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Cotton ’s Taxis & Mini Coach Service Est over 45 Yrs Tel: Saltash July 2018 - Issue 316 Established 25 years 84 84 84 Licensed P.C.V. & Hackney Carriage Operators New Spotlight on Cornwall Council in SE Cornwall… Cinema, Working Together to Make Cornwall Safer ornwall Fire, Rescue and Community Safety Service, administered by Cornwall Council, are the Cafe and proud winners of a national award as Fire and Rescue Service of the Year 2018. “The scale and Cvolume of our work to help vulnerable people, and to keep communities safe is a credit to the Pier are professionalism and dedication of our staff”, said Paul Walker, Chief Fire Officer, who himself was awarded the Queens Fire Service medal in the New Year’s Honours List earlier this year. “I’m very proud among to be part of Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, who are my second family and who all work hard for our local communities,” he continued. Plans for There are 31 community people willing to take on the part of the dedicated Saltash fire stations throughout role and help in an emergency crew and helping to keep our Cornwall. Two of these are - currently over 80% of our community safe, go to Waterside crewed day and night, five are community fire stations in Cornwall Council’s website mbitious plans for the day-crewed, and the Cornwall are currently trying (www.cornwall.gov.uk) and future of Saltash’s remainder, including the to recruit on-call firefighters. search for ‘on-call firefighter’ Ahistoric waterside station in Saltash, are crewed Saltash is no exception, and for more information, or call area, which could include a by retained firefighters who needs ‘ordinary women and the Service’s Resourcing new cinema, theatre, a new live near to their fire station men to do an extraordinary Team on 01872 323800. pier, and a cafe/bar with and can arrive there within job’. The crew at Saltash The crew at Saltash outside seating area were on five minutes of a call being responded to 177 incidents in Community Fire Station are display at the Livewire youth received. These on-call the year 2016/17. Of these, 62 also active in promoting fire club over the regatta weekend firefighters do an incredible were false alarms but our safety, and will carry out free and drew mixed comments. job, but there is a shortage of firefighters were called to a home fire safety checks and The plans, put forward by wide range of incidents such fit smoke alarms free of the coastal community team, as floods, fires, road traffic charge. Saltash has a unique Saltash, in co-operation with collisions and chemical spills. resource developed by the Saltash Neighbourhood If you’re interested in being a Cornwall Fire and Rescue plan steering group, include Service called Early Learning four alternatives. The first Fire Safety (elfs), which is a option is simply to leave the fun-filled box with tools to area as it is. educate children between two The others include and five years old about reducing the present town pier safety. It can be borrowed to a groyn and creating a new "$%0,%"/1.% "0%$!(+$,3/5,,./ free of charge by nurseries, and longer pier opposite the ,.#'%/5,+/%.2"0,.(%/)"//%-)"#%*%+0 pre-schools and ‘Union Inn’. 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One firefighters by giving your suggestion is for a cinema / feedback and taking the theatre in front of the Integrated Risk Management Livewire club and a cafe " "$ $% Engagement Survey, either restaurant alongside with flats " online by visiting on the site of the former # $ www.cornwall.gov.uk or by ‘Wheatsheaf Inn’. % $ " ringing 0300 1234 100 and Alternatively the Livewire $ asking for a paper copy. The site would be redeveloped survey closes at the end of "! with a cinema/theatre on that July. site and a new Livewire built " alongside adjacent to the new G " apartment block which would have underground parking. G ‘The survey of all Saltash residents conducted in 2015 G " found that after the railway station the Waterside was the G single most popular area # $ voted for improvement in the town’, visitors to the ! $ $ exhibition of ‘Thoughts and Ideas for the Waterside’. " ""# " Saltash resident’s views are $ % !$ still invited and the Plan 4 )&',$)&$%,&$" Saltash web site gives details on other opportunities to see $$ '!#$&(&(!(' and comment upon the )!(,$$ - various proposals. $" “The Waterside " " development plans are a $ "%% private consortium initiative ! $& and not, the Town Council "&,&+$&$("!$" seeks to emphasise, a council +++'!('$'&*&$) See Regatta article/captions on page 4/5 and 8 based initiative’ Saltash and District Observer - July 2018 - Page 2 News from Saltash Town Council Town Messenger Konsel an dre Essa Working for the People of Saltash Education Department Telephone: 0300 1234 101 Localising Services ... A Sea Change for Saltash Email: altash is already well first tier authority has a to improve them, offer what Negotiations are currently Cornwall Council officers to upon the attraction of the [email protected] into its programme of statutory duty to provide the townspeople wanted, and underway between Saltash ensure that either Cornwall water frontage. S‘devolution’, taking on certain services, which get value for money for local and Cornwall Council raise its standards to the level The Council is united in its Education Welfare: an increasing number of include social services, ratepayers. concerning green spaces, that Saltash require or these approach to taking over Telephone: 0300 1234 101 powers and responsibilities education, transport/ Among the first such grass cutting and verge services come back under services which it believes [email protected] from Truro based Cornwall highways, waste disposal and services to come back into maintenance. Currently Saltash’s control. will be better run locally for Council and seeking to housing. local management were Cormac is contracted to do At the same time Saltash is local residents. Councillors Housing Department ensure that local services are Cornwall therefore chose public toilets. Longstone work to standards specified looking to take on assets on are aware that negotiations Telephone: 0300 1234 161 locally run for the benefit of to examine all other services Park, Belle Vue, Alexandra by Cornwall Council. our historic Waterfront. and important decisions will Email: [email protected] the local community. that it provides and decide Square and Waterside are all Saltash Councillors do not Those who have been to the take time and ask that The concept of devolution whether it was viable to currently being cleaned and consider these standards Waterside recently should residents will give them this Social Services Department emerged in 2014 when the maintain them and if not maintained by the Town locally acceptable – so the have already noted a vast time as well as their support newly formed Cornwall whether to hand them back to Council’s locally employed town council is embarking on improvement since the in what our elected Telephone: 0300 1234 101 Council realised that its the parishes such as Saltash staff. a programme to cost out for town’s own Waterfront representatives believe will Email: [email protected] funding levels were not or close them down. The Town Council’s next taking these services in house Wardens assumed the role of be an absolute sea change for sufficient to maintain all of It was on this basis that in target is local open spaces. and is currently working with maintaining and building Saltash. Social Services Department the services it inherited from 2014 Saltash Town Council Caradon and the five other embarked on a programme to Saltash North Saltash South Saltash East Saltash West Mayor: Telephone: 0300 1234 131 district councils. take back certain services Your [email protected] John Brady Sheila Lennox-Boyd Richard Bickford G l o r i a C h a l le n John Brady Cornwall Council, as a from Cornwall Council so as Town j.brady@ s.lennox-boyd@ r.bickford@ g.challen@ Highways Department Toilet saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk Deputy Mayor: Telephone: 0300 1234 222 Council Gloria Challen Email: Vandalism is Chris Cook Averil Pinckney Mike Parker Jean Dent customerrelations@cormacllimited c.cook@ a.pinckney@ m.parker@ j.dent@ Town Clerk: .co.uk Costing saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk Ray Lane T: 844846 Transport Department s.lennox- Council Tax Bill Phillips Steve Thorn Julie Rance Steve Miller E: enquiries@ (Schools Transport) [email protected] b.phillips@ s.thorn@ j.rance@ s.miller@ saltash.gov.uk Telephone: 0300 1234 101 Payers saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk (Bus Pass) Telephone: 0300 Councillors 1234 222 ince Saltash’s public Garry Taylor Casey Warrington Pete Samuels David Yates telephone Email: [email protected] toilets have come [email protected] g.taylor@ c.warrington@ p.samuels@ d.yates@ numbers can Sunder the Town be obtained at Council’s management its saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk saltash.gov.uk the guildhall.