St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Plan 2011

Coombe Foxhole Lanjeth & High Street Nanpean St Stephen Treviscoe Whitemoor Welcome...

This Parish Plan is the culmination of a great deal of work by the Parish Plan Steering Group, building on the results of the parish survey that many of you completed.

We were all new to this idea, from the first village meetings, the forming of the Steering Group, compiling the questionnaires and putting that information into a readable form, to the production of this Parish Plan. It has been a huge learning curve for all involved. The Parish Plan is a living document, which will change and be updated as time goes on. It gives the Parish Council and our partners a realistic idea of what the parishioners would like to see happening in the Parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel, and in their own villages.

We would like to thank everyone involved for their very hard work in making this project happen, and hope we have delivered a Parish Plan that we can be proud of as a Parish.

Councillor Dave Hatton Parish Plan Steering Group Contents

A profile of our Parish4

The work of St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Council 12

Why we need a Parish Plan 15

An overview of the Parish survey results 16

Summary of the Parish traffic survey 2010 24

Our Vision for St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish 26

Delivering the Vision: the Plan structure 28

Theme 1: Our environment 30

Theme 2: Traffic and transport 35

Theme 3: The local economy 37

Theme 4: Housing 40

Theme 5: Community health 45

Theme 6: Community well-being 48

Theme 7: Local government 53

Delivering the Parish Plan 59

Aerial view showing part of St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Contacts 62

3 A profile of our Parish

4 One Parish, seven very St Stephen-in-Brannel (known locally as St Stephen’s or St Stephen) is a civil parish and different villages: village in central Cornwall, United Kingdom, covering some 9,000 acres. The Parish runs from the Karslake Plateau in the north, 900 feet above Coombe sea level, down to the steeply wooded valleys of the River Fal, below Coombe. Foxhole St Stephen-in-Brannel (Cornish: Eglosstefan), is Lanjeth and High Street bounded on the north by St Dennis and Roche, Nanpean on the east by St Austell and St Mewan, on the south by Creed and Probus, and on the west by St Stephen Ladock and St Enoder. The Parish is named after Saint Stephen plus the addition of the manor Treviscoe name. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1085 as Bernel. The village of St Stephen is on Whitemoor the A3058 road linking the towns of Newquay and St Austell, and lies on the northern edge of the china clay industry which encouraged the growth of the village to the present population of over 5,000.

The expansion of the clay industry meant the face of the landscape has changed over time. The village of Hornick now lies under Blackpool Tip; Halviggan, a village of some 57 houses, now lies in Great Halviggan Pit, part of the modern Blackpool Pit complex; Meledor was lost to china clay development at Melbur; and Old Pound, once a busy village with carnivals, horse shows, and wrestling tournaments, is now a skeleton of the original village settlement.

The Parish today is composed of seven villages: Coombe, Foxhole, Lanjeth and High Street, Nanpean, St Stephen, Treviscoe and Whitemoor. The story of china clay in this area is also in many ways the story of all the villages in the Parish. The following pages give a brief over- view of each of the villages.

5 A profile of our Parish continued

Coombe The stone quarry and crushers closed amid safety concerns in the very early 1950’s. The village of Coombe is situated in a steep Fortunately the clay works thrived through wooded valley a few miles south of St Stephen increased investment and technology and a and the larger clay villages to the north. demand for the clay – the majority of families now had someone employed by E.C.L.P. Two The village owes its origin to agriculture and village shops and the post office survived until the mining of minerals. The earliest dwellings the 1970’s. in the valley were the manor farmhouses of Brannel, Bodinnick and Court, together with The community today is a world away from the scattered dwellings of smaller tenant that of half a century ago, when almost farmers. The development of tin and copper everyone had their roots in the village or mines together with the expansion of the parish; they worked locally, made their own Great Western Railway in the early and mid social life within the village, generally around 19th century respectively brought with it the church activities, the W.I. or Men’s Institute. necessity for more dwellings to accommodate Today, the new Coombe Community Trust the growing population. has set itself up as a charity to encompass the running and management of the playing field The village developed around these industries and the new community hall and to oversee the and by the turn of the century boasted three horse show and fete. This project has brought shops, a post office, a corn merchant and a coal people together and inspired a new feeling yard. Other businesses sprang up to support of ‘community’ within the village. With the the farming, mining and clay industries. Early regeneration of the Sunday school building into in the 20th century the winning of minerals from a new community space the future looks bright mining ceased to be profitable and one after for Coombe. another the mines failed, leaving many men unemployed – some emigrated to find work while others found employment in the growing clay works.

Life continued to be a struggle for many between the 1st and 2nd World Wars but this brought with it the need for more food production, farming intensified, marginal land was put into production and tractors replaced the farm horses. This mechanisation on the land gradually reduced the need for farm labour and tied cottages became empty and fell into disrepair, some never reconstructed. With the demise of the farm horses the blacksmith became a redundant occupation.

6 Foxhole Lanjeth and High Street

Foxhole is a china clay village with a lot ‘We first moved to Lanjeth in 1990 just after getting more history than it first seems. Bronze Age married. We loved the whole feel of the village and settlements were found to the east on Watch Hill the fact we were not completely surrounded by other before it was buried under the Blackpool Clay houses. After 9 years we moved away to town, but Tip. To the west Beacon Hill was used to warn this only lasted 4 years. We wanted the village feel of the coming of the Spanish Armada. The area back and the friendly feeling of a smaller community. around Foxhole and Carpalla was one of the first During our time away, a playing field was to be developed for china stone and china clay constructed with the help of a few local villagers, in the late 18th century, and the area already had who eventually raised enough money with the help a long history of tin streaming and tin mining. of a lottery grant to complete it. This is the only Unlike Nanpean, Foxhole in the 1880’s was still amenity for the local children. It was closed last year an unconnected string of farms, smallholdings for a while, but as a member of the village offered and individual cottages along the main road. to do all the maintenance work for nothing the Foxhole saw a spurt of housing in the early committee was able to re-open the park once again. 1900’s, becoming then recogniseable as a village. The Lanjeth and High Street Memorial Hall is the Today the village green sits on what was the site hub of all other village activities. A toddler group of the sand tip of Mid Cornwall Clay Works. meets there, where parents/carers, grand-parents The pit has been long filled in with mica, but and their toddlers meet and have a great time. It is can still be accessed for walks around its edges. also an opportunity for new residents with young There are good facilities in the village, including children to meet others in the village. Whirlybobs a shop, post office, school, sports clubs, and GP pre-school is also a well established group and has practice, but two notable exceptions are a public gone from strength to strength, offering the children house and a place of worship. Foxhole has grown a wide range of activities and experiences in this and changed over the years to meet local needs, early years setting. There are also short mat bowls, especially during the clay boom, but as the clay dancing and other activities available. On the whole industry shrinks Foxhole will continue to grow we have a fantastic setting for our village, the only to meet the new needs of its residents. thing missing is a pub!’ Michelle Durnin

7 A profile of our Parish continued

Nanpean Looking around the village today, the only houses in existence that are pre-1810 are the Nanpean is at the heart of one of the largest, Bakery House, opposite Nanpean Farm, also and longest-surviving, clay working areas; one pre-1810; and the row of eight terrace houses of the most important centres in the clay country opposite Drinnick Yard, known as Victoria for administration, management, processing, Terrace, which suggests they were built for the research, transport and supply, and the village workers in the early Victoria Bottoms Clay Pit. reflects that complexity of economic function. The Queens Arms is also pre-1810, and still stands on the opposite side of the road from the Nanpean (‘Little Valley’) was once regarded present-day Grenville Arms. by the rest of the Parish as ‘up on the downs’, being sparsely populated and 600-700 feet above During the 20th century the china clay industry sea level. Despite being an overtly industrial had expanded to such an extent that when the settlement Nanpean is actually more diverse in labour force left work, it was reminiscent of its character and surviving range of building the rush hour in Piccadilly Circus. There were types than might be thought; it was always enough employed at the former ECLP for a more than a simple workers’ settlement. Tithe bookmaker to set up in business, and for ‘Kettle maps of the early 19th century show about a Boys’ to transport fish and chips and pasties to dozen houses, a few smallholdings, and all the works sites. Nanpean was chosen as the Nanpean Farm at the centre of the hamlet. site for a chemical plant for the recovery of aluminium as a by-product from the nearby Tin was being extracted from little workings china clay workings during World War II when dotted about the area, some following tin lodes this metal was in short supply. However this to a depth of 20 fathoms. Smallholders worked industry is no longer undertaken in Nanpean. in the clay industry, but unlike the accepted view of an explosive reaction to the growing Today, with the workforce of the major clay clay industry all around, Nanpean was slow to company having shrunk from 8,000 to c.3,000, grow- the mix of part-time farming and tin Nanpean looks forward to the next stage in its working enabled the settlement to absorb evolution. pressures from the clay industry until well into the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century the population exploded as a result of industrial mechanisation. Houses were built to home migrants from all over Cornwall, and beyond.

During the slump in the 1930’s Victoria Bottoms Playing Field was converted from a disused clay pit into a recreation ground by unemployed locals who were paid subsistence money for their labour.

8 St Stephen

St Stephen is the churchtown of this large Parish. It is very much on the edge of the clay area but has played a significant role in the development of the clay industry, and was also the centre of china stone working, an essential accompaniment to china clay in the production of porcelain.

The village has doubled in size in the past 25 years. Four estates have been built. After 134 years the village Wesleyan Chapel closed for good by the end of 2010. By the end of 2010 we also saw three of the four filling stations closed to the general public. The recreation ground is still very much in use by many sports. Two public houses are still in business as is a social club/community centre. Many work-from- home businesses are well cared for but bakers, greengrocers, bicycle repair, shoe maker/ repairs, radio/tv, ironmonger, are long gone. Two well stocked grocery shops plus a post office, fish and chips, takeaway, still survive. Bottled milk from two village farms is sadly no longer to be had.

Brannel School after 48 years is now being replaced with a brand new £16million building. The junior school built over 25 years ago is a modern design and well attended.

In 1983, to help encourage additional industry to the area, the Parish Council purchased the former school premises in St Stephen from Cornwall County Council. The school was converted into a number of business units, still let by the Parish Council today. St Stephen-in- Brannel Parish Council offices are also based on the school site, alongside the community facility in the Brannel Room.

9 A profile of our Parish continued

Treviscoe Whitemoor

The villages of Treviscoe and Trethosa were ‘Whitemoor was originally a collection of small- at one time very closely linked with people holdings and cottages, stone or cob built, with large from the villages working together at carnival families and outdoor privvies. Living was poor as it time, during village fetes and at other events was mostly moorland and marsh where ‘bog cotton’ throughout the year. Sadly the old village school grew, which gave the village its name: ‘White Moor.’ at Trethosa has shut, along with the shop and On the 1906 map, Little Johns, Dorothy and Gothers post office at Treviscoe. The carnival week is no are marked as active clay pits, with an old pit at more and the once famous Treviscoe Male Voice Curyan. A school was opened in 1892. When more Choir is no longer in existence. houses were needed in 1927-30, railway carriages were brought from the line at Drinnick on flat-bed Treviscoe is actually two villages, Little carts, pulled by teams of horses; one, at the farm at Treviscoe and Central Treviscoe. The Institute Curyan, is still standing. At one time, there were and Community Centre, which was erected by three or four small ‘house-shops’, a cobblers, chip- voluntary labour, opened in 1986, and replaced shops, bike shop, and a petrol pump, although only the original Institute building which had stood a few cars: travelling salesmen came by bicycle. The between Little and Central Treviscoe since 1920. Chapel, now modernised, was the centre of village life It is well used by a number of organisations, for many years, the Mens Institute, now derelict, was societies and clubs, including three separate built mostly by volunteers; the Womens Institute at Country and Western Clubs which have live one time had fifty-plus members’. bands most weekends. The building is also used Mrs Dulcie Billing for the Annual Flower and Garden Show, and is hired out for birthday parties and private ‘From the 1950’s, things changed, with new roads events. The Playing Field was opened by the built, electricity, small shops gone. Sadly, there is not Duke of Edinburgh in 1952 and again was the the sense of community, of belonging and wanting to result of many hundreds of hours of voluntary help make the village an even better place to live’. work by people in the village. Local resident

10 11 The work of St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish CouncilCouncil

Our powers and duties ■ Provide allotments, and have a duty to do so if demand is unsatisfied. Power to improve and St Stephen-in-Brannel, like all other Parish adapt land for allotments, and to let grazing Councils, and Town Councils, has a wide range rights. of powers it can exercise, but as you read the ■ Provide public baths, washhouses, and bathing list below, you will see that not all of them huts. are appropriate to a Parish like St Stephen-in- ■ Acquire and maintain burial grounds, cemeteries, Brannel. Any Parish Council has to be minded crematoria. that the money for undertaking its duties in ■ Agree to maintain war memorials. the main comes from the precept: i.e. from the ■ Provide and maintain bus shelters. people of the Parish, although a Parish Council ■ Make bye-laws in relation to pleasure grounds, can apply for grant and funding awards. The cycle paths, open spaces, and burial grounds. precept is identified by the Parish Council, as a ■ Acquire land for or to provide recreation balance between the work it plans to undertake, grounds, pleasure grounds, open spaces. and knowledge of the economy of the ■ Provide gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday community it represents. Cornwall Council camps, and boating pools. collects the precept as part of the overall council ■ Provide public clocks. tax charge, and returns the parish precept ■ Establish markets. element to the Parish Council. ■ Maintain closed churchyards. ■ Provide public conveniences. The 1965 Royal Commission on Local ■ Provide common pasture, and regulate and Government (The Redcliffe-Maude manage commons and common pastures. Commission) recommended that local councils ■ Provide conference facilities. should be empowered to do what they pleased ■ Provide and equip buildings for clubs having for the benefit of their people, and a social, athletic or educational objectives. consequence of this was the important 1972 ■ Spend money on various crime prevention Local Government Act which removed many measures: install and maintain equipment and of the restrictions on the activities of Parish establish and maintain a scheme for detection or Councils. prevention of crime. ■ Deal with ponds and ditches. For example, before the 1972 Act, Parish ■ Provide entertainment and support of the arts; Councils were not able save money from one includes maintaining bands or orchestras and year to the next in order to fund a major project. providing for dancing. This is something all councils have to do these ■ Accept gifts. days to avoid having a massive council tax for ■ Repair and maintain public footpaths and each year that anything new is attempted. bridleways. ■ Light roads and public places. Town and Parish Councils have a wide range ■ Provide litter bins. of powers vested in them: the following is not a ■ Provide parking places for vehicles, motorcycles definitive list, but gives a clear idea of the range and bicycles. of powers and responsibilities: ■ Provide roadside seats and shelters.

12 ■ Give consent for stopping up or diversion of However, since April 2009 with the advent of highways, or ending maintenance of a highway at the new unitary authority, Cornwall Council, public expense. the introduction of Community Networks, and ■ Provide traffic signs and other notices. the move towards ‘localism’, new opportunities ■ Plant trees, maintain roadside verges. are emerging for Town and Parish Councils as ■ Participate in investment schemes. Cornwall Council looks to devolve services, and ■ Acquire land by agreement, appropriate land, where applicable assets, to local management. dispose of land, and accept gifts of land. So Parish Councils will be able to opt to take on ■ Promote lotteries. new services if they wish, possibly in partner- ■ Provide public buildings for offices, public ship with Cornwall Council, or neighbouring meetings and assemblies. parishes. This is discussed on the following ■ Contribute to organisations that encourage pages. tourism. ■ Utilise wells, springs or streams to provide The way we work water. ■ Provide small grants to local organisations and The way in which Parish Councils work is very to charities. strictly governed, and many of the procedures ■ We have a right to be notified of planning are determined by standing orders, codes of applications, and comment on all the conduct, and legislation. However within that applications that come before us, providing framework, we enjoy good levels of debate in local knowledge to the Planning Authority. order to make decisions about matters in front of us- these are ‘resolutions’- and our meetings In addition to all this, in any situation not are held in public, so we welcome input from covered by one of the specific powers described the public on Parish Council matters, or on any above, a Parish Council can do anything that is matter that you think we can help with. for the general benefit of the community, and provided that the expenditure in any one year The Parish Council meets every month, and does not exceed £6.44* per local government publishes in advance the business it plans to elector in that particular parish or community. discuss, in the form of an agenda posted on the Parish Council notice-boards and website. Most Parish Councils are not in a position to Members of the public are urged to look at the take on all these responsibilities: some of them forthcoming agenda for every meeting, so that do not make best sense in some parishes, others you know what is to be discussed and decided, need a rather more modern interpretation to fit so you may give your views. our day-to-day lives, and what can reasonably be expected of a Parish Council. We also Giving your views have to remember that Parish Councillors are volunteers, often in full-time employment and As we have commented above, all our meetings with other commitments, and many of the are held in public, although normally the public services listed above are currently provided by can only speak during ‘public participation’, a other agencies, such as Cornwall Council. period set aside whereby members of the public *2011-2012 figure

13 The work of St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Council continued

can raise matters with the Parish Council. We will be able to have greater control over If any issue raised by a member of public is on local service delivery, possibly working in the agenda for the meeting, we can discuss it partnership with other Town and Parish there and then and make decisions about it; if Councils nearby; and managing the budget that not, we may resolve to take the matter forward comes with the delivery of services. At the time to the next meeting as an agenda item,which of writing this Plan, Town and Parish Councils allows other members of the public to comment, are considering the potential to take over car and for the Parish Council to properly prepare, parks, and public toilets, owned and maintained and consider a response. There are exceptions to by Cornwall Council, and some Town and this, when the Council agrees to invite members Parish Councils are negotiating other packages of the public to speak on a specific item if it of service delivery and asset ownership where informs their debate, but not when Councillors there is a sound business case for this to happen. are actually making a decision: a resolution. We can expect to have a greater influence over On occasions, we need to discuss matters that planning decisions, and to play a proactive role at that time may be confidential or sensitive, in determining sites for affordable and market issues like salaries, competitive tenders for housing. This Plan will be a major contributor services, complaints against individuals, etc. to our ‘fitness for purpose’ in being a significant On these occasions we have within our remit planning consultee. the authority to move to a ‘Part Two’ agenda, whereby we resolve to exclude members of the Not all Parish Councils will want to take on press and public for those items. greater responsibilities, and we have yet to determine our position, as developments at A changing future Cornwall Council are in the early stages. However this Plan sets out a number of In the next few years we will see a big change Objectives that, responding to the community in the relationship between the Parish Council survey, will be on the Parish Council agenda in and Cornwall Council. This has already been the near future. touched on on previous pages, but the changing relationship will have a significant impact on the work of this Parish Council, so it is appropriate to reinforce the point here.

At the time of publication of this Plan, Parish Councils and Town Councils will be in receipt of correspondence from Cornwall Council on this subject, and it will be part of current deliberations at Town and Parish Council level. So this Plan, and the consultations that support it, will help the Parish Council, on behalf of the community, consider how best to move forward.

14 Why we need a Parish Plan

Many parishes have a Parish or Community A Parish Plan is extremely helpful to our Plan, and we have described why it will be elected representatives at Cornwall Council, essential for Parish Councils to plan for the enabling them to make decisions and take longer-term as Cornwall Council seeks to actions on behalf of our community based on devolve services and other responsibilities to the consultations, with a clear idea of the issues Town and Parish Councils. and priorities of the community.

Parish Plans are based on consultation with the Being proactive community, and are designed to help rural communities such as ours have a greater say in We need to be pro-active rather than reactive, their own affairs. Some plans are initiated by and we can best achieve that by being very clear community groups, but the majority, as here, about where both the Parish Council and the are ‘kickstarted’ by the Parish Council, which community want to be in the next 5-10 years, then sets up a working group of Councillors and through the publication of this Parish Plan. members of the community to drive the process Our partners, both now and in the future, will forward: our Parish Plan Steering Group. benefit from that clarity of purpose, and see us as a key partner in their work. That community consultation was achieved by the village-by-village survey, the Parish Plan In addition to the Parish Council we also see Questionnaire, and we are pleased that so many Cornwall Council as a key user of the Plan: they residents completed it. Our task has been to take will take account of our intentions for managing what you told us in that survey, and to articulate housing development, the need for economic the vision which local people have for the future regeneration support, for improvements to our of their parish. The Plan may cover anything infrastructure. In planning terms, Cornwall that is relevant to the people who live and work Council comment that a parish plan can: here, from social housing to places for children influence the county-wide community strategy; to play. Although all Parish Plans vary in the influence the planning policy framework; be language they use, ultimately they all propose a adopted as material planning considerations; range of actions, objectives or projects that will and be adopted as or inform the Supplementary enable their vision to be realised over time. Planning Documents. A clear agenda Clear messages to partners

So Parish Plans such as this are a two-way Finally, we know that the work of many dialogue: based on clear feedback about what organisations impact on our lives, and this Plan the community hopes and aspires to, it sets a will be communicated to them, to give them our clear agenda for the Parish Council; and it also agenda: to provide clear messages about what makes clear to other agencies and organisations we want to achieve in our community. what it is that the Parish Council, working with other partners and the community, will set out to achieve over a period of time.

15 An overview of the Parish survey results

Each of the villages had their own individual ‘Horses foul the footpaths so we response to the questions posed in the survey: this have to walk in the road with a is an overview of the issues most on people’s minds across the Parish as a whole. pushchair.’

Environment ‘Glass on the pavements: my dog had glass in her foot and had to Litter have a toe removed.’ Dog fouling is a real issue for 662 of our 769 respondents; the majority were happy with the frequency of street cleaning, grass verge cutting, ‘Regular rubbish dumped on and the number of litter bins. grass verges: tyres, old fridges, Recycling old paint, old prams.’ The number of our residents who recycle houshold waste is very impressive: 804 people ‘Generally a pleasant area to live answered this survey question: well over 600 recycle glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, and in as people living in the area care cans through kerbside recycling; and over 400 for it.’ recycle clothing at kerbside. The majority of respondents were very happy with these ‘Footpaths and bridleways are services- over 70% rated them ‘A’. Half of the respondents recycle garden waste at the local generally poorly maintained, tip. signposted, and promoted.’

Open spaces Opinion was divided on the open spaces in ‘More trees please.’ the Parish: well over half of the respondents felt that there are enough children’s play spaces, and ‘A better range of product that they are well maintained; half thought that there are enough footpaths, also well maintained. recycling needed.’ Signposting is adequate: a 68% positive response; yet over half of the 796 respondents did not know if there are enough bridleways, or their state of repair.

477 of the 796 wanted to see more trees planted. Half the respondents said there were no allotments in their village. 542 of the 796 felt safe using the open spaces: 143 people did not, and 48 did not know.

16 Energy would like and use a bus service in their village, 739 people answered questions on energy: although this response varied from village to specifically, if they would be interested in village. In Coombe, for example, only three finding out more if this were arranged: the vast people responded to questions about bus majority of respondents were not interested services, although 60% of households there in finding out more about energy efficient would use a bus service. light bulbs, solar panels, alternative forms of energy, roof insulation, self-sufficiency, or wind The most popular destinations for bus services: turbines. However, the numbers indicating an St Austell, and Truro, particularly for accessing interest, although a small percentage, varied schools and colleges. from 86 to 246 people, indicating it would be worth pursuing. Community buses Asked about community buses serving your A village map village, 72% of respondents did not know if The vast majority of respondents, 558 of 752, such a service existed; only 7% were aware of felt it would be useful to have a village map. such a service in the Parish overall. So the vast majority skipped this section of the survey. Traffic and transport In Whitemoor, four respondents said that the facility existed, 16 said it did not; 36 did not Predictably, 96% of first respondents in each know. Nobody in Coombe thinks there is a household used the car as the main form of community bus scheme; 31 respondents were transport; here, as with most questions, sure it did not exist, and 25 respondents did the percentage reduced as replies worked not know. In Foxhole, 15 respondents said there through the family. Buses are well used, and was a service, 30 said there was not; and 128 interestingly, a good percentage of ‘person respondents did not know. In Lanjeth and High two’ respondents, 40%, used a motorcycle Street, 3 respondents said there was a service, as their transport, probably reflecting the 22 said there was not; and 39 did not know. In previous presence of the Damerells dealership Nanpean, 10 said yes, 10 said no, and 42 did not in Whitemoor. A small percentage of the know. For St Stephen, 20 respondents said there population, 127 of 802 respondents, walk as was a service, 58 said there was not, and 252 did their main means of getting about; only 17 not know. Finally, in Treviscoe, 1 respondent people use trains, and 22 use taxis. felt there was a community bus service, 10 were sure there was not, and 40 did not know. Bus services 198 of 779 respondents don’t use a bus service, Too much traffic and there is clearly a lack of accessible Opinion was divided here: half the respondents information for residents. Approximately half felt their village suffered from too much traffic, the respondents using buses had to change half did not. North Road and Crown Road buses to reach their destination; and around featured heavily in the responses, from the 60 people had problems physically accessing feedback from Whitemoor; Peters Hill from the bus service. The majority of respondents Lanjeth and High Street residents, Currian

17 An overview of the Parish survey results

‘People use North Road as a short Road from Nanpean residents, Fore Street and cut, the traffic is very heavy and Creakavose from those in St Stephen, and the main road through Treviscoe. The same areas cars drive too fast. Too many were generally sited as being dangerous for both lorries come through the village. pedestrians and other motorists. I have to drive my children to school instead of walking them Traffic calming Households were fairly equally divided about because of the volume of traffic, the benefits of traffic calming measures: reduced and my younger child is scared speed limits and chicanes were seen as valuable, of the lorries as they come too but pedestrian crossings and road humps drew close.’ mixed reaction. Cars parking on the road ‘Traffic speeds through the Whitemoor has problems with traffic parking village despite having road humps on the road, as does Foxhole, Nanpean, and Treviscoe. There was mixed opinion about this in and special speed limits. Very St Stephen and in Lanjeth and High Street. large heavy lorries use the village roads often, finding difficulty in Residents in Whitemoor were concerned about heavy vehicles on their roads, particularly passing each other in the narrow Crown Road and North Road; yet it was roads. As there are no pavements surprising to note how many respondents this causes grave problems with skipped this question entirely: in St Stephen for parents and children accessing example, 308 skipped, and only 79 answered. the school and people walking to Employment the bus stop.’ Taken across the Parish, 37% of the 783 respondents are in full-time paid employment; 31% are retired; 12% are on part-time paid employment, and 18% not in paid employment. Nanpean and Treviscoe have the highest percentage of respondents in paid employment; St Stephen, Lanjeth and High Street and Foxhole have the highest percentage of retired respondents.

Advertising vacancies locally There was a great deal of support for the idea of advertising local vacancies on the Parish notice

18 continued

board, with the highest level of support coming ‘ In the light of the current from the residents of St Stephen. recession, local enterprises should Describing businesses in the Parish be encouraged. Small business Very few respondents identified they had a units and self-employment, to business in the Parish; 800 skipped the question. stimulate the economy.’ 7 respondents had a construction business, 6 were involved in service provision or care services, 5 were in retail, 5 in education and training, 3 in ‘We are desperate for employment tourism, 2 in distribution. Between them, these in the Parish and we must respondents employed approximately 120 people, encourage more commercial drawn from both within and from outside the Parish. premises.’

Only four employers within the Parish felt they could benefit from some form of additional support. The employers who responded were divided, but marginally in favour, of advertising ‘When you say affordable, it vacancies on the Parish notice-board. One needs to be affordable and for the wondered where the Parish notice-board was! locals. Usually when you hear Housing affordable they don’t stay low priced, and it is so unfair to the Providing more private housing youngsters as they can’t afford Of 715 respondents, 62% were against the them.’ provision of more private housing, although this varied from village to village. 71% in Coombe were opposed, 65% in Foxhole, and ‘Affordable housing should also in Lanjeth and High Street and Treviscoe, over be made available for retired 50% were in favour of more private housing. people who have had to downgrade Providing more affordable housing because of financial reasons, and In this instance, across the Parish as a whole, 40% I don’t mean “retirement felt that more affordable housing was needed, 22% complexes”. Therefore these disagreed, and 38% did not know. Respondents in Whitemoor were of mixed opinion; in Coombe properties should be built on the 40% felt more was needed, and 38 % did not flat, near bus services.’ know; in Foxhole 25% felt there was sufficient affordable housing, the rest of the 179 respondents were divided equally between agreeing a need for new homes, and not knowing. In Lanjeth

19 An overview of the Parish survey results

and High Street, only 12 of the 65 respondents with mental illness, and 9 with learning felt there was sufficient; as did 13 of the 68 difficulties, were all in need of some form of respondents in Nanpean. In St Stephen 60% of the special accommodation: in all over 50 people, 323 respondents saw a need for more affordable spread across the villages. homes; and opinion was equally divided amongst the 51 respondents in Treviscoe. Those unable to purchase their own home, resident in the Parish Finally, opinion was fairly evenly divided when These are the numbers at the time of the survey: respondents were asked if they would actually 10 in Whitemoor; 5 in Coombe; 20 in Foxhole; 8 approve of more affordable housing in their in Lanjeth and High Street; 8 in Nanpean; 43 in village, generally marginallly in favour; except St Stephen; 3 in Treviscoe. Only 36 respondents Coombe, where 60% of 52 respondents would overall are on the Homefinder or Home2Find not approve. register, however.

Locating affordable housing Health matters This section generated a wide range of responses: generally, the use of brown-field The survey provides a breakdown of the sites, and small infill sites, were proposed, GP practices used by respondents in each of rather than large developments. A number of the villages, and their general satisfaction respondents made the sensible suggestion that rating. Some residents requested more flexible any new homes need to be linked to access to opening hours, some had difficulty in getting an schools, shops, public transport. Damerell’s old appointment, and in obtaining prescriptions. site in Whitemoor was mentioned repeatedly, as was the Imerys works site. Access to healthcare The majority of respondents had no difficulty The majority of respondents were very clear accessing hospital services, after-care support, that the infrastructure could not cope with any doctor, physio, chiropodist, chiropractor, more houses. osteopath, counselling, or out-of-hours doctor.

Sheltered housing Access to dentists Asked about sufficiency, the majority of There was a very different reponse to accessing respondents in each village did not know if dentists however: 48% of 755 respondents there was sufficient sheltered housing; those had difficulties here. Accessing NHS dentists who answered ‘no’ outnumbered those who is a real issue for in excess of 300 people. This answered ‘yes’, so there appears to be a lack of would explain why the numbers of residents understanding about sheltered housing, but a not registered with a dentist are almost as many recognition of the need. as those registered with a private dentist, and marginally less than those registered with an The need for special accommodation NHS dentist. 19 elderly residents, 9 young people, 22 residents with physical disability, 11 with Respondents travel to Truro, Wadebridge,

20 continued

‘We need more information. Liskeard, St Austell, Helston, Fowey, Bodmin, We have three children with Camelford and Lostwithiel to access a dentist. Well over 400 respondents would use a mobile disabilities; we do not know of dental service: 37 in Whitemoor; 17 in Coombe; services in the Parish.’ 104 in Foxhole; 33 in Lanjeth and High Street; 51 in Nanpean; 190 in St Stephen; and 34 in ‘Are there appropriate services for Treviscoe. vulnerable groups? Don’t know. Access to information No idea.’ Whilst the majority of respondents had sufficient information on healthy eating, drug and alcohol issues, and sex education, the ‘My daughter is renting a very response was more divided when it came to inappropriate family home- 2 information about social workers, home help, bedrooms for five people. She has help for those with disabilities, loan of medical a number of health issues with no equipment, hospital care services, and exercise opportunities. support, assistance or advice.’ Using services ‘Old people could be helped in There was also a very positive response by those who would make use of a range of services, many ways, such as transport to particularly healthy eating, and exercise, but get to places.’ also for help for those with disabilities. There was also a general lack of awareness of the ‘I am a Support Officer and know services needed by vulnerable groups. about all the services but I do not Community facilities think that anyone outside the profession would find it easy to For young people access them.’ There was a strong demand for youth club facilities from St Stephen and Foxhole, and to a lesser extent Lanjeth and High Street; and a wish to see well-equipped recreation space in Foxhole and St Stephen particularly.

For the over-60’s Keep-fit classes, day trips, and shopping trips were high on the agenda for over 100 people, followed by musical evenings, rambling and walking clubs, and day-care facilities. Conversely, overall only 38 respondents were

21 An overview of the Parish survey results

willing to be involved in establishing a group in service poor, and 141 not knowing. their village, which suggests that respondents want to access facilities, but not help to organise Ambulance Service: here, the vast majority of them. respondents felt the service to be good; only 19 of 733 respondents felt the service to be poor; Pre-school activities and 110 did not have a view. 75% of respondents did not know if their village needed to improve pre-school activities, Paramedics: the same enthusiastic return for probably reflected in the age profile of the Paramedics: 487 of 724 first-respondents felt the respondents: if you don’t need to use the facility, service to be good, only 12 observing it to be a would you know about it? poor service.

Access to a village hall Air Ambulance: a very positive response for this Whitemoor: 68% said yes, they had access; service, but again a significant number, 150 of in Coombe 81% said yes; in Foxhole 40% did 714 respondents, not knowing. not know and 39% said yes; Lanjeth and High Street clearly had access (91% said yes); 41% Neighbourhood Watch of respondents in Nanpean did not know. In Nearly 90% of respondents overall were not St Stephen, 90% of the respondents were clear aware of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in that they had access; as were 87% of Treviscoe their area. In Whitemoor, this figure rose to respondents. 98.4% of respondents; in Coombe, 92.6%; 87% in Foxhole; 95.7% in Lanjeth and High Street; Public services 100% in Nanpean; 82% in St Stephen; and finally 90.7% in Treviscoe. This section of the survey sought opinion on the standard of public services by residents. Asked if they would be interested in setting up However it should be noted that it is not a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in their village, conceivable that such high percentages of the 89.7% of respondents in Whitemoor said no; 700+ respondents had first-hand experience. 80.4% in Coombe said no; 87% in Foxhole said no; 81.4% in Lanjeth and High Street said no; Fire and Rescue Service: the majority of the 88% in Nanpean and St Stephen said no; and respondents felt the service to be good; but 158 91% in Treviscoe said no. Overall however, 77 of 723 respondents did not know. people across the Parish would be interested in setting up such a scheme, representing group Police: the majority of respondents felt the Police sizes from 5 to 29 across the respective villages. service was good or at least reasonable, but 153 of 720 respondents felt it to be poor. Tackling crime

Police Community Support Officer: again the Vandalism: 578 people answered this question, majority felt that the PCSO service was good or and 249 skipped it. The average rating reasonable, with only 132 of 712 thinking the suggested half the respondents felt vandalism

22 continued

‘Our PCSO is excellent- and the was being tackled well. children are aware of his presence Theft: 489 people answered here, and 338 and support. He is often seen at skipped the question. On average, the school and around St Stephen.’ satisfaction rating was around 50%.

Drug-related crime: more people skipped this ‘I have never seen a PCSO in question than answered it: 420 to 407; and again Whitemoor.’ the satisfaction rating hovered around 50%.

‘How can you hope to prevent Under-age drinking: less than 50% of respondents felt this was being adequately tackled; 525 crime when reporting crime is answered, 302 skipped the question. so difficult? When all calls are routed away from the area, what Speeding: 628 respondents, with only 199 skipping the question. The satisfaction rating chance is there of anyone being dropped below the 40% level. apprehended?’ Other crimes: included dog-mess, fly-tipping, ‘The community must under- horses fouling on paths, and drink driving. stand that we all have a The Parish Council responsibility to ensure the village is safe, and that This section tackled an issue that taxes many parents take responsibility for Town and Parish Councils: making people the whereabouts and actions of more aware of and interested in their work. their children. More amenities Do you know your Parish Councillors ? in the village would also go a 764 residents responded, and 63 skipped the long way to help young people question. Of those that replied, 473 did not know who their Councillors were (62%); and re-focus their behaviour.’ 291 (38%) did. The most positive response came from St Stephen, where 52% of respondents knew who were their Parish Councillors; the worst response came from Foxhole, with only 23% knowing.

Do you know what they do? Overall, 73% of 753 respondents did not know: those in St Stephen and Lanjeth and High Street had the clearest understanding of the work of their Councillors, at 52% and 41% respectively.

23 Summary of the Parish traffic survey 2010

The 2010 Parish traffic survey looked in greater ‘Do you experience difficulty or feel unsafe depth at the traffic and transport issues raised because of traffic or lighting problems in the through the survey, and asked residents in each of village?’ the villages the following questions: Overall, 344 residents responded to this ‘Do you experience difficulty or feel unsafe question. Here are the majority responses, because of traffic or lighting problems in the where clearly some remedial action is required. village?’ Speeding: 87% of respondents thought this a ‘Please indicate where you feel these danger real issue: 90% of respondents in Lanjeth and spots are.’ High Street identified this problem as the most significant; 89% of respondents in Nanpean; ‘Do you feel that the problems are worse at any 91% in St Stephen; only 54% in Coombe; 82% particular time?’ in Foxhole, and 87% of the respondents in Whitemoor. ‘Would you like to see additional traffic- calming measures introduced?’ Volume of traffic: across the Parish as a whole, 65% of respondents thought this a real issue. ‘Do you feel that the new street lighting gives For respondents in Whitemoor, this issue was a better light?’ of real concern (86%); opinion was divided in Foxhole, 24 respondents thought it an issue, 15 ‘Do you feel more, or less, safe with the new did not; in Coombe it was not an issue at all; street lighting?’ 74% of respondents in Nanpean thought it an issue, as did 62% of respondents in Lanjeth and ‘Any other comments?’ High Street. 86% of respondents in Trevisoce thought it an issue.

Traffic noise:some general concerns expressed here, but it was only a marginal response, indicating it might be a concern to a number of residents but not to the majority.

Lorries through the village: for Whitemoor, this was a real issue for 100% of the respondents; 74% of respondents in St Stephen identified this problem, as did 69% in Foxhole, 97% in Treviscoe, and 79% in Nanpean.

Lack of pavements, no pedestrian crossings: a lack of pavements caused concern in Lanjeth and High Street, and for 81% of respondents in Whitemoor. Pedestrian crossing facilities were

24 wanted in Nanpean by 70% of respondents, 71% There was a rather mixed response to this of Whitemoor respondents, and by 81% of St question. For respondents in St Stephen, a Stephen respondents. pedestrian/zebra crossing was identified by 85% of respondents, plus more pavements, Traffic parking on pavementsis an issue in hedge-cutting to aid visibility, speed signs/ Whitemoor, St Stephen, Foxhole, and Treviscoe. indicators, and signs warning of children at play. 71% of respondents wanted to see a lowering of Overhanging vegetation on roads and pavements the speed limit, and 65% wanted to extend the Across the Parish, respondents were keen to see speed limited area. this dealt with, especially in Lanjeth and High Street, and Treviscoe, and to a lesser extent in For Coombe, the vast majority of respondents St Stephen. wanted no further action or initiatives. In Whitemoor, pavements and a pedestrian ‘Please indicate where you feel these danger crossing were highest on the agenda, and signs spots are.’ warning of children at play.

The traffic survey provided a detailed response, Lower speed limits, speed signs/indicators, and village by village, to this question, with a pedestrian crossing were high on the agenda respondents identifying individual streets for Foxhole respondents; and in Nanpean it was and roads where they believed the problems a similar story, with respondents also wanting to be. This information will prove valuable as yellow lines in the village. this problem is tackled, but clearly a degree of prioritisation will need to take place. Respondents in Treviscoe were divided about any extension of the speed limit area or ‘Do you feel that the problems are worse at any pedestrian crossings, but in agreement over a particular time?’ lowering of the speed limit, speed signs, and ‘children at play’ signs. The majority response was that nearly all the issues of traffic noise, volume of traffic, lorries For respondents in Lanjeth and High Street, a through the villages, and a lack of pedestrian lowering of the speed limit, cutting back hedges, facilities, were a real problem in the mornings. more pavements, and speed cameras, were the A lack of public lighting, and traffic parking on priorities. pavements, was also identified as problematic in the evenings. There were no great seasonal ‘Do you feel that the new street lighting gives variations across the Parish, although clearly a a better light? Do you feel more, or less, safe lack of decent street lighting and/or pavements with the new street lighting?’ will be of particular concern in the winter months, with less daylight hours. Across the Parish, 211 of 284 respondents thought the new lighting gives a better light; ‘Would you like to see additional traffic- and 168 of 220 respondents felt safer as a result. calming measures introduced?’

25 Our Vision for St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish

What does a Vision mean? ‘A place where people take pride in where and how they live. Preparing to write this Plan, and reviewing all the research, gave us a clear idea of what a lot of people in the community think about A community with good quality where they live, and pleasingly, the majority of housing for all those wishing to people are very happy here, and have little to complain about. But there are issues to address, live here. raised through the community survey, that need to be dealt with; and clear indications of A community that is safe: from how we can improve the lives of our residents. anti-social behaviour, speeding We also need to think about the future, and as Cornwall Council looks to devolve services to traffic, and the fear of crime. Town and Parish Councils, and to partnerships and networks of councils and community A community that values and groups, we need to be clear how we are going to respond. engages with all its residents.

So the starting point needs to be a clear A community that has access to statement of how we all want this Parish to be: quality local health care services. a Vision is a statement of our overall purpose, clear, concise, and recognised by everybody. It gives us all a common focus, and a future to A place where the Parish Council achieve. Realising the Vision takes a series of is at the heart of the community, building blocks, which may be called projects, objectives, goals: whatever the language you shaping and driving change’. choose to use. We have used ‘objectives’.

So this is our statement of intent- how we want our Parish to be. The statements are aspirational, but they are also achievable. We believe our role is to take the longer-term view about shaping the community we all want, and to ensure our day-to-day activities and duties build towards the achievement of our Vision.

We hope you agree.

26 ‘Why do we like living here? ‘The history of the area is I think it’s because the people fascinating.. and now we are are so welcoming, and there is seeing the villages starting to a sense of history to the Parish. regenerate at long last. I think We love it.’ that is what makes it such a good place to live: but it needs more ‘This area has seen a lot of investment if it is to shake off hardship, and has always risen some of the scars of the past.’ to meet the challenge. That’s what makes it such a strong community.’

27 Delivering the Vision: the Plan structure

Themes, and Objectives Objective 7 Improving access to public and community The Parish Plan is divided into a series of Themes, transport. closely reflecting the structure of the original survey. Within each Theme, we set out our Objectives: what it is we plan to tackle, to initiate, or pursue with Theme 3: other agencies and organisations. Here are the seven Themes that make up this Plan, and the Objectives The local economy within each Theme: Objective 8 Advertising local vacancies in the community. Theme 1: Objective 9 Our environment Promoting local services and trades: a Parish Directory. Objective 1 Caring for our environment. Objective 10 Encourage inward investment, new industry, Objective 2 and regeneration. Promoting and developing our network of footpaths, cycleways and bridleways. Theme 4: Objective 3 Developing a Parish map. Housing Objective 11 Objective 4 Undertake a definitive housing needs survey and Planting trees and woodland. plan future housing development. Objective 5 Objective 12 To encourage the use of renewable energy, and Work proactively with the planning authority reduce emissions. and developers to ensure community benefit. Theme 2: Objective 13 Addressing the need for special accommodation Traffic and transport in the Parish.

Objective 6 Objective 14 Improving pedestrian safety: managing traffic Village Design Statements: a longer-term in the villages. management plan for development in the villages.

28 Theme 5: Theme 7: Community health Local government

Objective 15 Objective 23 Establish a dental practice in the Parish. Increase awareness of and interest in the work of the Parish Council. Objective 16 Ensure proper access to information concerning Objective 24 the full spectrum of health services. Delivering services devolved from Cornwall Council in the Parish. Objective 17 Promote exercise and healthy eating. Objective 25 Achieve ‘Quality Parish Council’ status.

Theme 6: Objective 26 Promoting the Objectives in this Plan to Community well-being partner organisations. Objective 18 Improving recreational and social activities for our residents of all ages.

Objective 19 Co-ordinating access to, and events for, community halls in the Parish.

Objective 20 Promoting pre-school activities in the Parish.

Objective 21 Promote the Police initiative ‘Partners and Community Together’ in order to address anti- social behaviour.

Objective 22 Establishing Neighbourhood Watch in the villages.

29 Theme 1: Our environment

Objective 1 The Community Pride Officer would undertake the following duties: Caring for our environment ■ Maintain all public spaces such as playing The public consultation revealed a great deal of fields, recreation areas , footpaths, and verges frustration with the amount of litter, fly-tipping, free from litter, graffiti and dog-waste. and particularly dog-mess, that is left in the ■ Work collaboratively with Cornwall Council public realm for others to deal with. Dog mess street-cleaning team to identify problem particularly represents a real health hazard, areas, and ensure streets are litter and especially for young people. There was also a rubbish-free. fair amount of frustration with horse-riders who ■ Trim and maintain public green spaces, and left droppings in areas used by pedestrians. where applicable, oversee contracts for footpath trimming and monitor standards, At the same time other respondents were reporting on a regular basis to the Parish concerned with maintaining footpaths and Council. bridleways, trimming back hedges, and with the ■ Maintain public benches in good order. general maintenance of the public realm. ■ Keep bus-shelters clean, litter-free and regularly painted. As this Plan goes to print, Cornwall Council, ■ Maintain public signs and notices. through the Localism agenda and supported by ■ Oversee the condition of equipment in the present government’s Big Society approach, playsites, undertake permissible is looking at ways in which to devolve services maintenance, or organise maintenance, and to or agree active partnering arrangements with advise the Parish Clerk on related matters of Town and Parish Councils. This provides the health and safety. Parish Council with the opportunity, supported ■ Generally report to the Parish Council by devolved funding, to make a business case and where applicable to Cornwall Council or to Cornwall Council about the management of contractors, on overgrown verges and hedge- its environment, as one of a number of possible rows, potholes, fly-tipping, damage to aspects of devolved service delivery. This allows dog- and litter-bins; or where statutory or for greater control and management locally, contracted services are not being delivered. responding to local knowledge and need. Who should be involved? Recommendations Parish Council ■ The recommendation within this Objective Community Network Manager is that the Parish Council consider the benefits Serco representative of introducing a new or redefined role for Cornwall Council Transportation Waste and existing staff within the Parish, that has a Environment teamd considerations successful track record elsewhere: the role of the Community Pride Officer.

30 Objective 2 ■ Produce a leaflet guiding users around the Parish using these routes, and describing the Promoting and developing surface conditions, access issues for pushchair or wheelchair users and those with limited our network of footpaths, mobility. cycleways and bridleways ■ Seek funding in order to produce a number of interpretation boards at key points around the There is a growing emphasis on getting people Parish, giving users information about the out of their cars and walking or cycling to their flora, fauna, and historical features, of the destinations. It is also a significant element of area. Link to Objective 3. ■ the drive towards healthier living. In order Link to Objective 5 in promoting a reduction to meet such objectives, residents need to in car travel and reducing emissions. know a number of things: what footpaths and bridleways exist; where they go; their state of Who should be involved? repair; and access issues for those with small children, with prams and pushchairs, and for Parish Council the elderly or mobility restricted. Cornwall Council Regeneration staff for funding guidance Recommendations Residents Associations Ramblers Association ■ Map all the footpaths, bridleways, and Local landowners cycleways across the Parish. ■ Undertake a survey to understand the condition of each, and from that identify any remedial or development work that needs to be undertaken, particularly in the context of developing more cycle routes. ■ Work with local landowners over possible access and development issues. ■ Look at the needs of all possible user groups, paying particular attention to those using pushchairs, wheelchairs, and other mobility aids, and prepare an action plan that will make key routes accessible to all users: such as those connecting residential areas to schools, shops, and services. ■ Consult with specific user groups such as schools as to their needs. ■ Consider the potential for recreational routes to be developed, connecting areas that are of interest to residents and visitors.

31 Theme 1: Our environment continued

Objective 3 featuring each of the villages. ■ Therefore some form of management group Developing a Parish map would need to be established, to coordinate research, information gathering, and overall A large percentage of those responding to approach to layout and design. the survey welcomed the idea of producing a ■ Using community magazines and local village map. Outside of the day-to-day remit advertising, volunteers should be sought from of the Parish Council, this Objective is ideally each of the villages with appropriate expertise for volunteers from the community to address. and interests, to form the management group. There are a lot of points that would need to be ■ The management group would determine considered, and links to Objective 2, above, the overall approach to the information to explored, as any village or Parish-wide map be portrayed, and look for examples of best would need to make reference to footpaths, practice from other communities. bridleways and cycleways, but would not ■ This group would need to identify target contain the detail proposed by Objective 2. users. If, for example, tourists were a key Parish maps would have a wider potential target, then the maps should include audience, and, designed and promoted well, information on where to eat and drink, and on could contribute positively to the economy of accommodation in the area. the area. ■ This group would work with the Cornwall Council Regeneration Officer within the The first point to be resolved however would be Councils’ Localism service to look for any whether to produce a map for the whole Parish, opportunities to secure grant funding to assist or individual maps, for each village, that were with the professional production of the Parish connected graphically in some way. map. ■ Advice should be sought from Cornwall Parish or individual village maps would add Tourist Board about distribution and content. to the sense of community in each village, and to the wider Parish, and as there is a great deal Who should be involved? of industrial heritage and historical interest to promote, make a positive contribution to Parish Council as facilitator tourism income, through actively promoting Cornwall Council Regeneration staff printed copies of the map/s at tourist Community volunteers destinations in Cornwall, and establishing Visit Cornwall / Cornwall Tourist Board versions of the map/s on tourism websites.

Recommendations

■ It is clear from the survey that each village generally supported the idea of having its own village map, but in terms of project management, it would make more sense to produce a guide map for the whole Parish,

32 Objective 4 new areas of woodland? ■ If the intention is to encourage householders Planting trees and to plant more trees within their curtilege, woodland consideration must be given as to how the scheme will be promoted, funded, and Woods, and the trees that make up a vital managed. Householders will need advice component of them, are essential to life. They about locating new planting away from have a myriad of different benefits for both vulnerable sites, (e.g. over water and sewage wildlife and people. They stabilise the soil, pipes); elderly and disabled residents may not generate oxygen, store carbon, play host to a be able to undertake such work, and will require support. spectacular variety of wildlife, provide us with ■ raw materials and shelter, and inspire our If the intention is to plant on someone else’s imaginations and our creativity. Woods have land, there are a number of points to consider. ■ Is the land available for sale or for lease? an almost mystical quality, and they are a great ■ place for relaxation and recreation. A walk in Is the intention to encourage local farmers to diversify? the woods can give a feeling of peace and of ■ tranquility. Is it the intention to plant trees to increase the the biodiversity of the area? ■ Within the Parish, there is a strong desire by the Is it the intention to provide shelter for stock, community to see more trees planted, which to screen off a poor view, or to create a timber or wood fuel resource? was demonstrated by the responses in the ■ survey, but it is not clear from the survey if this Is it the intention to create a recreational woodland? is an aspiration for individuals, to plant within ■ their curtilege, or for the wider Parish, to The land, the type of soil and ground replenish our woodland. conditions, and the reasons for the planting, will impact on the type of planting possible. ■ In order to fulfill this wish, then, further Planning the access points if the intention is to bring in a contractor. consultation will be needed in order to answer ■ a number of questions, as below. Are there any issues to consider such as archaeological restrictions or existing habitat Recommendations and considerations designations? ■ The costs of consulting professional surveyors. ■ Further research is necessary if there is to be ■ Availability of grants and funding schemes. any scheme to plant trees and woodland. ■ Establish a community group including Who should be involved? representatives of local farmers/landowners, to explore the potential for delivering this Volunters drawn from the community, Objective and to manage the project in the facilitated by the Parish Council longer-term. Woodland Trust ■ Identify the scale and purpose of the planting: Forestry Commission is it purely on a domestic scale, or to create Natural England

33 Theme 1: Our environment continued

Objective 5 energy efficiency measures, the responses indicate that we need to give more To encourage the use of positive messages about options open to any householder, and provide a source of renewable energy, and information for those wishing to take some reduce emissions positive action to save energy and heat. ■ Support applications for planning permission Parish Councils can, if they choose, play a to install microgeneration devices wherever vital role in the drive to help mitigate climate reasonable to do so, and promote the use of change by actively promoting the use of microgeneration to new housing developers. ■ renewable energy. In 2006 the Climate Change As a statutory consultee on all planning and Sustainable Energy Act gave Parish and Town applications, promote the need for the highest Councils specific powers in relation to local standards of environmental rating for new energy saving measures, which will reduce the developments. ■ greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate Take measures to reduce the need for car change. travel, by ensuring wherever possible that schools, shops, workplaces are accessible by We can promote and support community foot, bicycle, or by public transport. ■ initiatives to reduce emissions, and promote Use our powers to provide cycle parks, bus microgeneration, (the production of heat and/ shelters, roadside seating, and community or electricity on a small scale from a low carbon buses, to actively encourage the use of source, such as solar, micro-wind, micro-hydro, environmentally-friendly travel: walking, heat pumps, biomass, micro combined heat and cycling, car-share schemes, and the use of power). We can review our own procedures public transport. ■ to make a positive contribution as community Ensure that people can walk safely to school, leaders, and, working in partnership with shops, playing spaces, and services as we the planning authority and service providers address Objective 2 Promoting and such as Cornwall Council, we can require that developing our network of footpaths, cycleways measures to save energy and reduce emissions and bridleways. ■ are at the forefront of all decision-making. We can make a small but immediate Clearly this will impact on decisions we may contribution by using low-energy lightbulbs take as consultees in the planning process, in any Parish Council premises or facility, for example, as we look at plans for housing and low-emission lighting along roads and growth in the future. footpaths.

Recommendations Who should be involved?

■ In considering the response to the survey The Parish Council in partnership with when residents were asked if they were Cornwall Council Environment Planning and interested in attending information sessions Economy Directorate about renewable energy, insulation, and Cornwall Council Green Team Cornwall Energy Plus

34 Theme 2: Traffic and transport

Objective 6 and Police interventions in terms of traffic management, speed checks, placing of Improving pedestrian cameras. ■ Target locations should include areas where safety: managing traffic in parents and children walk to school; where the villages elderly residents live; and where people access local services. ■ Throughout the survey results, respondents If the process identifies particular transport were concerned about pedestrian safety, largely operators as causing problems for pedestrians, from the large volume of traffic, particularly then the Parish Council, or the partnership, lorries, using the roads in the Parish. The survey should contact a senior representative of the also provides a very useful record of where company or companies concerned and meet members of the community see the problem to seek an appropriate outcome. ■ as most severe. Addressing this problem In seeking to manage traffic more effectively will not be a short-term fix, but will need the in problematic areas, attention will need to cooperation of a number of agencies working in be paid to traffic parked on the roadside, and partnership. an evaluation made as to whether it is an aid to slowing through-traffic, or an impediment Recommendations to pedestrian safety.

■ Firstly, that the Parish Council or a small Who should be involved? group of residents working on behalf of the Parish Council, make a more detailed analysis Parish Council of the information contained in the survey, Community Network Manager prioritising locations, times, and specific Partners and Community Together (PACT) issues. Cornwall Council Highways ■ The next step will be for the Parish Council Devon and Cornwall Traffic Police to ask for a formal meeting with senior representatives of Cornwall Council Highways and the Police. This may be achieved by direct approach; through the Community Network utilising the services of the Community Network Manager; or through the PACT (Partners and Community Together) process. ■ The outcome should be a survey of traffic movement and speed in target locations in order to gather formal evidence for Highways improvement works in terms of improved management of traffic, the provision of pavements, crossings, and islands/refuges;

35 Theme 2: Traffic and transport continued

Objective 7 reviewed against current services... ■ and that the results of that exercise are Improving access to public brought back to the Parish Council by the service provider/s with a view to agreeing and community transport improvements that can be made to services. ■ That the Parish Council ask the service Public transport providers to respond proactively to the perceived -or real- lack of access to This Objective is a simple one to define: do information about bus routes, times, etc, and residents have the right public transport agree with the Parish Council how that might services going to the right places at the right be improved. times? The survey provides clear information ■ That the local community transport scheme is from those that responded about their preferred reviewed in terms of meeting need, public destinations, their needs in terms of frequency, awareness, and economic viability, and that and access to information about services. Public any support needed is identified and service providers can also understand from the addressed through the Cornwall Council survey that there is a good demand for their Rural Transport Project. services, but routes and times may usefully be ■ Cornwall Council Rural Transport Project adjusted to improve the service. Officers work with communities to develop ways of improving local people’s access to Community transport employment, services and facilities. They help to support and develop community transport There is a lack of wider awareness of any in the area. They also seek to improve the community bus scheme operating in the availability of public transport information, to Parish. If you consider the summary of survey promote the integration of transport services, responses in this Plan, it is clear that if there is and to target the needs of isolated rural areas. a community bus scheme in operation in any They offer advice and information on all or all of the villages, only a small percentage aspects of rural transport, including how to of residents are aware of it, and it could be that identify community needs and what kind of these are very specific users of the scheme. solutions may work in any given locality. There is no community transport scheme They can advise on potential sources of funds, for this Parish shown on Cornwall Councils’ help with researching and developing website, so other residents searching for transport ideas, and providing access to information may not have easy access to details specialist organisations such as the of any existing provision. Community Transport Association. Recommendations Who should be involved? ■ That the information about bus services Parish Council provided by the survey is extracted and made Community Network Manager as facilitator available to the bus service providers, with a Bus service providers request from the Parish Council that it is Rural Transport Project Officer

36 Theme 3: The local economy

Objective 8 Objective 9 Advertising local vacancies Promoting local services in the community and trades: a Parish

Whilst economic regeneration and inward Directory investment are the remit of Cornwall Council rather than the Parish Council or community Local shops and businesses need to be groups, we can be proactive in helping supported in a pro-active and practical way. ourselves at a local level. This is one instance, Local shops are at the social heart of our whereby vacancies that arise within businesses villages, and their long-term survival can be and services in the Parish may be advertised fragile. We also want to see local people in the Parish as a matter of course. The issue spending money locally, on local goods and is about persuading local employers to do so, services, in order to support our local economy. and providing suitable vehicles for carrying the information. For many people wanting to access trades or services, the only source of information is Recommendations recommendation from friends and neighbours, or from searching Yellow Pages. This Objective ■ Identify all the businesses and organisations proposes the organisation and publication of that are based in the Parish, and also those a Parish Directory. The Directory would list that are recognised as employers of Parish all local businesses and services, in order to residents, outside the Parish boundaries. help ensure their longer-term viability and to ■ At the same time, prepare a list of all the invest, as a community, in our local economy. -preferably free- opportunities to advertise The Directory can also be used to provide other vacancies in the Parish, such as community useful contacts such as those identified below. newsletters, Parish Council notice-boards and website. Recommendations ■ Promote to each of the businesses and ■ organisations identified the availability of Publish a Parish Directory that provides advertising spaces, and the value of using listings of all the shops, services, local opportunities to attract applicants. tradespersons, and businesses in the Parish. ■ Typical local services listings could include: Who should be involved? -Shops and shop services, and opening times -Post offices and their range of services The Parish Council, supported by community -Builders, plumbers, plasterers, carpenters, volunteers decorators and electricians -Garage services and opening hours -Farmers supplies -Handyman services -Garden maintenance/tree surgeons

37 The work of St Stephen-in-Brannel Theme 3: The local economy continued Parish Council

-Licensed child-minding services organise printing and circulation. -Cleaning services ■ The Parish Council website could include an -Home delivery: milkmen, grocers, butchers electronic version of the Directory, and links -Office services such as photocopying to local businesses, services, and attractions. -Taxis -Public houses and restaurants Who should be involved? -Tourist and holiday attractions -Camping and caravanning sites Community volunteers -Residential and nursing homes Parish Council ■ In addition to listing businesses and Community Network Manager services, the Parish Directory might also Local businesses and services include: Cornwall Works -Parish Council meeting dates and venues -Parish Councillor contacts -Cornwall Councillor contacts -Cornwall Council contact details -Emergency services contact numbers -Doctors, dentists, and hospitals -Other health services such as acupuncture, therapies -Social Services -Schools and nurseries -Pre-school playgroups -Clubs and associations -Residents’ associations -Community hall contacts -Charities at work in the Parish -Churches and places of worship -Mobile or rural library details -Recycling and waste collection details -Volunteer services, e.g. hospital car -Dial-a-ride service ■ In terms of meeting costs of printing and distribution, advertising space could be offered, however there may be opportunities to seek grant funding, which should be explored with the Cornwall Council Regeneration Officer supporting the Community Network. ■ The project would also require volunteers to gather and collate the information, and

38 Objective 10 The task therefore is to identify areas within the Parish that need enhancement of the Encourage inward environment, removing the scars left by former china clay works; and to consider how the investment, new industry, siting of new industry will bring investment and regeneration into the Parish to support the environmental regeneration needed, in addition to offering The profile of the Parish in previous pages new employment opportunities. tells how closely linked was the development of the villages to the growth of the china clay Recommendations industry; the nature of the villages, and the ■ landscape in which they sit, bear testimony to The Parish Council to discuss with the the impact of the china clay industry over many elected members of Cornwall Council, ideas years. Now, the area still hosts that industry, but for encouraging new employers, new a far more mobile workforce means that many investment, into the area; and for those residents move out of the Parish to their place elected members to accept the brief to work of work. with officers in the Environment, Planning and Economy Directorate and the Planning We also know, from the community survey, and Regeneration Service to explore how few employers there are in the area, with opportunities to bring regeneration and the obvious exception of Imerys, and with investment to the Parish. ■ the advent of new working methodologies, The Parish Council will be able to identify opportunities to relocate new industries into the brownfield sites, and other sites suitable for area need to be explored. development; and to identify where the Parish most needs investment in the At the same time, the physical evidence of regeneration and enhancement of the the impact of the china clay industry is to environment. ■ be seen all over the Parish and beyond. The In order to attract new industries, high-speed way the landscape has changed has been a broadband will play a key role, and this will direct consequence of that industry: whilst need to be addressed as a priority. ■ some aspects can be argued to have enhanced The Parish Council should also support the area, or at the least helped determine planning applications for business starter its character, there is much restoration and units, live-work units, and home office regeneration work to be tackled. Regeneration extensions where appropriate. is long overdue, and any Parish Plan would be failing if it did not set out to encourage new Who should be involved? investment into the area, new job opportunities for the residents and the next generation of Parish Council young people who may choose to live and Elected members of Cornwall Council work in the area, and at the same time seek to Cornwall Council Environment, Planning enhance areas of the local environment. and Economy Directorate; and Planning and Regeneration Service

39 Theme 4: Housing

Objective 11 Council, undertakes a housing needs survey and longer-term projection, that is recognised as Undertake a definitive definitive by Cornwall Council as the planning housing needs survey authority. and plan future housing The Parish Council can then look at longer- term development of the Parish, identifying development locations they determine as suitable for further development of a specific type and number, The development of new homes, particularly take local issues into account such as capacity social housing and affordable homes, can be of local schools, areas of the Parish that would an emotive subject. In every community there benefit from additional residents in terms of are those that recognise the need to house local supporting the local economy; and generally families, those that are opposed to any further ‘own’ the process rather than be in a position of development, and those that whilst supporting responding to individual applications. the need for local homes for local families, are concerned about the allocation of social and Recommendations affordable homes to those from outside the Parish, or having no connection with it. ■ That the Parish Council approach Cornwall Council Affordable Housing team in the first The Parish Council is a statutory and significant instance to discuss the most appropriate way consultee for any planning application, and new to undertake a housing needs survey, and to housing development, whether for social rented project future housing needs numbers. property, affordable housing, intermediate ■ It may be appropriate then to work with a affordable housing, or full market housing, is recognised approved developer to sponsor a significant responsibility. Such decisions or partly sponsor the survey, as there are costs should not be made in isolation of longer- involved in printing and distribution. term planning, and should be informed by a ■ Ideally the analysis of the survey results knowledge of the affordable housing targets for would be undertaken by Cornwall Council; Cornwall Council, and by clear knowledge of and shared with the Parish Council. genuine local housing need. ■ The Parish Council would then be in an informed position to undertake Objective 12, Cultural changes at Cornwall Council, partly commenting on future housing applications promoted by the Big Society agenda nationally in the context of the needs of local families, and the Localism agenda here in Cornwall, longer-term population-growth projections, mean that Parish Councils and community and a pre-determined plan for new housing groups can take an increasing responsibility for development in the Parish. their future, and planning housing development is a key element. Who should be involved?

This Objective therefore proposes that the Parish Council Parish Council, in collaboration with Cornwall Cornwall Council Affordable Housing team

40 Objective 12 and at the same time brokers with developers benefits for the community, perhaps as Work proactively with infrastructure benefits, or as other contributions the planning authority to local priorities and initiatives. and developers to ensure Recommendations community benefit ■ Identify sites for potential new development. ■ Consider the impact on existing services, This Objective is a logical extension of Objective infrastructure and amenities when identifying 11. Through the Community Network process, new sites: the capacity of the local schools; Parish Councillors will be aware of Cornwall how new development might help sustain Councils’ emerging Town Frameworks, and the local shops /post office / businesses; implications for rural parishes in the develop- identifying sites within walking distance of ment of new homes. The results of the proposed services and amenities. housing needs survey will enable the Parish ■ Liaise with landowners to confirm or Council to be proactive in identifying, based otherwise the availability of target sites. on local knowledge, where development sites ■ Liaise with the Cornwall Council Planning should be considered, particularly with a view Development team to evaluate the potential to building stronger and more sustainable of the land for development: the team will communities. advise on issues such as local sewage capacity that may impact on the potential of the site At the same time the Parish Council can gain for development. from new initiatives at Cornwall Council ■ Work with the Cornwall Council Planning where there is a recognition that in order to Development team to develop a case for meet affordable housing targets, developers mixed housing developments. may need to be given the incentive of building ■ Negotiate with developers the community full market cost housing alongside affordable benefit agreed by the Parish Council, using housing, in a more flexible approach to current the Objectives within this Plan as a possible guidance on the percentage of affordable homes starting point by identifying those that on new sites. Such mixed development also require some form of additional investment. helps build stronger communities, as it avoids social labelling that can unfortunately occur in Who should be involved? large developments of specific housing types. Parish Council This Objective then proposes that the Parish Cornwall Council Affordable Housing team Council, having clear ownership of the numbers Cornwall Council Planning Development team of affordable homes that need to be built over time, and having identified suitable sites for housing development, seeks to negotiate with the planning authority about where, and on what scale, new development may take place;

41 Theme 4: Housing continued

Objective 13 services and a warden who provides specialist support to all of the tenants. This Addressing the need for type of housing is generally intended for the elderly (aged 60 or over) but younger people special accommodation in with a disability may sometimes be accepted. the Parish ■ Very sheltered housing: accommodation for frail older people with all the features of The survey informs us that over 50 people sheltered housing, but with a greater level of in the Parish, at the time of the survey, had care and support. This could include staff on special accommodation needs: 19 elderly duty 24 hours each day to provide support, residents, 9 young people, 22 residents with such as provision of assisted bathing and physical disability, 11 with mental illness, dining. ■ and 9 with learning difficulties. This number Supported accommodation: intended for will not have included family or resident people with a learning/physical disability, carers. Whilst addressing this matter is not medical requirement or young people aged the direct responsibility of the Parish Council, between 16 and 24 years old who may require as part of the overall ownership of the future support with their tenancy. development of the villages, addressing the special housing needs of some residents should Recommendations form part of that wider ambition. ■ Information should be updated, via the Special needs housing is a general term cover- housing needs survey, to ensure that there is ing housing built with particular tenant groups a clear understanding of numbers of residents in mind. Usually it involves either specially in need of appropriate accommodation, and built or adapted housing, for example housing details of need on a case-by-case basis. ■ for older or disabled people, or houses linked Seek professional advice about the specific to some support facility for adults with learning housing and adaptation requirements of any difficulties. residents in need of such accommodation. ■ Work collaboratively with Cornwall Council There are lots of different names that are used Supported Housing Strategy Manager to see to describe housing which is designed for a how such needs can be addressed. ■ particular client group: As a matter of process, scrutinise any proposed new developments in terms of ■ Amenity housing: flats or houses with special meeting the needs of these members of the modifications for people with particular community. needs, but not supported by a warden. For example, amenity housing for older people Who should be involved? could include bathroom handrails and non- slip flooring. Parish Council ■ Sheltered housing: groups of self-contained Cornwall Council Supported Housing Strategy homes linked to emergency alarm call Manager

42 Theme 4: Housing continued

Objective 14 communities have a unique appreciation and under- standing of their own place, and a VDS is based on Village Design Statements: this knowledge. It describes the qualities that residents value in their village and in their a longer-term management surroundings’. does a VDS cover? plan for development in the ■ A VDS is researched and written by local villages people, and reflects the representative views of a community by involving a wide cross- As further demands are made on our section of residents in its production. communities to build new affordable housing ■ It describes the distinctive character of a developments, we need to start exercising village and its surrounding countryside. longer-term control over the appearance of our ■ It shows how character can be identified at villages, ensuring that we preserve the best three levels: aspects of our villages, and set out clear - the landscape setting of the village, standards and our expectations for those - the shape of the settlement, wishing to develop property within the - the nature of the buildings themselves. Parish. The way in which we can manage this ■ A VDS sets down design principles based on is through the production of Village Design the distinctive local character. Statements. ■ It demonstrates how local character and identity can be protected and enhanced in any Village Design Statements give us the new development; control to manage new developments: they are ■ is compatible with the statutory planning an advisory document produced by the village system and should be accepted as community, to influence the operation of the supplementary planning guidance (and statutory planning system, and to ensure new thereby influence developers and decisions on development works in harmony with its planning applications); setting and makes a positive contribution to the ■ is relevant to all forms and scale of new village. They are of value to residents, development, developers, and planners, and it is important ■ and is about managing change in the village, that the Parish Council and the statutory not preventing it. planning authority members and officers engage in the process. Recommendations

The following is an extract from the Natural ■ Bring together the work of Parish Councillors, England website: Cornwall Councillors and volunteer members of the community to create Village Design ‘Many people feel that they have no say over what Statements. development takes place in their community; but ■ A possible starting point would be to allocate Village Design Statements (VDSs) offer a to each Parish Councillor a ‘Planning Zone’. constructive solution to this dilemma. Local Each Councillor then is responsible for two

43 Theme 4: Housing continued

things: starting the process of preparing a VDS by making notes about key features of his or her zone, referring to distinctive character, landscape setting, nature of the buildings, materials used, and other key points; and providing a briefing to the Parish Council on any application that falls within his or her zone, when that application is considered at a Parish Council planning committee meeting. ■ This working draft can then be developed with interested members of the community to collectively form a draft VDS for each village; and ultimately combined with others to provide coverage of the Parish. ■ Advice and support should be sought from Cornwall Council planning officers. ■ The Parish Council will resolve to adopt the final document, and work with developers and the planning authority to ensure that the VDS is influential in planning any new development. ■ With a large portfolio of seven villages, the Parish Council might consider piloting this project in one village to start.

Who should be involved?

Parish Council Community Volunteers Cornwall Council planning officers

Actions and considerations

Who

44 Theme 4: Housing continued Theme 5: Community health

Objective 15 If the better solution were to provide a mobile service, then different options would need to Establish a dental practice be explored. There are a number of different schemes in operation, including portable units in the Parish used by qualified staff to undertake home visits, and mobile units that may locate in an area This Objective is aspirational: every effort can for fixed periods and dates. This latter scheme be made to provide dental practitioners with works with the use of a ready-to-go mobile evidence of demand, and to negotiate support unit which can be situated wherever necessary. in order to make any venture successful, but Typical mobile units offer much of what a ultimately the outcome is not in the hands of the normal dental clinic will offer, with a waiting Parish Council or the community. room, reception, several treatment rooms, disabled toilet, staff room and fully trained The community survey provides ample NHS dentists and nurses. The mobile unit evidence of the need to establish some form of would be situated in an accessible place, and dental practice in the Parish, particularly but offer patients a freephone telephone number to not uniquely serving NHS patients. Currently, book appointments which will be confirmed by residents travel widely to access dental health e-mail or text. Additionally, the unit could be practices, and the suggestion coming through made available for a number of weeks in one from the survey is that a mobile facility working particular area before returning on at least a around the villages in the Parish, perhaps monthly basis. Typical services can include: also serving other Parishes, would receive a high level of use. Such schemes are in effect ■ Emergency treatment elsewhere in the country. A mobile scheme can ■ Consultation, examination and oral health also support those who have extreme mobility assessment problems, who may suffer from panic attacks; ■ Teeth removal (extractions) but can also be very useful to schools, and care ■ Fillings homes, in hard-to-reach areas where public ■ New denture provision transport is either not available, or cannot easily ■ Old denture refurbishment / reconstruction meet the needs of residents in providing access ■ Crownwork to dentistry. ■ Bridgework ■ Special hygiene care ■ Gum treatments There are two routes to explore: the first is to ■ Cosmetic dentistry determine whether a fixed or a mobile facility is the best solution to Parish needs. Given that Recommendations the Parish Council can win the interest of an existing practice to expand into the area, a This Objective will require the following: suitable property for conversion or a new-build site would need to be found, and help from ■ The commitment of a group of volunteers to the Parish Council in supporting any planning lead on this Objective. application would be essential. ■ A detailed, accurate evaluation of numbers

45 Theme 5: Community health continued

who would use such a service, building on Objective 16 the work of the original plan survey; and an understanding of their dentistry needs. Ensure proper access to ■ Dialogue with schools and care homes serving the Parish to determine how well or information concerning otherwise their needs are met. the full spectrum of health ■ Dialogue with target dental practices to explore their willingness to establish a services practice in the Parish; and... ■ agreement over what sort of facility would be This Objective is concerned with ensuring that considered: premises-based or mobile. residents in the Parish, particularly those that ■ If premises-based, support the process are vulnerable, at risk, carers, or those generally proactively by recommending premises and/ not able to help themselves, have to-hand or sites, and supporting the planning process. information concerning the health services they ■ If mobile, researching types of mobile may need; putting the right information in an dentistry available; easily-accessible format in the hands of those ■ identifying which Primary Care Trusts that need it. support such schemes, and looking for best practice; ■ Doctors ■ consideration of possible locations for siting ■ Dentists mobile units. ■ Opticians ■ Consideration of partnerships with neighbour ■ Out-of-hours services/ Serco Health Parishes to ensure sufficient volume of ■ Emergency services patients. ■ Accident and emergency hospital facilities ■ The development of a business case to put to target practices. The Cornwall Council website has a Community Contacts directory that provides links to a wide Who should be involved? range of organisations, including those that support: Community volunteers Parish Council ■ Adult care and support The Community Network ■ Befriending schemes Target dental practice/s ■ Bereavement ■ Blind or visually impaired organisations ■ Cancer services ■ Carers organisations ■ Community transport contacts ■ Crime, domestic violence, abuse and personal safety ■ Counselling ■ Deaf or impaired hearing ■ Dementia and dementia carers

46 Theme 5: Community health continued

■ Drugs and alcohol Objective 17 ■ Helplines ■ HIV and AIDS Promote exercise and ■ Learning disabilities ■ Mental health healthy eating ■ Physical disabilities This Objective is concerned with putting people ■ NHS and other health organisations in touch with advice and support concerning exercise and healthy eating. Any internet search The issue here is that whilst the information is will throw up a number of helpful sites, such as readily available via the internet, not everyone the Food Standards Agency’s ‘Eatwell’ site, and has internet access, and, even if they did, in Cornwall Council Healthy Eating site, but there is an emergency may not turn to the internet for an opportunity here to address a number of information. The problem then to address is to social issues that also arose through the survey. provide information at a level suitable for all Many residents wanted opportunities to residents in the Parish, (and at the same time socialise that were organised for them. This giving computer-literate residents access to the could be linked to a programme that will full range of links). encourage healthy lifestyles, in a social context. Recommendations Recommendations

■ Link this Objective to the production of a ■ Explore with the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Parish Directory (Objective 9): include NHS Community Health Development Team information based on the list above, with opportunities to introduce a ‘Weight Matters’ addresses for local services, together with programme that also meets the socialising phone numbers and website links, in a agenda for community groups. The overall clearly-laid-out manner. aim of the Community Health Development ■ Consider how the needs of sight-impaired Team is ‘to stimulate and support local residents may be met, and any organisations communities in actions which will reduce health that could offer support in meeting the needs of this group. inequalities, improve quality of life and quality of opportunity for communities’. The Team offer Who should be involved? a Small Grants Scheme to give communities the opportunity to be able to try out some- Parish Council thing new that would not otherwise be Cornwall Council Social Care team available to them without the funding. This Community Network Manager grant will be available in 2011, with NHS applications open from April-June.

Who should be involved?

Parish Council NHS Community Health Development Team

47 Theme 6: Community well-being

Objective 18 ■ As part of any debate about new planning applications for housing development, work Improving recreational in partnership with the developer and the planning authority to ensure easy access to and social activities for our green space, or the provision of green space residents of all ages for recreation purposes, is part of the condition of planning approval. ■ Messages from the community survey were For adults, particularly the elderly, those very clear. Young people wanted a youth club, without personal transport, or those that recreation ground, and play areas equipped would benefit from more social integration, for a variety of sports, including trampolining, again an initial audit of what is currently skate-boarding, football and netball. They available across the Parish, as a whole, is the also wanted at the other end of the spectrum a starting point. It may be that there is sufficient village carnival, fete, and fireworks night. provision, but it is not widely publicised. ■ Older members of the community were Plans for providing excursions to venues, or interested in keep fit, day trips, shopping trips, shopping trips for adults, will need to be musical evenings, and carers groups, amongst linked to any work undertaken for Objective 7 other requests. Numerically, there is good Improving access to public and community evidence of demand; but not of people willing transport. In terms of providing transport to be actually involved in organising groups. links between youth venues within and external to the Parish, consideration will Recommendations need to be given to CRB checks for any adults involved. ■ ■ Undertake an audit of all Parish recreational, Voluntary organisations should be contacted play, and green spaces, and the equipment to understand what it is they already offer, at each, including the condition of all items of and can offer, the community. ■ equipment. Inevitably any such Objective will require ■ Undertake a user survey amongst young volunteer effort, and the Parish Council can people about the equipment they have, how act as a facilitator here. ■ well they use it, what might take its place. On Link to Objective 19. a village-by-village basis, this would require local volunteer support to complete. Who should be involved? ■ Plan both across the Parish, and by location, the improvements and changes to recreational Parish Council and play equipment that would be desirable. Community volunteers including young people ■ Work with the Cornwall Council Cornwall Council Regeneration Officer Regeneration Officer to seek grant support for Cornwall Council Public Spaces Officer new equipment. Cornwall Council Fire and Community Safety: ■ Should play space or new green space be an Supporting Community Values team issue that arises from the audit, then approach local landowners to see what land may be made available, and under what terms.

48 Objective 19 Objective 20 Co-ordinating access to, Promoting pre-school and events for, community activities in the Parish halls in the Parish Only a very small percentage of respondents to the survey were aware of the range and Village halls, church and chapel halls and availability of pre-school activities in the Parish. other ‘community centres’ provide a vital local What is not shown by the survey is the scale resource for the villages and parishes they serve. of that provision, whether those activities are A wide range of activities take place in these thriving, and if they are sustainable in the buildings and provide a mechanism for personal longer term. Pre-school activities are an essential contact where others may have been lost (e.g. part of building and sustaining a strong shop, school, post office). In this respect they community. Apart from the benefits of early play their part in helping communities retain engagement and socialisation for very young their sense of community identity. children, they provide a valuable resource for mothers/carers, particularly in some situations Evidence suggests that village and community where they may otherwise be isolated. halls need a clearly-defined user base, and a well-publicised range of activities, that avoid Recommendations competition between halls. Where that happens, co-existing halls very often fail to meet running ■ Establish what provision exists. costs. ■ Liaison meetings with providers to establish whether the provision is at risk in any way, Recommendations from funding, client base, or accommodation perspectives. ■ This Objective addresses feedback from the ■ Determine a plan of action dependent on the survey asking for community activities, by outcome of the research. The level of support promoting the co-ordination of events across can vary from maximising opportunities to the community halls that are in the wider promote the activities to help with seeking Parish, and publishing a Parish-wide calendar grant aid, premises, etc. of events. ■ Options to support the Parish-wide provision can include links to the Parish Council Who should be involved? website, and space in the community news- letter. The Parish Directory should list details. Each village or community hall will be run by a committee of volunteers. They should be Who should be involved? canvassed to explore the potential for working collaboratively. The Parish Council may wish Parish Council to lead on this. Cornwall Rural Community Pre-school activity and playgroup providers Council can offer an advice service. Cornwall Council Early Years Service

49 Theme 6: Community well-being continued

Objective 21 Community Together’ (PACT) would provide an opportunity for the community, working Promote the Police through the Parish Council as facilitator, to identify community policing priorities, and to initiative ‘Partners and also agree what other actions could be taken, Community Together’ in and by whom, to address anti-social behaviour in the wider sense. Examples from other rural order to address anti-social communities have included commissioned field-work by youth workers working on a behaviour regular basis with groups of young people, whether it is in venues or just where they Throughout the survey, there is a very mixed ‘hang around’; interventions by the Fire and response about the effectiveness and visibility Rescue Service Supporting Community Values of the Police, both Neighbourhood Beat Officer team; actions by residents associations to take and Police Community Support Officer (PCSO). a positive approach to addressing ASB; more For some respondents, they appear to do an focussed and timely police work, and support excellent job, and examples are cited of good by the Parish Council. practice; for others, they are never visible. Collectively, there was a very mixed response In one particular rural community, under-age to the visibility and effectiveness of community motorcyclists and ‘boy racers’ have been taken policing. Amongst all the feedback, there were off the streets and given a field to race in by a particular requests for patrols in the evenings member of the community, who also provided and at weekends, and for tackling anti-social them with access to workshops to maintain behaviour. their cars. The Fire and Rescue Service have picked up on this through the PACT process, There are many cases of anti-social behaviour and organised sessions where the same young identified in the survey, in comments sections, drivers use Fire and Rescue equipment to ‘cut and a number of respondents have also and shut’ cars in a supervised environment; and identified that much of the ASB could be tackled are cut out of crashed cars to simulate the real by more parents taking responsibility for the experience of being in a crash. Young drivers behaviour of their children, or by community are also exposed to film showing the results action. A fair number of respondents felt that of traffic accidents, as part of an education giving young people alternative activities, objective. The same community support officer and a place to meet, would help to resolve the from the Fire and Rescue Service also attends perceived problem of young people ‘hanging games nights in the village hall organised by about’, while others reported that previous residents, in order to further interact with young efforts had not been successful. Amongst other people. complaints, ‘boy racers’, general speeding, fly tipping, and under-age alcohol consumption In the same rural community described above, featured regularly. other action to address ASB as a result of the PACT process includes re-designing part of The Police-instigated initiative ‘Partners and

50 Theme 6: Community well-being continued

one village streetscape and re-thinking traffic ■ PACT meetings are able to agree where management in order to prevent ‘boy-racers’ additional funding may be needed, and from speeding, and gathering in their cars, support by Cornwall Council regeneration whilst encouraging a wider cross-section of the staff will identify sources of potential grants, community to meet and socialise, by introducing and assist with the application process. ‘people priority’ areas, seating, planting, ■ Addressing anti-social behaviour is not only building road restrictions, and removing lay- about management by the authorities; it bys. Work is also being undertaken as a result of is also about offering positive alternatives, the PACT process to re-design the playing field; particularly to young people, so they and to provide a permanent venue for young understand they are valued by their people to meet, possibly through a developer community. contribution arising out of plans to identify new ■ From PACT, Police Neighbourhood Beat sites for housing in the vicinity. Officers can identify community priorities for policing or activities in support of the Recommendations PACT agenda, such as informal attendance at youth disco evenings that might be organised ■ Identify all the various agencies who can via PACT. contribute to addressing issues of anti-social ■ The Parish Council is also in an informed behaviour in all its forms, so that the Parish position to agree policing priorities with the Council or a delegated group can gain a clear Neighbourhood Beat Team, receive monthly understanding of what work is already being reports, and monitor achievement of locally- delivered in the wider Parish, or that would agreed targets. be available to the Parish. The Community ■ Agree a schedule of review meetings for Network Manager will be able to assist in this. PACT members. ■ Hold well-advertised public meetings to understand the concerns of the community, Who should be involved? ensuring that the event is not simply negative, but identifies individuals or groups willing to Parish Council give support to a PACT process. Cornwall Councillors ■ Ensure consultation also includes ‘hard to Community Network Manager reach’ youth groups, to understand their Police Neighbourhood Beat team issues and needs, and possible causes of anti- Youth Service social behaviour. This element may well need Fire and Rescue Supporting Community Values to be contracted-out to youth work specialists. team ■ Representatives of each organisation- Youth Residents associations Service, Police, Fire and Rescue Service, Parish Community volunteers Council, residents associations, volunteers, Representatives from secondary school/s local schools, set up an initial PACT meeting. Neighbourhood Watch ■ At this meeting the nature of the contribution Representatives of community centres in the that each can make is identified, and a Parish schedule of activities and a timeline, agreed.

51 Theme 6: Community well-being continued

Objective 22 influence policing priorities through the PACT process described in Objective 21 above. Establishing Neighbourhood Actions such as fitting more secure door locks and window locks in vulnerable homes, or Watch in the villages lobbying the local authority to improve street lighting or step up the security of a communal A local Neighbourhood Watch is a group of area, are within the remit of a Neighbourhood like-minded neighbours getting together to help Watch scheme. reduce crime and make their community safer. Recommendations The aims of Neighbourhood Watch are: ■ To prevent crime by improving security, and ■ There is strong evidence in the survey to increasing vigilance. suggest that in each village, volunteers would ■ To assist the Police in detecting crime by come forward to establish a Neighbourhood encouraging prompt reporting of criminal or Watch scheme. Use the Parish Council web- suspicious activity. site, newsletter, and notice boards, and notice- ■ To reduce undue fear of crime by providing boards in shops and other public venues, to accurate information about risks and by encourage attendance at an inaugural Parish- promoting a sense of security and community wide meeting, with the Neighbourhood Beat spirit. Manager, Police Community Support Officer ■ To improve communication between the (PCSO), or Crime Prevention Co-ordinator in Police and the community. attendance, to lead on the meeting. ■ Volunteers should be sought on a village-by- How Neighbourhood Watch works village basis to then take the lead in setting up Schemes are run by their members and led by a a local group. resident volunteer co-ordinator, whose job it is ■ Advice and guidance on how to set about this to get people working together and make sure is to be found on neighbourhoodwatch.net. things get done. The co-ordinator liaises with the Police and acts as a voice for the community. Who should be involved? Some schemes also have a committee that meets regularly to plan which problems to target and what actions to take. Schemes are supported Parish Council as facilitator by the Police, the local authority and their local Neighbourhood Beat Manager Neighbourhood Watch associations. Police Community Support Officer Crime Prevention Office Neighbourhood Watch schemes vary in size: Community volunteers they can be large, covering most of the houses on an estate, or they may involve just a few houses. Local problems such as combating anti- social behaviour, vandalism and graffiti are well within the scope of a well-organised neighbour- hood watch scheme, which will also seek to

52 Theme 7: Local government

Objective 23 Parish Council may wish to consider: ■ Open evenings in each village. Increase awareness of and ■ Rotating the venue for Parish Council meetings between the villages, given access to interest in the work of the suitable premises. Parish Council ■ Using the launch of the Parish Plan to engage more members of the community in the work In the survey, residents were asked if they of the Parish Council, and as a way of ‘signing knew their Parish Councillors, and understood up’ residents to work alongside the Parish what they did. As the results showed, 473 Council and the Steering Group in delivering of 764 respondents (62%) did not know who aspects of this Plan. ■ their elected members were; and 549 of 753 Developing the community newsletter, giving respondents (73%) did not know what they did. reports of Parish Council meetings in an informal manner, (rather than minutes), and Only a limited number of respondents skipped featuring issues that the Parish Council will this section of the survey. The most positive be addressing in forthcoming meetings. Apply response came from St Stephen, where 52% the same process to the Parish website. ■ of respondents knew who were their Parish Using the Parish Council website as a Councillors; and the worst response came from community facility, promoting events, social Foxhole, with only 23% knowing. gatherings, sporting fixtures, as well as Parish Council matters. ■ Overall, of 701 respondents, some 241 people Using the vehicle of ‘single issue’ debates to would be interested in a session that explained spark interest: such as housing development, the roles of Councillors; although in total 460 or community facilities; published in advance respondents were not interested, and another in the newsletter and on the website. 126 people skipped the question, the positive response here should be noted and acted upon. Who should be involved?

Recommendations Parish Council

■ The numbers of people interested in knowing more suggest a village-by-village approach could be adopted: -Whitemoor: 15 interested people -Coombe: 20 people -Foxhole 65 people -Lanjeth and High Street: 29 people -Nanpean: 25 people -St Stephen: 101 people -Treviscoe: 15 people ■ There are a number of approaches that the

53 Theme 7: Local government continued

Objective 24 Parish, before undertaking any agreement.

Delivering services However, the changes mean that the Parish Council may wish to look at the range of devolved from Cornwall services currently delivered by Cornwall Council in the Parish Council, and any property or other assets owned by Cornwall Council based in the Parish, and As a result of a number of inter-related factors, consider what opportunities are presented, if Cornwall Council will seek to encourage any, by the initiative. The Community Network Town and Parish Councils to take on greater Manager will be able to provide the Parish responsibility for delivering services locally, Council with information needed to make any and at the same time to defer decision- decision. making on local issues to this first tier of local government. The current Big Society agenda, Recommendations the governments’ Localism Bill, and Cornwall ■ Councils’ Localism agenda all provide the Request the Community Network Manager rationale, and the motive, for a re-focusing of to organise a Community Network briefing service delivery and decision-making to Town on the issues described above, with invited and Parish Councils, and to other community officers from Cornwall Council providing groups. details and case-studies. ■ Prepare for the briefing by requesting details Part of the initiative means that Town and of the services that are delivered in the Parish, Parish Councils can put to Cornwall Council the cost of delivering those services; and a business case to take over ownership, or details of any Cornwall Council assets in the management, of Cornwall Council assets, and/ Parish, with details of their function, costs, or to deliver specific services. The advantage to and any other relevant information. ■ the Parish Council is one of greater control over At Parish Council level, determine if the the management of assets and services within members wish to consider the potential of the Parish; the ability to match local knowledge devolved services; and if so, organise a single- to local need, as well as potential new revenue item agenda to consider options. ■ streams. Examples may be the management of Considerations will include the impact on car parks, or a leisure facility. Cornwall Council precept; increased administration costs; will be able to advise on the revenue it would identifying benefits for the community; require from a Cornwall Council car park, for potential revenue streams. example, and the Town or Parish Council would need to determine if there were opportunities Who should be involved? for further revenue, or other benefits to the community such as a different charging pattern Parish Council to support local shops and services more. They Community Network Manager would also need to consider the additional administration costs, and the value to the wider

54 Objective 25 ■ working with its partners, acts as an information point for local services. Achieve ‘Quality Parish (From the Parish Council website:) Council’ status Quality Status is an award that St Stephen-in- Brannel Parish Council is currently working ‘The Quality Parish and Town Council Scheme towards and hopes to achieve in 2011. was launched in 2003. The aim of the Scheme is to provide benchmark minimum standards for Parish In order to achieve Quality Status, Parish and and Town Councils. The Scheme is supported by six Town Councils must demonstrate that they have national Stakeholders: the Commission for Rural reached the standard required by passing Communities; the Department for Communities and several tests. These are: Local Government; the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; the Local ■ Electoral Mandate - Councils will be required Government Association; the National Association to show that at least two-thirds of councillors of Local Councils; and the Society of Local Council were elected. ‘Elected’ can mean either at a Clerks’. contested or uncontested election. However, (From the Parish Council website.) they must have stood for election. ■ Qualifications of the Clerk. The following extract from ‘The Quality Town ■ Council meetings - Councils will be required and Parish Council Scheme’ published by the to publish draft minutes of meetings within Office of the Deputy Prime Minister describes two months of it taking place and make them the characteristics of a Quality Parish Council, available for inspection by any elector in the and makes clear the benefits to the community, parish, as a minimum. and to our partners. ■ Communication and Community Engage- ment - Councils will be required to have a A Quality Parish Council: website which provides a list of Council ■ is representative of, and actively engages, all parts members and officers, details of how they can of its community, providing vision, identity and a be contacted and which also provides access sense of belonging; to the annual report. ■ is effectively and properly managed; ■ Councils will also be required to have an ■ articulates the needs and wishes of its community; e-mail address that is publicly available. ■ upholds high standards of conduct; ■ Councils now have the option of either ■ is committed to work in partnership with principal producing their own newsletter or local authorities and other public service agencies; contributing to a community newsletter. The ■ in proportion to its size and skills, delivers local information that is required to be included services on behalf of principal local authorities in the newsletter has not changed nor has the when this represents the best deal for the local requirement that the newsletter is made community; readily available at public sites. ■ works closely with voluntary groups in its ■ A Community Engagement Strategy has been community; provides leadership to the community formulated; and through its work on Parish plans; and

55 Theme 7: Local government continued

■ Councils provide a regular weblog on their public. website about Council activity or encourage ■ Accounts prepared to statutory requirements. the community to talk to them through an ■ A Code of Conduct. online forum or through surveys on the web- ■ A Community Engagement Strategy. site. ■ Training strategy and budget. ■ Annual Report ■ Accounts Recommendations ■ Code of Conduct - Councils will be required to have formally adopted Section 12 (2) of the ■ The Council establishes a Working Group Code of Conduct which concerns the to guide the Parish Council through the prejudicial interests of Councillors and public process.nsiderations participation. ■ Look at the body of evidence required in ■ Promoting local democracy and citizenship order to achieve Quality Parish Council - Councils will be required to demonstrate status, and: that they work proactively to support local ■ consider carefully and budget for the costs democracy and citizenship. associated with meeting and maintaining the ■ Terms and conditions - Councils with a paid standards required and recommend a budget clerk will be required to provide evidence that to the Council. they have adopted (as a minimum) the ■ Establish a timetable to review existing NALC/SLCC Terms and Conditions agree- practices against the evidence requirements, ment and provide evidence in the form of a and implement change where it is needed. statement that they have issued all paid ■ Identify the administrative, clerical, and members of staff with a contract of financial support needed in order to achieve employment. the CiLCA qualification. ■ Training - Councils will be required to provide a training ‘Statement of Intent’ which Who should be involved? shows that the Council has identified key areas of training need for both staff and Parish Council members. ■ The electoral mandate: at least two-thirds of the Councillors must be elected. ■ Clerk’s qualifications must be either a Certificate in Local Policy or a Certificate in Local Council Administration (CiLCA). ■ Evidence of meetings held in the 12 months prior to application. ■ The need for a website and e-mail address, and a newsletter published at least four times per year delivered to all households. ■ An annual report published by 30 June each year and available for inspection by the

56 Objective 26 community involvement is essential, so we need to promote the Plan to the public, to residents Promoting the Objectives associations, and other community groups, in this Plan to partner through the Plan launch described on the following pages. organisations Recommendations Much of the success of this Plan will be dependent on the recognition of the Plan by ■ To consider the way in which the Parish Plan partner organisations, so that they refer to the is promoted to our partners: to consider the Plan when making decisions about any aspect possibility of a launch event for partner of their function or service within our Parish, or organisations. that impact on our Parish. Who should be involved? Below we have identified organisations that we regard as significant partners in the delivery Parish Council of the Objectives within this Plan; of those, Parish Plan Steering Group members Cornwall Council is the most significant of our partners, and influential in the delivery Partner organisations and people of services and policy development affecting our Parish. Therefore each of the Directorates Cornwall Council elected members has been identifed, together with a list of key Cornwall Council Portfolio holders responsibilities, many of which map against Cornwall Council Corporate Directorates: Objectives within this Plan. Chief Executive’s Department We will also promote the Plan to our Cornwall Communications Council elected members, so that the Plan Partnerships becomes an essential part of their agenda as they Strategic intelligence represent our community. Localism including Community Networks, Town and Parish Council relations On the following pages we describe our Local partnership working proposals for delivering the Plan, which include Human resources and organisational development launch events, and targeted meetings with key partner organisations. One of the most effective Children, Schools & Families Directorate routes to dialogue with Cornwall Council will Nursery places for 3/4 year olds be through the Community Network. That Maintained schools and special schools Network is also ideally placed to engage with Childrens social care services the Police, with healthcare providers, and of Home to school transport course with neighbouring parishes. School improvement Family support and information services We have also said elsewhere in this Plan that Education

57 Theme 7: Local government continued

Youth Cornwall including youth services Residents associations Youth offending service Local community groups Residential care centres Housing providers Devon and Cornwall Police Adult Care & Support Directorate NHS Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, Cornwall Rural Community Council mental health, sensory loss Public transport providers People with HIV/AIDS or drug/alcohol problems National Trust Funding places in residential care homes, care at Natural England home, short break or respite care, equipment or home Sustrans adaptations

Communities Directorate Registration services Housing, includes strategic housing, council housing Customer first, contact centres and One-Stop Shops Cultural services: leisure, libraries, creative services, adult education

Environment, Planning & Economy Directorate Planning and regeneration Economic development Transportation and highways Waste Environment Regeneration

Resources Directorate Electoral services Legal and democratic services Council’s property portfolio management Council procurement Finance

Fire and Rescue and Public Protection Fire and rescue Environmental health Trading standards and licensing Emergency management Community safety

58 Delivering the Parish Plan

For any Parish Plan, the work in producing example, the Environment, Planning and Economy the Plan itself is only the start. The hard part is Directorate of Cornwall Council has identified implementing the Plan: deciding on priorities, five thematic priorities, as follows: roles and responsibilities, enlisting the support of other members of the community, and ■ Creating better places to live involving other organisations and agencies ■ Enabling sustainable economic prosperity whose work impacts on our community. ■ Creating a Green Cornwall ■ Creating connectivity and strategic So a key part of the process for implementing infrastructure the Parish Plan will be to identify those ■ Delivering excellent services organisations, groups, businesses, associations, and individuals who could have a particular These priorities clearly have a direct relevance interest in the contents of this Plan, or a to, and impact on, what we are seeking to particular role to play in implementation, and achieve locally; so we will need to understand to engage them in delivery. This is described in how Cornwall Council plans to deliver these Objective 26. priorities in the context of our Parish, and work with them. Our elected Cornwall Council The Parish Plan is a major commitment for the members, working through the Community Parish Council. We believe it is ambitious, but Network, will be well placed to influence this achievable in partnership with our community, process. and with organisations with whom we work. In order to prioritise our work, we will also need to Launching the Parish Plan to the community understand the priorities of our partners. In order to launch the Parish Plan to the community we propose a community launch Launching the Parish Plan event, where practicable, in each of the villages. We will invite members of the public, Launching to key organisations and community groups, local businesses, and stakeholders: our partners residents’ associations, to attend the launch. We will give members of the community an Working with the Parish Council, the Steering opportunity to ‘sign up’ to help deliver, or Group will organise a launch event for those advise on the delivery of, specific Objectives partner agencies and organisations that we in which they have a professional or personal believe should be involved in the delivery of interest. aspects of the Plan, and who should be made aware of the Plan as it impacts on and informs their own work. Monitoring implementation

This launch event should then be followed The Parish Plan Steering Group propose that the up with individual meetings with partners following steps be taken to maintain delivery to discuss how their objectives and priorities momentum, and to monitor implementation marry against those of the Parish Plan. As an progress:

59 Delivering the Parish Plan continued

■ A continuing role for the Parish Plan Steering the Plan becomes a regular update on the Group: the Parish Plan Steering Group would Parish Council website, following the review welcome an opportunity to work with the meetings: and an editorial feature is prepared Parish Council in helping to deliver aspects of for each edition of the community newsletter. the Parish Plan; and would meet on a quarterly basis to support, review and monitor progress, and plan delivery. ■ Meetings of the Steering Group to be supported by the Parish Clerk’s office. Minutes of the meetings to be published. ■ Prioritising Objectives: that the Parish Council, supported by the Parish Plan Steering Group, undertake a prioritisation exercise to determine which Objectives should be tackled in which order, and over what timescale. Cornwall Council elected members and the Community Network Manager may wish to collaborate in this process. ■ That the Chair of the Parish Plan Steering Group or her/his nominee attends the Parish Council meeting on a regular basis, and as an agenda item, the Parish Council updates on progress. ■ That the Parish Council hold liaison meetings with Cornwall Council elected members, to agree which Objectives should be led by the elected Cornwall Council member; and to review progress and agree actions. ■ That the Community Network Manager provides reports at agreed intervals on progress being made through that group, on agreed Objectives. ■ That the Cornwall Council elected member/s should work with the appropriate Corporate Director to consider how delivery of corporate objectives for Cornwall can be mapped against and support the delivery of the Objectives described in this Plan. ■ Progress against the Parish Plan to feature in the annual review held by the Parish Council, and in the Chairman’s Annual Report. ■ Progress on delivering the Objectives within

60 St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Council At the heart of delivering the Parish Plan; leading on implementation and co-ordination; working with:

Parish Plan Steering Community Network External organisations Group and members of Working with Cornwall and agencies the community Council elected members Influencing the priorities and Parish Plan Steering Group, to influence the work of actions of partner organisations, together with volunteer Cornwall Council. Mapping including: members of the community, Parish Objectives into the Residents associations supporting implementation Community Network Local community groups by leading on specific programme Housing providers Objectives Devon and Cornwall Police NHS Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Public transport providers

Cornwall Council Delivering Objectives from the Parish Plan through the work of the Directorates: Chief Executive’s Department Children, Schools & Families Directorate Adult Care & Support Directorate Communities Directorate Environment, Planning & Economy Directorate Fire and Rescue, and Public Protection

61 Contacts

Parish Plan Steering Committee members Parish Councillors

Chairman Kim Wonnacott Anne Marie Sincock Chairman of the Council 01726 824323 Sylvia Batchelor Woodmans House, 68 Terras Rd, St Stephen Paul Batchelor St Austell PL26 7RX Catherine Cracknell Dave Hatton Roy Allsopp Andrew Newton Vice-Chairman Steve Oakley 01726 824980 Martin Singleton 17 Homer Water Park, St Stephen, St Austell Alison Vercoe PL26 7PL John Yeo Cindy Allsopp St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Council 01726 824980 17 Homer Water Park, St Stephen, St Austell Officers PL26 7PL

David Coles 01726 824812 Parish Clerk 43 Fore Street, St Stephen, St Austell, PL26 7NS Mrs Verna Hedley MILCM 01726 823003 Catherine Cracknell [email protected] 01726 824021 www.ststepheninbrannel.org.uk 9 Dabryn Way, St Stephen, St Austell, PL26 7PF Office 2, Brannel Room, 22 Fore St, St Stephen St Austell PL26 7NN Gill Danning 01726 821169 Deputy Clerk 14 Terras Rd, St Stephen, St Austell, PL26 7NX Linda Ranger 01726 823003 Barry Davey [email protected] 01726 822095 The Old Rectory, Rectory Rd, St Stephen St Austell PL26 7RJ

Louise Faulds 01726 821986 157 Creakavose Park, St Stephen, St Austell PL26 7ND

62 Don Hallett Cornwall Councillors 01726 822648 Trelawney, Terras, St Stephen PL26 7RX Des Curnow 01726 824215 Dave Hatton [email protected] 01726 823284 St Stephen electoral division (Coombe, Foxhole, Escana, Crown Rd, Whitemoor, St Austell Lanjeth and High Street, Nanpean, St Stephen) PL26 7XH Fred Greenslade Dave Neville 01726 822789 01726 821362 [email protected] 11 Churchtown Rd, St Stephen, St Austell, St Dennis electoral division (Treviscoe) PL26 7NJ John Wood Steve Oakley 01726 891393 01726 821061 [email protected] 56 Trethosa Rd, St Stephen, St Austell PL26 7PZ Roche electoral division (Whitemoor)

John Smith Community Network Manager 01726 821678 5 Little Stark Close, St Stephen, St Austell Sarah Sims PL26 7PR 01208 893302 [email protected] Keith Wonnacott 01726 824323 Community Regeneration Officer Woodmans House, 68 Terras Rd, St Stephen St Austell PL26 7RX Emma Ball 01872 224259 Linda Yates [email protected] 01726 821935 Saif Sareea, Chapel Rd, Foxhole, PL26 7UG Cornwall Council One-Stop Shop Brannel Room, 22 Fore St, St Stephen St Austell PL26 7NN

Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Neighbourhood Beat Team PC Steve Humphries PCSO Brian Harris 07525 406877 Brannel Room, 22 Fore St, St Stephen St Austell PL26 7NN

63 Coombe Foxhole Lanjeth & High Street Nanpean St Stephen Treviscoe Whitemoor

St Stephen-in-Brannel Parish Plan: supported by Cornwall Rural Community Council; written and designed by Ray Tovey [email protected]. The Parish Plan has been supported by Defra funding, through the Local Area Agreement process.

supporting cornish communities