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“For many villages and hamlets the choice is between becoming ever more exclusive enclaves of the wealthy and retired, or building the affordable homes to enable people who work in these communities to continue to live in them.

In many cases just a handful of well designed homes, kept affordable in perpetuity for local people, will make all the difference to the sustainability of the community and its services.

At the same time, we need to make sure that there are better opportunities for the people who live in these small rural communities to find quality work, and build successful businesses.

Otherwise we will see more and more villages turn into commuter dormitories, at the cost of fewer local jobs, declining local services, and the loss of genuine community life.”

From the Living Working Countryside , The Taylor Review of Rural Economy and Affordable Housing 2008

BODMIN MOOR

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Index

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Map of Bodmin Moor Parishes 2

Index 3

Aims of the St Breward Parish Plan 4

Acknowledgements 4

Introduction 5

Parish Appraisal 5 Parish plan 5 Rural Communities in the second half of the 20th century 5, 6 St Breward: its Sense of Place 6, 7 The Parish Appraisal and Outcomes 8 Achievements of the Parish Appraisal have been mixed 8, 9 The Parish Plan 10

Asking the Community if they wanted a Parish Plan: Blue Peter Evening 10, 11 Consultation Event 11 Analysing the results 12

Outcomes

Housing 13

Children and Young People 14, 15

Environment 16, 17

Employment 18, 19

Transport and Roads 20

Health 21

Adults 22

Religion 23

Village Services 24, 25

Conclusions 25

Copy of letter to parishioners with results of Parish Appraisal: Appendix A (Pages 1 – 10) Data collected from Storyboards: Appendix B (Page 1) Data collected from Consultation Event Appendix C (Pages 1-2)

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Aims of the St Breward Parish Plan

• To help local people influence the development of their own Parish • To strengthen the sense of community • To inform and guide the Parish Council • To provide guidance to Planning Authorities and Services

• To promote the future prosperity of St Breward

Acknowledgements

St Breward Parish Council wishes to thank North Cornwall District Council and Cornwall Rural Community Council for financial and ongoing support in developing this Plan and East Cornwall CVS for guidance and support.

St Breward Parish Council would like to thank all those who have contributed to the production of our Parish Plan. The generous commitment of so many volunteers working on the steering group, the Parish Appraisal, and our public events – demonstrates the strength of the community of St Breward.

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Introduction

Rural communities in Britain at the beginning of the 21st century face enormous pressures to survive in an increasingly centralised and marginalised society. They are constrained by tight planning laws, lack of access to decent jobs and to vital services. Big changes are needed to breathe new life and prosperity into rural communities like St Breward.

St Breward Parish Council has been aware of these issues and has been struggling to make headway through ever-changing government strategies for rural communities. A Parish Appraisal was seen as a way forward.

Parish Appraisal A Parish Appraisal begun in February 2000, was the only mechanism then available to tie in District and County Council‟s support for our community aspirations. The Parish Appraisal was a survey carried out, by and for the local community, whose aim was to identify local problems, needs, threats, strengths, and opportunities. It was seen as a means of taking stock of the community and creating a sound foundation of awareness and understanding on which to base future community action.

Parish Plan Parish Plans were launched in the Rural White Paper 2000 and set a framework for communities to plan their own futures. Their purpose is to highlight key services, set out problems that need to be tackled and show how valued local features and the area's distinctive character might be protected. They may embrace social, economic and environmental issues and must be consistent with local planning policy and strategic partnerships.

Your Parish Council, mindful of the limited response to their Parish Appraisal, took some persuading that a Parish Plan would be more worthwhile, but encouraged by North Cornwall District Council and Cornwall Rural Community Council, who were actively supporting Parish Plans, they were persuaded to ask the community if they needed a Parish Plan.

To understand why parishes need a plan we need to consider the pressures that have changed the face of rural Britain since WW2.

Rural communities in the second half of the 20th Century The necessary massive investment in the post-war reconstruction of bombed cities and their factories, coupled with the government centralisation policies and industry‟s global strategy, plus the increasing speed of new technologies put immense pressures on the rural communities of Britain.

Rural communities lost local businesses, jobs, workers and services to the urban centres and from the 1960‟s rural areas such as Cornwall experienced an increasing internal migration from the wealthier urban areas. Most households moving into rural England are families with young children and people aged from about 44 to 64, with both groups making significant demands on public services and housing.

This means that there are fewer young people living and working in the community; more unemployed and retired, needing extra support from essential services; more urban-owned holiday or second homes depleting the available local housing stock and a decline in many of the locally available amenities and services that are essential to the future sustainability and development of our

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parishes. Rural poverty and isolation are increasing and many of the policies which aimed to improve quality, efficiency and choice to the people failed in rural areas because they were designed by urban dwellers for urban communities.

Government now accepts that local communities understand better what the problems are at local level and what needs to be done to resolve them and that the needs of a community are different between communities. It places a massive importance on the role of people who are in a position of democratic accountability, but it also makes it very clear that there is a responsibility to get people and their communities involved in that process of identifying priorities and the kind of issues that they want to see resolved. A practical way to involve the whole community in this decision-making is by the preparation of a Parish Plan.

St Breward: its Sense of Place St Breward is a Cornish Parish high up on the western edge of Bodmin Moor with some of the highest ground in Cornwall. Roughtor (1312ft, 400m) and Brown Willy (1,378ft, 420m), the two highest peaks, form the eastern edge of the parish and the western edge slopes down off the moor to the banks of the River Camel. Most of its 9,430 acres (3,817 hectares) is unenclosed moorland providing rough grazing, amongst the furze, heather and bracken for sheep, ponies and cattle. Trees and small, isolated, ancient farms exist in the less exposed areas. The De Lank River, a tributary of the river Camel, rises

and passes through the parish.

The main settlement of the parish, St Breward village descends in a line from the exposed Parish Church of St Branwalader, recorded in the 12th century as Sancti

Brewveredi de Hamatethi, down the hill to Limehead, a distance of just over one mile. Today with about 208 dwellings, the village was until World War 2, a series of small hamlets at Churchtown, Rylands, Lower Penquite, Row, Higher Penquite and Limehead, nestling between areas of common land. It is midway between Camelford and Bodmin (6miles approx) and 10 miles from Wadebridge, the three nearest towns which provide those services not found in the village. The parish also contains the smaller settlements of Delank (Lower Lank),Hantergantick, Penpont, Penrose, Penvorder and Tuckingmill.

Central to the life of the village are the primary school, Parish Church, Methodist Chapel, village shop, post office, pub and football club. The village has four community rooms, the Village Hall at Churchtown, the Band Room and the Methodist Chapel in the middle at Row and the Institute & Memorial Hall lower down at Limbhead. Other important services are 2 part-time doctors‟ surgeries, a fortnightly mobile library, and a toddler group. There are two play areas at Rylands and at Penvorder and our Community Bus is regularly used. The village has a Silver Band, a Youth Club and a Guide & Brownie group which meet in their hut at Lower Lank.

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Landscape designations cover the entire Parish, including an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an Area of Great Landscape Value, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Area of Conservation, several Cornwall Nature Conservation Sites, and an Area of Great Historic Value.

Everywhere there are signs of human activity from prehistoric features such as burial chambers, stone circles, settlements and field systems to medieval farmsteads, chapels, wells, crosses and streamworks, and most recently to post-medieval quarrying, china clay working and mining.

Moorland Granite has been used for centuries to build local houses and churches and stone from St Breward quarries was used for important and famous landmarks including the Eddystone Lighthouse 1882, the Beachy Head Lighthouse 1900 and Tower Bridge 1890 and London Bridge 1991.

The parish also contains some of Bodmin Moor‟s most spectacular scenery and is the starting point of the renowned Camel Trail at Wenfordbridge, 18 miles of disused railway track bed beside the River Camel, converted to a cycle trail, linking the towns of Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow. It is Cornwall‟s busiest tourist and local attraction with some 400,000 visitors each year.

The parish is also important for its rare flora and fauna, including insectivorous sundew, common cotton grass and cross-leaved heath. There are also a number of rare ferns and mosses. It has significant breeding populations of wheatear and meadow pipits and small colonies of the Pearl- bordered fritillary butterfly.

Clay working, granite quarrying and farming used to be the parish‟s main sources of income and jobs. Clay working has ceased; only one of three granite quarries remain with few local jobs and modern farmers rely mainly on family and machinery. Tourism and public services provide the bulk of the jobs in the parish today.

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T he Parish Appraisal and Outcomes The Parish Appraisal asked everyone in the parish for their views and 32% of adults and 50% of teenagers responded. Letters were written to the relevant authorities about:

 The state of the roads, danger spots and traffic calming measures.  Poor police cover for the parish.  Agenda 21 responsibilities of District Council for recycling of waste.  Informing Neighbourhood Watch of the keen interest of parishioners in becoming subscribers.  The Primary Care Group about the shortcomings in the ambulance service and any other matters within the ambit of their responsibility.  The Football Club about the possibilities of establishing an under-16 Section.  The Community Bus and First Western National requesting that they improve their availability and timetables to suit a greater number of potential passengers.  Provision of Adult Education courses in the Village Hall.  The formation of an Environmental Action Group was mooted.

Achievements of the Parish Appraisal have been mixed.

 Road maintenance still causes concern, danger spots still exist and only limited traffic calming measures have been introduced. The only positive outcome is that the Parish Council has a more positive relationship with CC Highways department, albeit severely constrained by tight budgets.  The Parish now has a monthly police surgery at Churchtown & Row and a more proactive community police presence, whilst Neighbourhood Watch has seen a large decline in membership.  Recycling is now a way of life for us all and our recent Energy & Recycling Fair was a great success.  The Primary Care Group has been amalgamated and reorganised into a Primary Care Trust and ambulance and medical services appear to be freely available although at greater distances due to centralisation of specialist facilities.  The Football Club has not established an under 16 section although a youth club, based in the club has recently been formed.

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 National Bus services are still poor; Corlink provides a dial up service, our Community Bus committee have just purchased a new bus and run regular trips to Truro and to the theatre in Plymouth.  Adult education classes were held in the Village Hall. Two art groups now meet on a weekly basis at both community halls.  An Environmental Action Group was not formed.

The Parish Appraisal broadened the Parish Council‟s horizons, causing it to work hard over the intervening years to achieve the appraisal‟s outcomes. Councillors have attended many meetings and conferences on planning, Sustainable Communities, AONB‟s and play provision and have undertaken training to improve their effectiveness, knowledge and skills in helping to make St Breward a viable and effective community for the 21st century.

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The Parish Plan

We felt that people would not be bothered to complete another survey after the response to the outcomes of the appraisal, so we needed to come up with a viable alternative that would provide us with the necessary information and participation of most of our parishioners. The teaser was our „Blue Peter Evening.‟

Asking the community if they wanted a Parish Plan - ‘Blue Peter’ evening.

The St Breward Parish Plan began on Thursday 12th May 2005 when St Breward Parish Council asked every community group to send two people to a „Fun Evening‟ in the Methodist Chapel. We were deliberately vague about the evening but hoped that all our community groups would be curious enough to come along. We were not disappointed.

Anita Cornelius gave a short presentation explaining why the Parish Council felt St Breward needed a Parish Plan, what we hoped to get from it and how this evening was an important first step for our plan.

They were then told that it was a „Blue Peter‟ evening, each group having scissors, glue, 2 large card boards, marker pens and lots of magazines filled with varied illustrations.

Anita invited them to prepare two story boards with:

Story board 1: Using the materials available – create a storyboard which explains the concerns for now and the future, and any future developments of your organisation.

Story board 2: Using the materials available – create a storyboard which explains your concerns for now and the future developments of St. Breward.

After a very short time the chapel was filled with the noise of everyone enjoying themselves – perhaps reliving a part of their childhood – there was no reserve or awkwardness, everyone was happily involved in the first stage of our Parish Plan.

At the end of the evening each group had a chance to look at each other‟s work and were asked “where do we go from here?” The overwhelming consensus was that St Breward should have a Parish Plan.

A Parish Plan group was formed to plan and organize our Consultation Event, where we would ask all the people of our parish to come along to find out the concerns and hopes of our village organisations and to tell us of their own hopes and worries for the future of the village of St Breward.

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Consultation Event We held our Consultation event from a Friday through until the Monday in March 2006, for all parishioners to have a say in shaping the future of their village. This was held in the Methodist Chapel. Everyone was welcomed and asked to put a coloured sticker (male or female) on our caterpillar in the correct age group section.

The story boards from each parish group were displayed around the Chapel. Across the back of the chapel was the large map of the parish, which the children of St Breward Primary School had helped to paint earlier in the week.

Everyone was asked to stick a note on the map where they had any concerns or comments relating to that part of the parish. They were also asked to stick a leaf of their wishes for St Breward on our Wishing Tree or to use the suggestion box.

On Friday morning the children from St Breward School came to view the finished map and to place their houses on the map. In the afternoon, the high-school teenagers were encouraged to come in, as they came off the Camelford School bus, with pizza and a soft drink.

On the Saturday, we had a children‟s entertainer to attract families with small children and someone to do face painting. On the Saturday, Sunday and Monday the Chapel was busy with parishioners looking at the displays and maps, making comments and enjoying the refreshments on offer.

On the Monday evening the Parish Council held their Annual Parish Meeting in the Chapel when a résumé of the consultation event was presented and each community organisation was given the opportunity to talk about their group. This was reckoned to be the best attended Annual Parish Meeting in recent memory.

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Analysing the results. Data from the Story boards, map, wishing tree and suggestion box was collated under various headings by the Parish Plan group.

Delays The threatened closure of many rural post offices saw the Parish Council, the parish plan group and the entire village galvanised into a very vigorous campaign which took up the summer of 2008.

A draft Parish Plan document was presented to the Parish Council in 2009, but being told that by planning experts that a successful Parish Plan must have planning content, where the community and local planners arrive at an agreed Parish Design Statement, meant that the publication of the final document has been delayed until now. The design Statement should cover housing needs, acceptable type and design and preferred or permitted areas of development, whilst complying with local and national planning guidelines.

St Breward Parish Council has asked Plymouth University for help in producing this design guide and is currently awaiting a successful outcome to their application.

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Housing

Key Points  There is a strong perceived need for affordable homes for local people either for rent, shared equity or self-build.  There is a strong desire for any new housing or development to be eco-friendly.  There is a strong desire and need to restrict the number of holiday or second homes in our community.  Acceptable rate of development. If gardens had not been built on there would be less need for allotments.  Sympathetic future planning of homes including character and size – overdevelopment and in-fill. St Breward needs to keep its stock of smaller cottages and homes – the tendency for new owners to extend means that we would eventually have too many very expensive five bedroomed properties and not enough cheaper, smaller more affordable houses for younger families with CHILDREN.

Comment: Affordable housing schemes release all the affordable element at the same time – local need is unable to fill them in such a short time scale. It would be much better to drip feed affordable homes into a community over a longer time-scale say 5 years. This would avoid affordable homes being filled by people from outside the county.

Any future social housing in the Parish should be on short leases so that there is a turnover of affordable housing. This would prevent single occupancy of 2 and 3 bedroomed housing, but would necessitate having a range of different housing to suit all sizes of families.

Issues Action Partners Timescale Need for Awaiting development of Chyryn Cornwall Council Short term? Scheme affordable Drive - 10 affordable houses has had many delays housing in starting on site Encourage better Consult with Cornwall Council and Cornwall Council Medium term use of social housing associations to assess the Housing Agencies housing current housing stock, its current use and explore means of optimising use. Eco-friendly Community would like this written Camelford Community Short to medium housing into local planning guide/framework Network, Cornwall term Council SW Strategic Leaders Board, Government Strong concerns Community would like this written Camelford Community Short to medium about into local planning guide/framework Network, Cornwall term overdevelopment Council and in-fill SW Strategic Leaders Board, Government Restrict the Community would like this written Camelford Community Short to medium number of holiday into local planning guide/framework Network, Cornwall term or second homes Council SW Strategic Leaders Board, Government

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Children and Young People

Comment: Of all the age groups who took part in our consultation weekend, children and young adults made the most comments and suggestions, which covered a wide range of concerns and wishes.

What stood out was the almost total lack of organised activities for them to do and places for them to go. The formation of the youth club has helped but there were requests for a mixed age after- school group, organised holiday activities and creative workshops and a push bike club among other wishes. They need their own space – somewhere for young people/teenagers to meet away from adults but close enough to feel secure.

Play Areas: The wooden play equipment in the two play areas need replacing. Proposed that Rylands is replaced and stays as a play area for the under 12‟s. Penvorder is to be maintained for as long as possible but new play/exercise/fitness equipment for teenagers and adults should be located in the football club grounds, together with an all weather surfaced area with goal posts for informal games. There are few under 12‟s living in the Penvorder area at present. The proposal is that when it is not practical to maintain the current equipment, it is not replaced.

Issues Action Partners Timescale Rylands play area: Plan new equipment – keep Cornwall Council, Medium term Wooden play equipment for the under 12‟s CRCC is failing - will need major Fund raise and apply for work by 2012 grants Penvorder Play Area. Fund repairs from Parish Cornwall Council, Medium term Keep equipment going for precept. Discuss with CRCC as long as is practical Cornwall Council future use of play area. Design scheme at football Consult with Football Club Cornwall Council, Medium term club to have a variety of and design scheme. CRCC, Sport England, play/fitness equipment Fund raise and apply for Cornwall Playing Fields suitable for a wide range grants. Association of age groups Guide hut facilities need Work has begun but much St Breward Guides & Short term updating. remains to be done – Brownies, including fund raising Youth Club: Started in Needs active community St Breward AFC & Social Medium to April 2009. Attracts support and equipment. Has Club, Youth Club leaders, Long term upwards of 40 youngsters secured sufficient funding to Cornwall Council Youth set up, requires more to Services grow. Cubs and Scouts. No Find out likely Scout Association, Medium term provision at present. interest/numbers and if Community groups sufficient, advertise for volunteer leaders Strong desire for Consult with Football Club St Breward AFC & Social Short to skateboard facilities over feasibility and design Club medium term – could be part of play scheme. Community Bus Group, equipment at football club Fund raise and apply for Youth Club or use community bus to grants. Ask Community bus take those interested to or youth club if they could nearby skateboard parks run bus trips to nearby skateboard parks

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Issues Action Partners Timescale After School Group Discuss with new head of St Cornwall Council Short term Breward School St Breward School Push bike club – need to There are not many places in Youth club Short to medium assess need for a formal village for children to ride St Breward School term club. Children have had bikes safely. Ask Youth club road safety lessons at or school if bike related school – not recently? sessions could be organised – road safety & bike maintenance Need for a mini sports Consult with Football Club St Breward AFC & Social Medium term centre and gym: The and design scheme. Club Youth Club wants to buy Fund raise and apply for Cornwall Council, some gym equipment but grants. CRCC, Sport England, a more structured Cornwall Playing Fields approach is needed to Association cater for a wider range of age groups and village organisations

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Environment

Key Points. Residents are very aware of the environment in which they live. The Consultation weekend echoed our earlier Parish Appraisal, “The majority of respondents stated that the most important qualities about St Breward were family ties, village facilities and its beautiful rural location.”

Issues Action Partners Timescale Dog fouling continues to Continue educating dog Cornwall Council dog Ongoing be a problem in parts of owners and reporting warden, Community the village centre and on abuses. Reminders in magazine and those commons closest community magazine and community website to the village most used new community website. for dog walking Look at dog bin provision Concern about litter in Reminders in community Community magazine, Ongoing the village and on the magazine and new community website, moor community website. Kernow Farm Plastics, Ask government to tax Cornwall Council plastic carrier bags Encourage farmers to recycle plastic wrap. Control of gorse, Agree an action plan with Camelford Community Ongoing brambles & hedges on Cornwall Council to Network, Cornwall road verges encourage landowners to Council, Landowners have better control of their verges and hedges Preserving the moor: Keep a watching brief Camel Valley & Bodmin Ongoing most of the parish is and develop closer ties Moor Preservation covered by AONB, SSSI with partner Society, Cornwall and all of it is an area of organisations AONB, Cornwall Great Landscape Value Council, and Great Historical Natural England Value Increase recycling: Encourage and educate St Breward School, Ongoing - Held an the many households community magazine and Energy & Recycling Fair. In the year 07/08, 66% of who do not recycle or community website. household waste was still compost. Encourage Battery collection tube in going to landfill Cornwall Council to St Breward Stores. accept more items for recycling Parish Council looking at ways to produce community energy. Public Footpaths: Our The current situation is Cornwall Council Ongoing paths in and around the that all gold path Natural England main settlement are used improvements in the mostly by residents, parish are now complete, whilst outlying paths with the exception of across the moors are several signposts. Most used more by visitors silver paths and all especially FP 2, which bronze paths have had no stretches from the work done on them. The Church out across the Parish Council is still

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Moors almost to the foot trying to form a St of Butter‟s Tor. Breward Footpath Group of volunteers. St Breward was among the last few parishes in The Parish Council the County to have their working party on public Gold paths brought up to footpaths is actively acceptable standards monitoring the footpaths under Cornwall Rights of and is liaising with Way Improvement Plan. Cornwall Council‟s 50% of our paths were Senior Area Ranger to classified as Gold. resolve any problems. Japanese knotweed and Further outbreaks to be Cornwall Council, Ongoing Himalayan Balsam are notified to Cornwall Westcountry Rivers being controlled under Council – online form Trust the Camel Valley Invasive Weeds Scheme by Westcountry Rivers Trust Flowering the Community Woodland: Cornwall Council neighbourhood. Want Identify areas suitable of Forestry Commission nature reserve/orchard. tree planting and discuss Plant more trees with landowners Issues Action Partners Timescale Access on the moor: The Keep a watching brief. Hamethy Commoners Ongoing CROW Act 2000 has Parish Council attended a and Blisland Commoners opened up most of the meeting at Delphy called Associations. open moor to walkers by Natural England asking Cornwall Council but there are still issues for restrictions to river & with horse riding on the surroundings - made moor. Local riders Natural England and appear to be tolerated landowners aware of strength of local feeling. Skip in village for garden waste

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Employment

Comment: The Parish Appraisal (2000) broadly agrees with the latest employment figures available, which show that 38.5% of those aged between 16 and 74 were economically inactive.

The Parish Appraisal found that the majority of respondents (34%) were retired, 27% employed, 20% self-employed and under training schemes, 8% were in education, 6% unwaged, 3.5% unemployed and 3% sick or disabled.

Since 2000, Wenford Dries and Stannon Clay works have closed, and workers who had re-located to other clay works in Cornwall have suffered in the major contraction of the industry. Of the three granite quarries, Hantergantick and Tor Down are inactive with De Lank the only remaining active quarry. In the parish and in north Cornwall contraction and failure of businesses has lead to loss of jobs.

A high proportion of the self-employed are employed servicing the holiday businesses and local housing stock – construction, repair and maintenance, whilst part time workers are equally divided between holiday businesses, pub, shop, post office and the caring profession.

There is little opportunity for youngsters to gain structured jobs that offer training or advancement up the employment chain. There are no schemes in the parish to improve the skills base. Most youngsters who successfully complete a college or university course have to find suitable work outside north Cornwall or out of the county.

Issues Action Partners Timescale Four rural workshops were Ask Cornwall Council of Cornwall Council Medium term built as starter units. In feasibility of the units CRCC recent years they have not becoming a community been marketed as business asset enabling the start up units. Currently they community to increase do not provide a single job. local employment or demolish and turn into a much needed car park Broadband provision is not Ask BT what they are going BT, Cornwall Short term consistent across the parish – to do about it. Council, other seemingly dependant on how Contact other Bodmin moorland parishes, far you are from the St Tudy Moor parishes to find out Camelford exchange the scale of the problem Community and raise the profile of the Network problem Tor Down Quarry – no Discuss with owners Cornwall Council Long Term current use – use restricted possible future uses which CRCC by strategic mineral would bring both owner Owners designation. and community benefits Hantergantick Quarry – no Discuss with owners Cornwall Council Long Term current use – use restricted possible future uses which CRCC by strategic mineral would bring owner and Owners designation. community benefits

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Wenford Dries – no current Discuss with owners Cornwall Council Short to use – recent proposal for possible future uses which Owners medium term conversion to 35 dwellings – would bring owner and an expensive site to community benefits decontaminate especially its close proximity to river Camel Wenford Pottery. Tea rooms Discuss with owners Cornwall Council Short to have closed and what would possible future uses which Camel Trail medium term have been a focal point for the would bring owner and Partnership top end of the Camel Trail community benefits Owners has been lost. Proposals to turn this to accommodation should be resisted

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Transport & Roads

Comment: Reduction in parking minimums from 1.5 down to 1 space per dwelling might encourage urban dwellers to use public transport, but the reality for rural communities is that households of two adults need two cars as they need to go in different directions. Building in gardens over recent years has meant a net loss of off-road parking and at Row where there are 16 existing houses without any off-road parking, the possibility of a further 19 houses in Chyryn Drive will exacerbate an already difficult situation.

Asking for road improvements is a never ending battle with highways with available money versus higher rates the deciding factor. Maybe greater scrutiny over council spending priorities might free up some budget to allow for pothole repair?

Issues Action Partners Timescale Traffic calming to reduce speed Highway loath to do more. Ask for a Cornwall council Short term – Highways have met with 20mph limit for centre of village. Parish Council and looked at all Parish could purchase their own the road issues flashing sign but at great expense Parking at Row and Chyryn Parish Council make strong Camelford Medium to Drive – Narrow lanes and representations to developers and Community long term houses with no off road parking planners over allowing for enough off- Network is an insoluble problem road parking Cornwall Council Government Parking in village generally See above See above See above More street lighting Parish Council to survey current street Cornwall Council Short term lighting and assess need Dangerous HGV traffic – Signs have been installed warning of Cornwall Council Short term because of the narrow lanes pedestrians. large tankers using Penvorder Parish Council to look at this again on their way to the with Highways waterworks fill the lane there are no footpaths. Reinstate footpath in Lank Highways engineer said that there Cornwall Council Road could not have been a proper width footpath along Lank Road Roadsigns to warn motorists Ask Highways – who will say that they Cornwall Council Medium that we have no footpaths on have no budget. term most of our narrow village lanes Transport out of the village Public transport is uneconomic for Cornwall Council Short term Who would want to leave? rural areas. Corlink provides a Community Bus reasonable service and weekly buses go to Trago Mills and to some supermarkets. Community bus goes to Truro twice a month and we have a village taxi service. Horse riders to be more visible Beware horse rider signs have been Cornwall Council Short term erected at Wenford and Penvorder Improve gritting in winter Parish council has asked for more grit Cornwall Council Short term bins & to grit our roads ourselves.

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Health

Key points  Most residents are happy with GP Services in village  Concerns over cost of hospital transport – chemotherapy treatments often mean daily visits to Treliske Hospital for a number of weeks (5 x 65 miles per week)  Parking charges at Treliske are seen as too high.  Not enough NHS dental provision in area

Issues Action Partners Timescale Keeping both Doctors‟ Supported campaign to keep rural Both Doctors‟ Done Surgeries in the village dispensaries, which are an integral part Surgeries of a rural surgery Cornwall PCT Access to an NHS dentist A Discuss with PCT Cornwall PCT Short term concern for many in the parish Concern over lack of Discuss with PCT Cornwall PCT Short term information of what services, Bodmin Hospital clinics are available locally – i.e. at Bodmin Hospital Car Parking costs at Treliske Publicise Park & Ride service from Community Short term Hospital Threemilestone currently £1.20 per Newsletter and day website Concerns over air pollution Plans have not been approved and Cornwall Council Long term from central waste incinerator appear to have been shelved Ambulance service – The Community needs to continue St Breward First Short term formation of a First supporting Cornwall Air Ambulance Responders, Responders group has meant (FAST). Cornwall PCT that casualties get quick St Breward First Responders need Ambulance Service attention well before the continued support. Currently they ambulance arrives. The air need more trained volunteers but the ambulance is still available for Ambulance Service does not have the the very urgent cases funds for training – Consult Ambulance service and First Responders to see if community can raise some of the training funds needed

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Adults

Comment: A majority of adults were happy with the number of activities available in the Parish. (See page24 for a list of community groups and activities)

Additional facilities requested were a café, butcher and farm shop. Concerns were raised over the number of public buildings/halls in the village and the strain this puts on a small community to support such buildings – Village Hall, War Memorial & Institute Hall, Chapel and Band-room.

Extra adult activities suggested were, a weekly outing to Dragon Centre or gym using community bus, a meeting for the over 60‟s in the afternoon, more village functions and a plea for more to join Camel Valley & Bodmin Moor Protection Society.

Issues Action Partners Timescale New signposts Sign for De Lank & Penpont agreed Cornwall Council Short term with Highways. Fingerposts at Rylands, football club and at Higher Lank – positions agreed with Highways but funding is being sought Allotments. Parish Farmers asked to provide land Cornwall Council Waiting Council has been asked – short term for allotments Only one village hall Ideal situation would be to have one CRCC Medium to amenity. The groups large community centre with Community Halls long term who support the 4 adequate parking. Reality is that the buildings are very halls need to work closer together to supportive of their halls avoid duplication of services and to share out uses. None of existing buildings are suitable for a multipurpose community centre with adequate parking Adult education – more Ask Village Hall and Memorial Hall Community Halls Short term evening classes requested Committees for comments Major concerns about Engage with new head teacher to Cornwall Council Long term use and support for our explore ways in which community can village school add full support. Requests to use the Discuss situation with Cornwall Cornwall Council school out of hours- this Council – but if we have 4 public has ceased in recent halls/rooms – why do we need to use years due to costs and the school? Cornwall Council policies A request for musical Gauge need and discuss with St St Breward Silver Band Short term instruments for use by = Breward Silver Band and school St Breward School adults & young people Issue Parish information A village directory and a community Village groups & Short term to newcomers and website will both form part of this businesses provide a village Parish Plan directory Organisations to display The website will be a central notice Village groups Short term time and dates of board for those on-line but activities organisations will be asked to publish in community magazine

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Religion

The village has a Parish Church and a Methodist Church. Both suffer from declining congregations although 75% of residents professed to be Christian on the last census (2001) with 13% declaring that they had no religion.

Both churches are reasonably well supported in their fund-raising with good use for baptisms, weddings and funerals although with the advent of non-church wedding venues there will be an inevitable decline in church weddings.

A majority of people in the parish want to keep their parish church.

Issues Action Partners Timescale Support the new Ask the Friends to do Friends of St Breward Short term Friends of St Breward more publicise their Church Church events, aims and accounts Open upstairs in Inform Chapel of this St Breward Methodist Immediate Chapel after Sunday request Church service to have a coffee

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Village Services

Facilities Comment Village shop General store & off Licence & cash point Post Office Newsagent with internet café – no disabled access to cafe The Old Inn Pub & restaurant – restaurant seats 110 – small car park Village Hall Recently restored to full size – car park for 20 cars approx Institute & Memorial Hall Smaller than village hall – lower room no disabled access. No dedicated car parking Methodist Chapel Stage and large room – parking a major problem. No alcohol or raffles Band Room Room and kitchen – limited parking Primary School Not used outside school hours. Playing field seldom used for organised games. School roll down from 61 – 2001, 53 – 2006 to 27 - 2009 Two part-time Doctors‟ surgeries Two surgeries means that there is a doctor in village Monday to Friday Public toilets Was a ladies and gents now only one disabled toilet. NCDC had agreed to reinstate gents but never carried out promise. PC to chase up with CC Mobile Chiropodist Has a morning surgery in Inst & Mem Hall and visits some housebound patients – private not NHS Mobile Fish & Chips Football club on Tuesday evenings 5pm to 7pm Mobile Fishmonger Thursdays through village Mobile library Stops at Limbhead and Row once a fortnight – used to stop at Rylands – always under threat as library service an easy target when savings have to be made Football club One soccer pitch with club house – used frequently – good for large events such as village carnival and Bodmin Lions Ten Tors charity walk Camel Trail Well used by village – off road, level and a pleasant walk or bike/horse ride. Brings quite a few visitors into the village, who use other facilities. No toilets at Wenford – strong concern of Parish Council; reasonable sized car park. Community Website Under construction – to be a source of parish information and a connection between all village groups and the community Community Groups Comment Art Group Meets in Memorial Hall weekly Art & Craft Group Meets in Village Hall weekly Baby & Toddler group Uses Village Hall – now liaises closer with school? Bell Ringers Ring the church bells – Tuesday night practice Brownies & Guides Meet at their hut at De Lank – currently upgrading guide hut – massive fund raising required Carnival Committee Arranges Carnival Week in July and other events throughout the year. Usually manage to distribute upwards of £2,000 to village groups in recent years Commoners Associations Two sets of commoners have responsibility over extensive commons in the parish. Community Bus New bus recently purchased. Do school run and regular trips to Plymouth and Truro as well as extensive use by other community groups. Exercise Group Meets in Village Hall weekly First Responders Called by ambulance service to respond to local emergencies – they have saved lives – need more volunteers and help with training costs Gardening Club Meets in Memorial Hall and visit gardens elsewhere in Cornwall & Devon Handbell Ringers Play 2 sets of bells and meet in the church Pilates Meets in Village Hall weekly

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Community Groups Comment Luncheon Club Lunch once a month at the football club for the over 50‟s – has a waiting list Neighbourhood Watch Needs to recruit new members – difficult in a low crime area! NCCU Credit Union Has a Service Point in post Office on Monday afternoons 3.00– 4.30. Encourages better financial management from its members and offers loans at a low rate of interest – needs to recruit more members in village. Parish Council Meets usually on first Tuesday of every month in Memorial Hall St Breward School PTA Newly formed in 2009 – busily supporting our school Short Mat Bowls club Newly formed in 2008 – use Village Hall St Breward Silver Band One of oldest groups in village active in competitions and events. They hire out their band room for coffee mornings etc Theatre goers A group who organise regular trips to theatres in Plymouth & Truro using community bus Women‟s Institute Meet in Memorial Hall

Conclusions:

This Parish Plan lacks a design guide section and has been much delayed. However St Breward Parish Council is actively seeking to revise the PP and to include the missing elements.

Whilst this document awaited publication, St Breward Parish has assiduously pursued stakeholders seeking to bring to their attention, many of the issues raised by this Parish Plan. St Breward Parish Council has endeavoured to promote our parish by having a respected voice locally and county wide. We can only achieve this by being reasonable and by working closely with our partners.

Local and national government is undergoing a radical shake up, with far-reaching cuts to public services. Communities are being asked to take control of some of the services that are currently provided by outside bodies. To stay on top of these changes and to ensure that St Breward realises its potential will mean a greater investment in time, training and volunteering by our community. We need to be vigilant and to be dogged in our determination to provide the best for all of our community.

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