Issue 154 Feb/Mar 2021 LEFT: Keeper Donna Sinclair feeding Jai-Li the Red Panda and right in the food room helping to prepare food for over 1,200 birds and animals. Paradise Park continues its fight for survival through the winter months See page 8 Free! thanks to our volunteers and 154 advertisers. 1 Hayle Pump Newsletter Passmore Edwards Institute, 13-15 Hayle Terrace TR27 4BU The Pump is produced by volunteers as a community newsletter. NB All articles accepted are not necessarily the view of the editorial team. View online at www.haylepump.org.uk Editorial team contact Subscriptions [email protected] Tina Morgan Web site Phone: 01736 756567 John Bennett [email protected] For 6 issues by post, please send a cheque or postal order for £4.30 Team Members made out to Mrs T. Morgan and Tina Morgan (Subscriptions) send to Mrs T Morgan, 29 Bodriggy Claire Sheppard (Treasurer) St., Hayle, TR27 4NB Stephen Murley (Editor) Please give your name and John Cole (Distribution) number as well as the delivery Jeff Turk (Advertising) name. NEXT ISSUE = April/May 2021 Advertising Send any articles or copy to: Jeff Turk Phone: 01736 752319 [email protected] Send your adverts to: or drop off at: [email protected] Angove Sports (Copperhouse or use the drop off points. The Farm Shop (Foundry) Advertising Rates: Passmore Edwards Institute (opposite War Memorial) 1/8 63 x 47.5 £10 NEXT DEADLINE is 1/4 63 x 95 £15 13th MARCH 2021 1/2 NA 2 Mayor’s New Year Message. I am very glad to see the end of 2020, normally I reflect on achievements during a year, last year I merely see Coronavirus, businesses closing and struggling, my friends and family in isolation to keep themselves safe. It has been a horrible year but I must reflect on the wonderful effort of our essential workers, at hospitals, in the community, everyone you are heroes and deserve the highest acclaim. A huge thank you from Hayle. What can I look forward to in 2021? Well first and most important a Coronavirus vaccine that will provide herd immunity and hopefully we can all say goodbye to it once and for all. When I am called for the vaccine I will be there. I look forward to meeting my family and friends and giving my grandchildren a cuddle. To walking freely and visiting our local shops, to watching our local sports teams, visiting The Day Care Centre and playing snooker at Passmore Edwards Institute, to having a meal out and most of all being free of restrictions. Let’s hope that 2021 provides the area with prosperity, an abundance of sunshine and people smiling. As we leave Covid 19 be grateful that we have survived, and can relate how we survived. Clive Polkinhorne Mayor of Hayle. 3 continues to work with and support a Council number of groups and organisations in the town annually, including Hayle Day Corner Care Centre, Hayle in Bloom, Hayle February/ Decorative Lights and it also contributes March 2021 to the work of the Towans Ranger. New Councilors and Council Vacancy In December 2020 the Council welcomed 2021/2022 Precept Demand two new councilors. June Lawrenson- Reid and Josh Daniel, who will represent Hayle Town Council’s Precept will the South Ward and North Ward’s increase this year by 5.9%. The final respectively. We extend a warm Precept for 2021/22 is £635,784. welcome to you both and look forward to working with you. The Town Council uses the precept funding to continue to provide many Harry Blakely has recently resigned from services such as public realm CCTV, the Town Council. He has been very public conveniences, footpaths active in the community, particularly maintenance and management of all as Chairman of the Hayle Residents open spaces, including Hayle Recreation Association, as well as serving on the Ground and King George V Memorial council for several years. We thank Walk, the Open-Air Swimming Pool, you Harry and wish you well for the Hayle Community Centre and Hayle Library. Additionally, the Town Council future. Harry’s departure means we still have a vacancy, in the South Ward. More information is on the council’s website. If you would like to get involved and take an active role in shaping the future of Hayle, please contact the Clerk, details below, to have an informal chat to find out what is involved. Covid-19 We are still trying to deliver as many services and function as normal during this third lockdown. Council meetings are still continuing, albeit remotely via Zoom. These are open to the public and you are welcome to watch via the live streaming facility and/or register to speak if you have something to say or raise. The town’s library remains open on a 4 reduced basis and a click and collect for vehicles, except for access. The basis, more information can be walk, which hosts stunning sub- found on both the Cornwall Council tropical gardens and borders and Hayle Town Council website. Copperhouse Pool, has always been popular with walkers, cyclists and Following government guidelines, equestrians, but the need for social the tennis and MUGA courts have distancing has meant increasing been closed to the public and more numbers of these people using the recently we have had to take the highway, bringing them into conflict painful decision to close both the with motorists who use the walk as a play park and the skate bowl. We short-cut to and from the Foundry are aware that some people area of Hayle. This has been made continue to ignore the signs, climb worse by collapses of the cliff onto the gates and congregate in these parts of the footpath, forcing areas, please don’t, you are putting pedestrians onto the highway and not only yourselves but your family limiting the ability of cars to pass and friends at risk. We ask that each other safely. To reduce the risk parents and carers keep a check on of vulnerable road users being killed their children’s activities. The or injured, Hayle Town Council playing field remains open and recently voted to apply to temporarily available for use. close the road to through traffic for Public toilets remain open at this six months. It has been closed to stage as do all of the other open through traffic on Sundays since spaces in our ownership or under our management. Update on the former Hawkins Motors Site – Hayle Terrace We are pleased to confirm that things are on track for the site to be formally transferred to the Town Council. It may well have happened by the time this is published! The Amenities Committee will soon be looking at all the suggestions that members of the public supplied for the site. Thank you for your interest, we will keep you posted as decisions are made and the plans progress. King George V Memorial Walk As you most likely have seen, the town council applied to Cornwall Council for the temporary closure of the King George V Memorial Walk 5 2012. Cornwall Council is considering meeting on 4 February 2021. This the application and reviewing the meeting will be live streamed and Traffic Regulation Orders to see if this available on demand, as usual. can be done and we are anxiously Hayle Town Council waiting their response. Hayle Community Centre Hayle Harbour Development 58 Queensway Planning application number Hayle PA20/05161 for North Quay Road, TR27 4NX Hayle Harbour, Hayle is scheduled to be considered by Hayle Town Council 01736 755005 on 21 January 2021 and its views [email protected] will be submitted to Cornwall Council www.hayletowncouncil.net on Friday 22 January (both dates Office hours 9.30am – 12.30pm correct at the time of writing), following a vote to defer in December 2020. The Millponds Update Town Council’s response will be published on Cornwall Council’s What a strange end to 2020 with planning portal and also on the Town the modern version of the Great Council website. Cornwall Council’s Plague still causing us so many Strategic Planning Committee will be problems. Just having a single day determining the application at its at Christmas was really sad for all those families who had spent months apart but at least our Christmas Lights Committee did a great job. The decorative lights really looked great and helped us get through it all to 2021. The ponds are still very clean and we have got our bench back again on the Inner Pond. The ducks are happy and in good health. We have some females back and we had three broods of 6 ducklings. There were eighteen to start with. The highest number of ducklings we have ever had. We still have fourteen survivors. The female Mandarin has moved on but we have a white drake which maybe a relative of Snowy, our little white Call Duck. He has settled in well with the other drakes. The squirrels still visit us now and then but the turtles have settled down for the winter now. I am not really surprised. We have had real winter weather with thick frost and even a snowflake or two. We had a feeling about this winter with all the berries on our hawthorn and holly. The Ropewalk and Gardens are tidy and visitors are keeping them rubbish free. Thank you for all your efforts. The daffodils are peeping through the lawns and should make a cheerful splash of colour.