Statement of Community Involvement St Austell to A30 Link Statement of Community Involvement Prepared for: Cornwall Council December 2018 St Austell to A30 Link Statement of Community Involvement Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Background to this Statement of Community Involvement ........................................................ 4 1.2 Overview of the scheme ............................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Approach to engagement ........................................................................................................... 6 1.4 Previous engagement ................................................................................................................ 6 2. Pre-application engagement activities ............................................................. 9 2.1 Communications programme ..................................................................................................... 9 2.2 Public exhibition events ............................................................................................................ 10 3. Feedback received ........................................................................................ 15 3.1 Summary of feedback received ................................................................................................ 15 3.2 Main themes emerging from feedback ..................................................................................... 18 4. How feedback has been taken into consideration ......................................... 22 5. Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 26 Appendices .............................................................................................................. 27 Appendix 1 Letters between The Cornwall Countryside Access Forum and Cormac Solutions ....... 27 Appendix 1.1 Letter from The Cornwall Countryside Access Forum to Cormac Solutions, 28 August 2018……………………………………………………………………………………………..…..27 Appendix 1.2 Letter from The Cornwall Countryside Access Forum to Cormac Solutions, 31 October 2018 ................................................................................................................................... 28 Appendix 2 Newsletters .................................................................................................................... 29 Appendix 2.1 Newsletter No. 1, November 2016 ............................................................................... 29 Appendix 2.2 Newsletter No. 2, June 2017 ........................................................................................ 30 Appendix 2.3 Newsletter No. 3, September 2018 .............................................................................. 31 Appendix 3 Press release ................................................................................................................ 32 Appendix 4 Press coverage ............................................................................................................. 33 Appendix 4.1 Cornwall Live, 1 October 2018 ..................................................................................... 33 Appendix 4.2 Pirate FM, September 2018 .......................................................................................... 34 Appendix 5 Roche Parish magazine, October 2018 ........................................................................ 35 Appendix 6 Public information boards .............................................................................................. 36 Appendix 7 Exhibition booklet .......................................................................................................... 37 Appendix 8 Response cards by location .......................................................................................... 38 Appendix 9 Response cards ............................................................................................................ 39 Figures Figure 1.1: The scheme .......................................................................................................................... 5 Figure 2.1: Public exhibition locations ................................................................................................... 11 Figure 2.2: Photo from the Eden led workshop taking place at the public exhibition event at Roche Victory Hall ............................................................................................................................................ 13 Figure 3.1: Number of attendees and completed comment cards per event ........................................ 16 Figure 3.2: Number of attendees shown by location of residency ........................................................ 16 Figure 3.3: Photos from public engagment events at Roche Victory Hall (set-up before event opening) and Wheal Martyn Clay Museum .......................................................................................................... 17 St Austell to A30 Link 2 Statement of Community Involvement Tables Table 2.1 Locations, dates and times of the 2018 public exhibition events .......................................... 10 Table 3.1: Number of attendees and completed comment cards per event ......................................... 15 Table 4.1: Key themes identified in the feedback received and how they have been taken into consideration ......................................................................................................................................... 22 St Austell to A30 Link 3 Statement of Community Involvement 1. Introduction 1.1 Background to this Statement of Community Involvement 1.1.1 This Statement of Community Involvement provides details of the community engagement programme implemented to help inform the development of detailed planning application for the development of the St Austell to A30 Link, on behalf of Cornwall Council. 1.1.2 The main body of this report is divided into three sections following this introduction. These provide: • An overview of the activities undertaken to communicate details of the scheme, designed to encourage key stakeholders and the local community to engage with the project team on the proposals. • Details of the feedback received during the pre-application engagement. • Details of how the feedback received has informed the final planning application. 1.2 Overview of the scheme Context 1.2.1 The areas surrounding St Austell and the A30 are experiencing a progressively ageing population, resulting in skills shortages which in turn are acting as a barrier to inward investment. This, teamed with the relative remoteness and lack of access to the area, means that it lags behind other areas in Cornwall in terms of its economic development. 1.2.2 By creating improved road connections to other Cornish towns, mid-Cornwall’s existing and new employment sites and the rest of the UK the scheme presents an opportunity to address these socioeconomic problems. 1.2.3 The scheme will also provide traffic relief to Roche and Bugle and other nearby villages, including a reduction in the number of Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) through these villages. The scheme aims to make journeys safer, quicker and more reliable, as well as improving the quality of local life and supporting regional economic growth. The scheme 1.2.4 The scheme consists of 3.85 miles (6.2km) of new single carriageway with 4.3 miles (692km) of off-road cycle paths and bridleways and a further 1 mile (1.61km) of new footpath. This will replace the B3274 from Stenalees to Trezaise and then form a bypass around Roche linking to the old A30 west of Victoria. The scheme will also include: a. A high quality, single carriageway link road from Stenalees to Victoria, with associated footpaths, bridleways and cycle paths for improved non-motorised user facilities. b. A replacement roundabout at Stenalees between the new link road, Stannary Road (A391), and B3274 (Singlerose roundabout). St Austell to A30 Link 4 Statement of Community Involvement c. A new access road between Stannary Road (A391) and Roche Road (the existing B3274) in Stenalees. d. An improved access to the Blockworks site at Hensbarrow Downs (Blockworks junction). e. An agricultural underpass providing access under the new link road between Hensbarrow Downs and Tresayes Downs. f. A new roundabout to the south west of Trezaise, providing access from the new link road to Trezaise and reconfigured access via Coldvreath to the C0298 to Whitemoor and Hensbarrow Downs (Trezaise roundabout). g. An agricultural underpass providing access under the new link road to the west of Roche. h. A new roundabout to the west of Roche between the new link road, Harmony Road, and the C0065 to Whitemoor and the unclassified road U6114 to Tregoss (Harmony Road roundabout). i. A new roundabout to the north west of Roche between the new link road, Edgcumbe Road (the existing B3274), and the old A30 (currently the C0120, Tregoss roundabout). 1.2.5 Figure 1.1 below shows the scheme in full. Figure 1.1: The scheme St Austell to A30 Link 5 Statement of Community Involvement 1.3 Approach to engagement 1.3.1 Cornwall Council is committed to a pro-active approach to engagement around all proposed development projects and believe that better proposals can be produced by involving interested parties at the pre-application