Grade Ruan Parish Plan
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Grade Ruan Parish Plan enhancing our lives, now and for the future Index Title Page Associated Title Page Associated No tables No tables Objectives: 1 Cultural Activities and the Arts 14 The Purpose of the Strategy 1 Cultural Activities and the Arts Table 15 D The Life of this Strategy 1 Leisure 16 The Parish of Grade Ruan 2 Leisure Table 17 E Present Amenities 3 Health 18 History Notes 4 Health Table 18 F The Story so far 5 Housing 19 Environment 8 Housing Table 19 G Environment Table 9 A Employment & Training 20 Traffic 10 Employment & Training Table 21 H Traffic Table 11 B Summary 22 Community Facilities 12 List of other Potential Projects 23, 24 Community Facilities Table 13 C Glossary & Acknowledgements 25 Photo Index Photo Page No Photo Page No The Parish of Grade Ruan 2 Grade Ruan Under Fives Group 12 Grade Ruan C of E Primary School 3 Rozen Furniture 13 St Ruan Church 3 Cadgwith Thespians Midsummer Night’s Dream 14 The old pavilion building 4 Costume/set preparations for the production 14 Fishing Boats at Cadgwith 4 Another scene from the 2002 production 15 Goonhilly Satellite dishes 5 New multi-purpose court at Recreation ground 16 St. Ruan’s Well 5 Ruan Minor Play Area at Recreation ground 16 Have Your Say Day 6 Gig rowers off Cadgwith 16 Grade Ruan Village Hall 6 Gig Clubhouse prior to refurbishment 17 GRAB Logo 7 Ruan Minor Doctors surgery 18 Entrance to the Village of Ruan Minor 8 Doctors plaque at surgery 18 Ruan Minor post office and Spar shop 8 New build housing at Long Moor (1) 19 Tree planting at Cadgwith car park 9 New build housing at Long Moor (2) 19 Parking problems outside Grade Ruan School 10 The Old Telephone Exchange Cadgwith 21 Speed sign on entrance to village/speeding car 11 Parish Montage 22 Objectives The Purpose of the Strategy To set out an achievable To vocalise the wishes To define the routes to and long-term vision for and needs of the local enable these needs and the future of the parish, community, and to liaise concerns to be addressed and to establish with Kerrier District and acted on as far as priorities for action Council and others to possible. within the community. improve and enhance the quality of the existing To sustain awareness To provide the environment. about our natural, mechanisms to inform cultural and socio- and influence the To place on record the economic environment decisions of statutory ideas and concerns without preconceptions bodies, agencies, regarding the varied or unfair bias. individuals and needs of the present and organizations with future population of regard to community Grade Ruan parish. priorities and identified local needs. The Life of this Strategy While this Strategy is intended to present the parish views for the years 2002-2012 it is also seen as a valid base for the more distant future. 1 The Parish of Grade Ruan Area of Outstanding Kennack Sands is a popular Blue Flag Natural Beauty; beach for visitors and locals while with an interesting Cadgwith retains its historical small boat and accessible fishing industry. Poltesco, now a National coastline, Heritage Trust property, had a thriving serpentine Coast and Special factory in Victorian times which supplied Areas of fascias and artifacts for many homes and Conservation; flat prestigious buildings. It has long ceased inland Downs and production. sites of Special The parish has an off-season population Scientific Interest. in excess of 1010 with the majority living The whole area can in Ruan Minor the centre for most be affected by services. The second largest number of south-westerly properties lie in the historic fishing cove winter gales. This of Cadgwith, linked with St Ruan and environment has Prazegooth. supported farming and fishing as the The population increases greatly at main economies. holiday times through visitors to the The land has a holiday and caravan parks at Penhale complex chemical and Kuggar and the many second homes mix over the unique and holiday lets. serpentine rock Our parish lies in the southern area of providing habitats for many rare and Most of the remaining properties are the Lizard Peninsula, in fact the 50th unusual plants. There are deeply cut outlying farms and homesteads at parallel cuts across one parish boundary. stream valleys across the parish which Grade, Predannack and other locations. Enjoying a generally mild climate it is an add to its diversity and beauty. 2 Present Amenities connects the village with the Lizard, two The public toilets at Cadgwith and miles, Mullion, five miles, Helston, ten Kennack are under the direct miles, and Truro, twenty five miles. A responsibility of Kerrier District Council rural road connects Ruan Minor, whereas Grade Ruan Parish Council are Cadgwith, Kuggar et al with the main KDC agents to oversee the cleaning and A3083 to Helston and beyond. locking up of the toilets at Ruan Minor. Cadgwith has several seasonal businesses plus the popular Cadgwith Cove Inn, which continues the tradition of regular live music sessions of varying styles alongside the bars and restaurant. There are Art Galleries exhibiting work by local artists and the Old Lifeboat House, currently in the process of repair and sensitive alteration which provides premises for the Cadgwith Pilot Gig Club. The primary school, of Beacon status, is There is the Kennack Sands Hotel at in the centre of Ruan Minor. It currently Kuggar; and Holiday Parks, one above has ninety pupils and lies close to St Kennack Sands, and the largest at Rumon church. We also have a Methodist Penhale on the main Helston/ Lizard church in Ruan Minor, the small St road. There are several caravan parks. Mary’s at Cadgwith, and St Grada across Other than these the largest business the fields at Grade. Ruan Minor also premises are for Rozen Furniture, near contains a purpose-built doctor’s Treleague cross roads, which makes both surgery; general shop and newsagent, bespoke and a range of other furniture. which also houses the sub-post office; a small fruit and flowers shop; as well as a There are public car parks at Cadgwith Village Hall. There is a recreation ground and Kennack Sands with a free car park close to the village centre with children’s in Ruan Minor. play area and a hard surface multi-use activities court. An hourly bus service 3 Social activities include a Snooker Club, History Notes Cadgwith in smuggling ventures with the Playgroup, Wednesday Club, Youth Club, infamous Lady Killigrew. Many of the old Short Mat Bowling, and a well-attended buildings remaining in Cadgwith, a Thursday morning market held in the Within the northern boundary lies an Conservation Area, including fish cellars Village Hall. Several football teams play ancient standing stone. Many Bronze age still in use, some by descendants of regularly but the pitch needs barrows are scattered over Goonhilly, earlier Cadgwith fishermen. Others are improvement and better drainage. the Downs area, where legend states now converted to a restaurant and Cultural interests include the Cadgwith that copper ore was mined. Certainly it is holiday accommodation but the winch Thespians, Lizard Fine Art Society, a play likely that tin was streamed in the past house etc all links the past with the reading group and other literary and and there are several areas in the parish present. The Old Lifeboat House, home visual art groups. where the unique serpentine stone was of the Cadgwith Lifeboat, the earliest quarried (see Poltesco serpentine boat on this section of the Lizard coast, factory) This quarrying has been is now being fitted out for the Cadgwith severely constrained more recently. Pilot Gig Club, which illustrates the importance of keeping traditional skills Many of the parish names reflect the alive. When renovation is finished it will Celtic Cornish language describing also house a display of Cadgwith Lifeboat places, woods and valleys. history. Poltesco Valley and Caerleon have a varied history from Elizabethan times while Erisey, near Penhale, can trace its history back to 1279. James Erisey, a Sheriff of Cornwall from 15112-1513, has a fine brass commemorating him and his family in Grade church. The parishes of St Grade and St Rumon amalgamated in the twentieth century to become Grade Ruan. In the sixteenth century other less worthy claims to fame link men from 4 In the nineteenth century mail from a or are unloaded at larger ports for The Story so far wrecked hot air balloon was washed distribution. Farm products and ashore at Cadgwith but in1885 a more manufactured goods, art and local crafts reliable means of communication, the all use the roads in and out of the parish Originating from initiatives with West first under water telegraph cable to as do the holiday visitors. Cornwall LEADER project and continuing Bilbao, was laid from Kennack Sands. with help from Cornwall County Council, Since then first Wireless and Telegraph With low producing farm land, wide through the advice of the Lizard followed by British Telecom have plateau and quiet valleys, attractive Countryside Officer; the Countryside developed increasingly sophisticated walks, beautiful old churches, a Holy Agency’s Vital Villages scheme; Cornwall means of communication and in fact the Well, many traditional buildings, plus the Rural Community Council; and various Earth Station at Goonhilly is only a mile wide variety of unusual plants and a way public sources of information plus the or two up the road. of life which centres on family and goodwill of Councillors and Clerks to the community the people who live here are Councils, arrangements were set in place aware of its environment, its history and to bring together the opinions and social mix.