keep the improve this beautiful area room ventilated by opening over the coming years’. doors and windows.” Saltash and District Observer - September 2020 - Page 2
News from Saltash Town Council Town Messenger Konsel an dre Essa Working for the People of Saltash
Education Department looking rather splendid with was a great pleasure to service. Please see the Town live the nearest possible to From the Mayor of Saltash clean simple lines that will welcome both visitors in my Council website for more normality in the coming Telephone: 0300 1234 101 s I write this column, make the building very role as Mayor. information. months. We all have a part to Email: welcoming to any weary Some other good news at the I sign off for now, in the hope play in beating this virus, but [email protected] the news of an Aincreasing Coronavirus traveller. time of writing, is that the that you and yours stay safe, but you will probably never know Education Welfare: infection rate and the possibility A great deal of thanks for Guildhall has reopened, but with a request that everyone what a simple act of putting on Telephone: 0300 1234 101 of a further lockdown is making restoration of the Station with limited hours and services obeys whatever restrictions are a face mask might achieve as [email protected] for gloomy headlines. building, is due to Cllr Richard to adapt to Covid-19 in place, so that the infection part of the bigger picture. I am sure that most of us, Bickford, who with his Station regulations, the Library also is rate is kept as low as possible, Kind Regards, Pete Samuels, Housing Department myself included, never thought Sub Committee, have not only currently operating a limited which in turn will enable all to Mayor of Saltash Telephone: 0300 1234 161 that having gone through the overseen the progression of the Email: [email protected] lockdown in March, we would project, they have also secured Social Services Department still be facing the now almost multiple grants and funds to pay for the restoration, therefore the Telephone: 0300 1234 101 inevitable cancellation of Town now has a wonderful Email: events that were scheduled well [email protected] into 2021. Looking a little further asset at a minimum cost. Of particular regret is the ahead, there are also plans The first of my two ‘official’ Social Services Department almost certain fact that there being made for the Christmas visits to the Station was to Telephone: 0300 1234 131 will be no traditional period and what can be welcome the Transport [email protected] Remembrance Day Parade in achieved whilst working within Portfolio Holder for Cornwall, Highways Department November. Only a few short the likely restrictions applicable Geoff Brown, who has been of weeks ago, we at Saltash Town during the Festive Season. I did great assistance in helping Telephone: 0300 1234 222 Council, were looking at ways think twice about using the Saltash Town Council to Email: that we could hold some sort of word festive, but I can tell you achieve the restoration of the customerrelations@cormacllimited that your Town Councillors are building, the second visit was to .co.uk Remembrance Parade and/or Service, but with the current working on some exciting ideas welcome our local MP Sheryll Transport Department restriction now down to groups which will make this Christmas Murray, who left extremely of six being allowed to meet, memorable, but for all the right impressed by what she saw. It (Schools Transport) reasons. Telephone: 0300 1234 101 those plans are all but unachievable. Another thing to look (Bus Pass) Telephone: 0300 forward to, when the time is Saltash North Saltash South Saltash East Saltash West Mayor: 1234 222 The Town Council are Your Sarah Gillies Sheila Lennox-Boyd Richard Bickford Gloria Challen Pete Samuels determined, however, that we right, is the official re-opening Email: of the Station building, the s.gillies@ s.lennox-boyd@ r.bickford@ g.challen@ [email protected] will pay our respects to those Town brave men and women who work on which is now all but saltash.gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk Deputy Mayor: Roads, Transport and Parking gave their lives for the complete. Many of you will Council Julie Rance Telephone: 0300 1234 222 freedoms we have enjoyed have seen the exterior of the Brenda Samuels Sarah Martin Mike Parker Jean Dent Email: during our lifetimes. building, magnificently b.samuels@ s.martin@ m.parker@ j.dent@ Town Clerk: roadstransportandparking@cornwall restored, but I can tell you that Remembrance Sunday will be saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk Ray Lane .gov.uk commemorated, but perhaps in having visited a couple of times recently, the interior is also T: 844846 Waste Department a less conventional way. Bill Phillips Averil Pinckney Julie Rance Steve Miller E: enquiries@ Telephone: 0300 1234 141 b.phillips@ a.pinckney@ j.rance@ s.miller@ saltash .gov.uk Email: via contact form on website saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk only. Fore Street Bench Repairs Councillors Cormac Solutions telephone Julia Peggs Mark Fox Pete Samuels David Yates numbers can Telephone: 01872 323 313 p.samuels@ be obtained at Email: j.peggs@ m.fox@ d.yates@ [email protected] saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk saltash .gov.uk the guildhall. Fly Tipping: Telephone: 0300 1234 141 Saltash Town Council, The Guildhall, 12 Lower Fore Street, Saltash PL12 6JX Email: Tel.: 01752 844846 Email: enquiries@saltash .gov.uk Website: www.saltash .gov.uk [email protected] Gold and Black St Piran colour Town Messenger scheme Community Chest Supporting Local Meet Your Councillor news is supplied he Saltash Town Council Service Department are now t a recent meeting of Organisations Councillor Sheila Lennox-Boyd continuing with the Fore Street bench repairs and the Policy and Finance South Ward Saltash by the Town Trefurbishments. This started in the weeks before Covid 19 ACommittee Saltash ver a number of lockdown and one bench was completed at the top of town which Town Councillors approved years, Saltash Town fter forty years in the Council shows the new treatment and colour scheme. Unfortunately, this the following Community OCouncil have hospitality trade while programme of refurbishment had to be suspended during lockdown. Chest applications. annually appointed Arunning a number of We are now in a continuous loop of removing 2/3 benches at a Coombe Woods Councillors as successful businesses in and around time for repair in the service department workshop where we are Regeneration Project was representatives to various Saltash, Sheila Lennox-Boyd replacing and painting all the wooden slats with our new colour awarded £600.00 for producing outside organisations. decided to further involve herself in scheme and removing rust and re-painting the metal end frames. and printing Map Boards to be A recent meeting of the her community by standing for Council. She was already placed in strategic places in Policy and Finance involved in the local sporting scene as President of Saltash Coombe Woods. Committee took the decision United football club and a patron of the rugby club in Saltash. Christmas Lights to cease making these Saltash Rugby Club were Having been elected a Cornwall Councillor in 2017 she s.lennox- appointments, instead ue to the current situation Saltash Town Council will awarded £1000.00 to refurbish decided that it would be helpful for a local councillor to serve [email protected] allowing Members of the unfortunately not be holding an official Christmas Light its changing rooms. on both Cornwall and Saltash Town Council so successfully Council to join in their own DSwitch on event this year but instead Saltash Town Council Saltash Town Council have stood for South ward later that year. right, if they wish to do so. Members agreed a bright Fore Street with Christmas Lights across awarded a grant of £1000 from As a former local business person and employer she is the Community Chest to the It was acknowledged that many Council sites would add as a morale booster for residents and especially keen to see Saltash and Cornwall work together [email protected] Saltash 1941 Blitz Committee there are many more visitors after what has been a difficult year for us all. with a sound vision for the future of Saltash. She sees the to go toward the organisations within the Following the meeting of the Christmas Lights and Town Events Town teams on which she serves as having potential to see the Sub-Committee held on 16th September 2020 it was agreed by commemorations in April 2021 wider community that have Town emerge post COVID, regenerated and more prosperous, Members that the switch on of the lights would go ahead late to mark the 80th anniversary of not had a formal presenting a united front she sees opening up revenue sources [email protected] afternoon of Friday 13th November 2020 with residents and visitors the Saltash blitz. representative appointed in to achieve this. of Fore Street being able to view the lights in the early evening. Saltash Town Council would the past. Sheila also serves on the library sub committee, while Local businesses may also consider late night opening on this day like to thank to voluntary We feel therefore that we providing additional services to those visiting to view the lights. workers involved for their can give better service and holding a monthly surgery there she has become increasingly aware of its popularity and potential as a community asset [email protected] In addition, Saltash Town Council are to join residents and local consistent hard work. cover a wider network of businesses decorating the Guildhall windows as part of the Window Saltash groups and organisations by not following proposed refurbishment. Living in the Saltash countryside along side a public Wanderland Festival which anyone can get be involved with by organisations are welcome to appointing Councillors to apply for both Community specific groups, but instead to footpath Sheila, during lockdown, was made aware of the simply registering at: https://www.windowwanderland.com/event/saltash-cornwall- Chest and Festival Fund give all a chance to request value of our rights of way for physical and mental wellbeing 2020/ monies. For more information our assistance when required. especially giving climate change concerns. She is now Saltash Town Council are greatly disappointed that celebrations and application forms please If your organisation needs walking all local footpaths and is anxious to ensure they are have required to be scaled back this Christmas but know that look at the Saltash Town our help, please contact us assessable and properly publicised. together with local businesses we can still offer residents and visitors Council website: via email at: Sheila can be contacted via Saltash Town Council website of our high street a fantastic local and warm welcome. https://www.saltash.gov.uk/forms.php [email protected] www.saltash.gov.uk Saltash & District Observer - September 2020 - Page 3 Chamber Chairman Peter Sandcastle Winners Announced Ryland - Keeping us Updated… " n this article, I would like to open the opportunity to any employer in Saltash or the surrounding area to take part in the IGovernment’s Kickstart Scheme. Under this initiative, the government will fully subsidise, for 6 months, the costs of employing young people aged between 16 and 24 who are at risk of long-term unemployment. The employers will receive funding for 100% of the National Minimum Wage for 25 hours a week along with N.I. and pension contributions. Obviously, it is hoped that these young people will then continue in employment. The Kickstart scheme is only ! open to those who can create As part of the town centre employment for 30 or more regeneration initiative, I was in young people, but the Chamber an online meeting with is prepared to co-ordinate a Councillor Tim Dwelly from MOVING ON REMOVALS grouping so that smaller Penzance, who gave us an employers who may only be insight into how that town has able to take on one or two secured funding for various altash children were PROFESSIONAL HOUSEHOLD employees can also take projects. I hope this will give us able to enjoy seaside REMOVAL SERVICES advantage of this initiative. food for thought as to what we Sfun without having Heritage Team Busy Kickstart is due to start in need to do in Saltash. to travel thanks to the November, but if you are I mentioned in my July community stepping Planning Museum’s interested then please contact article that, with my forward to raise funds and me at: [email protected]. To Community Enterprises hat on, bring 27 tonnes of sand Saltash 249318 the Chamber this seems a good we are refurbishing the offices from Padstow to the slip Re-Opening opportunity, and I hope that at Belle Vue Road for Citizens Mob: 07411 589 903 alongside Ashtorre Rock. lthough the Saltash Heritage Museum remains closed, employers also recognise the Advice. This work has now Saltash Scrapstore ran a together with almost all other smaller museums in the chance that it can provide. been completed and I would competition encouraging country, the Heritage committee has remained busy Obviously, to proceed will be like to thank local building A answering queries, carrying out research, and planning for dependant on numbers and contractor, Shaun Libby, for all families to upload a photo future exhibitions from the vast collection of artifacts. Government approval, but you his efforts along with local of their sandy creation to don’t know unless you ask. electrician, Andy Booth. We their Facebook page. The museum was almost I have talked with several also purchased the floor tiles Scrapstore have announced set to open this Spring promote the town’s history in businesses on the industrial locally at Spectrum Floor-site that the winners are Sofia, featuring an exhibition to co- the age of Covid. The estates over the last month, and Ltd. It was good to be able to Sienna and Harvey, who all incide with VE and VJ 75th possibility of opening the most are positive about the support local business in this worked as a team to create anniversaries “War and Peace museum to pre-booked visitors later this year, with future as long as there is not way. as many sandcastles as they – the 1940’s”. It has been decided to hold this over until full precautions in effect, was another Covid lockdown. Finally on a sad note: our could. They all win prizes next year when it will mark considered and the Heritage However the “Brexit” word has sympathies go out to Bill donated by Truly the 80th anniversary of the website will give updates on risen again in conversations, Cotton, who was my Scrumptious Sweet Shop. and for many the trade deal with predecessor as Chairman of the devastating blitz upon this. Martha, who has supported Saltash. The Local History Centre, the EU is a critical factor. Chamber, on the passing of his the beach on a regular wife, Val. It was heart-warming The Heritage committee with its vast wealth of Hopefully we will know in the basis, also wins a prize of 4 next month or so the nature of to see how many people turned remains active and recently documents, maps, pictures tickets to Lappa Valley, the deal and how it will affect out in Fore Street to see her held a socially distanced and photographs, may also be kindly donated by Julia the various sectors of the funeral procession and show discussion in the Treasurer’s opened to pre-booked business community. their support for the family. Peggs. garden to consider how to visitors, subject to restrictions. Indeed Terry Cummings, the archivist, has probably been busier than before lockdown dealing with enquiries from all over the world, largely from those with local connections seeking to add to their information on family history. The team has also been transcribing leases B ,-&&"& "/+ dating back to the 18th B century and transferring over !"$*&1+ $0 * 100 Fore Street, Saltash Tel: 01752 848370 B 21,000 records to the *% *"&$0 , database. It should be easier B -+, ' **-$ '', '-&'-, than ever to access information on the rich B '!+ * heritage of Saltash and the rural surroundings once all is ''#"& + $'% fully re-opened. This year’s Grand Family History Day has been moved to June 2021, and the eager team is anxious to ensure that its permanent and temporary exhibitions are better than ! , $ " # ,& , " ever when open to one and all. Saltash Heritage are ! looking forward to their ! future with confidence and " enthusiasm. ! $ !! " !! " (! !# * Police Close %) " " &!&$ $ ) #! Down Flats !!$ )! wo houses in Tamar Street '!%+ Ton the Waterside have been & " #! closed and residents removed ! following complaints from !# "#$! $ neighbours of continual noise and anti-social behaviour. 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