The Falmouth Visitor Information Centre (VIC) This is now open and operating successfully. This replaced the former Tourist Information Centre.
350th Anniversary of the Falmouth Charter
5 October is ‘Falmouth Day’ – the 350th anniversary of the granting of the Charter which created the town of Falmouth. An ambitious programme of activities is planned (see www.falmouth,co.uk). The Falmouth Art Gallery, the Poly and the Maritime Museum were all planning associated exhibitions. The Forum is contributing a new version of the Charter: something aspirational for the next 50 years.
Seaside Towns funding
The bid for £75k from the Seaside Town scheme has been produced by the BID with help from Cornwall Marine Network and others. The proposal will involve new signage and visitor management schemes in the two towns. The result of the bid will be known in late October. The Forum has contributed its ‘signage’ reserve of £3k towards this project.
Port Masterplan
The Masterplan has been approved by Cornwall Council Cabinet and work is going ahead on the development of bids for Convergence funding. There is some urgency here as the Convergence window of opportunity is closing.
As far as dredging is concerned, active lobbying was continuing. The recent announcements about marine conservation areas appeared restrictive with a ‘reference’ area having been unexpectedly identified for the St Mawes bank. A test project on the re-location of marl would be carried out shortly.
A second project is emerging: to do a similar, but simpler, study on the rest of the Penryn river, to assess the strategy for the water and adjoining land usage. This will be funded by Convergence. A project team is meeting on 29 September to work out a brief.
Connecting Cornwall 2011 – 2105 Implementation Plan
The CC Transport Department has published the Implementation Plan for the next five years. No major schemes are planned for Falmouth and Penryn but there may be elements hidden away in the ‘general’ categories. CC has promised an analysis of the projects associated with the two towns.
Falmouth and Penryn, have been selected as one of two a ‘Cycling Demonstration Towns’ in the county. This was something of a surprise since the Forum’s response to the consultation had pointed out the cycling-unfriendliness (steepness) of the hills. We await further details.
Church Street car park
The land under the car park is contaminated which is a significant barrier to re-development.
The results of the survey carried out by CC into the usage and attitudes towards this car park are still awaited (promised for November 2010). A separate proposal for a partial re-landscaping and re-arrangement of the car park with associated pricing changes at the Quarry, was welcomed. It suggested that a walkway could be created for the loss of only about a dozen spaces and recommended a pay-on-exit scheme. Its proponents were encouraged to be bold in their ambitions. The ideas would be going before the Falmouth Town Council to encourage them to adopt them as policy.
Local Development Framework
There had been much fuss in the newspapers recently about the ‘possibility’ that 4,000 new houses were to ‘be imposed’ on Falmouth and development would start with the pitch and putt course. Much of this coverage had been ill-informed and inaccurate.
CC Planners have been looking at possible expansion spaces around the town, for all sorts of uses: houses, schools, industry etc. In a careful study, they had identified a series of areas and looked at these from the point of view of such things as visual impact, accessibility, land usage, topography etc. Unfortunately discussions at the FTC Planning committee had brought this work into the public domain without any associated explanation.
A public consultation on the expansion options for the towns would take place in November. There are some who believe that expansion of the towns is inevitable given the need for housing (especially affordable)and the planned expansion of the university; others who refuse to accept this. The difficulty as always, will be in finding suitable sites which do not offend local sensitivities.
Discussions at a national level may influence this work. A revision of existing planning legislation will embody an ‘assumption in favour of development’. It will be interesting to see how this will impact the work of the Framework.
Meanwhile, the Civic Society was considering a revised version of Falmouth by Design, to help improve the quality of developments in the town.
Localism
CC has said that Falmouth is ‘not in the first wave’ for devolution of responsibility from CC to local bodies. The messages emerging from County Hall were very mixed. It was by no means clear whether devolution was simply a cost-cutting exercise, a shrugging-off of responsibility or a genuine desire to let go and allow local groups to run things themselves. It would be helpful if such questions could be clarified.
Locally, there was a considerable appetite to run everything, especially car parking, while the Town Council was focusing on management of its own building. Penryn was seeking to take back management of its own port.
The Sainsbury’s development
It appears that Sainsbury’s might be persuaded to make a significant ‘community benefit’ contribution to the town as part of a Section 106 agreement for the development of the site at Ponsharden. One estimate is that trade in the main street could drop by as much as 7% as a result of the new store.
FTC has already drawn up a list and is in discussion with CC Planning Control about possible projects. This list includes one-off expenditures, support for community projects and support for individual posts. The need for the money to be spent sustainably was emphasised with a possible model being an annual contribution based on something like the usage of car parking spaces alongside the superstore.
The Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
The LEP had been tasked with developing a single Economic Strategy for Cornwall. This was now the focus of their work. They were also convening a business stakeholder group.
Education developments
Falmouth Marine School had just spent £200k on refurbishments and had around 300 students aged 16-18, 50% of them coming from outside the county. They were developing their research threads with the aim of working towards HE accreditation.
The CUC building developments were advancing well with the Tremough Innovation Centre (TIC) and the Academy for Innovation and Research (AIR) due for opening in Spring 2012. Tremough has also been spending money on re-painting and reviving its existing buildings. There are now some 4,000 students at Tremough and 800 at Wood Lane (UCF).
Shorts
The Falmouth Progress School was designed for small businesses, offering 2 hours a month self-directed business-helps-business support. More details from Andy Coote.
Falmouth Business Breakfasts take place every Thursday at 07:30. £8 a head for a cracking breakfast and inspiring speaker
Source FM is now back on FM 96.1 and covers local business matters every Friday morning between 08:00 and 09:00
The Trescobeas play site re-opens on Saturday 17 September at midday.
Those attending the meeting:
Mike Reynolds – A&P Docks
Sally Stiles – Falmouth Age Concern
Paul Wickes - Cornwall Marine Network
Dick Stiles - Civic Society
Richard Wilcox - Falmouth BID
Andy Coote - Falmouth Business Club
Jeremy Edwards - Falmouth Chamber of Commerce
John Langan – Falmouth Harbour Commissioners
David Stedman – Falmouth Marine School
Oliver Cramp – Falmouth Town Council
Mark Williams - Falmouth Town Council
Richard Gates – Falmouth Town Manager
Jonathan Griffin – National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Chairman)
Mike Jenks – Royal Cornwall Polytechnic
John Bottomley – Transport Working Group
Jilly Easterby – UCF, University of Exeter and TCSG
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Meeting - July 2011
Localism Bill
Ray Tovey, Cabinet member for Localism at Cornwall Councillor joined the meeting to discuss the Localism Bill and its implications for Cornwall and Falmouth. Ray is well known to Falmouth and Penryn, having written the Community Plan.
The Bill will provide a mechanism for decentralisation and will encourage the devolution of activities to local town and parish councils as well as, potentially, to the private sector or not-for-profit operations. It would also challenge the Council on its structures and working methods including things like the Cabinet structure and the Community Network structure.
The process of transfer would require a major culture change at the Council. For a start, it would require a joined-up approach to areas, rather than a functional one and the whole tone of voice would have to change form parent-child to partnership working. The Council would be initiating discussions and working with local partners to improve their bids to the stage at which responsibilities could be devolved.
There are some 213 parish and town councils in the county. The Localism team could not engage with all of them at once and so they were working with 4 towns or parishes, piloting Neighbourhood Development schemes and another 10 pilot projects. The next stage would be place-based budgeting in order to assist these discussions.
There was a range of concerns. Would this lead to increased bureaucracy with agreements being bogged down in minutiae? Each agreement would be used as a template for others, to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Would there be consistency between different places? There would be no one-size fits all philosophy. Would local parishes be responsible for planning? Only at a strategic level. The decisions would still lie with the formal planning authority.
As far as Falmouth was concerned, the existence of the Community Plan clearly made a big difference. A ‘shopping list’ had been assembled a year or so ago. The Town Council had given priority to the transfer of the Town Hall and discussions seemed to have drifted from there. There was therefore disappointment that, despite the early initiative, Falmouth had not been included in the first wave of pilot schemes. This raised questions about the quality of communication about the opportunity.
Two other schemes were Prince of Wales Pier which was seen as a liability by the Council but an asset locally and could be a good and very visible quick win. Or Church street Car Park, another intractable problem, could be transferred to a a Community Interest Company (CIC).
Ray emphasised the desire of the Council to work with the Town Council or other partners and suggested that Falmouth was well-positioned to capitalise on the opportunity. He emphasised that the Bill has not yet been enacted and the exact meaning and consequence were yet to become clear. He would circulate a layman’s guide to the Bill.
He was thanked for his openness and clarity.
Port of Falmouth Masterplan
This has been published and has been endorsed by the Council’s Cabinet. A new Port Masterplan Delivery Partnership was now in place to make things happen, chaired by Mike Varney.
Tourist Information Centre
Following protracted discussions, the building would now become the Fal River Visitor Information Centre, opening on 1 August and running throughout the year. Staff were being recruited.
350th anniversary of the Falmouth Charter
Chris Smith had produced a first draft of some headings for a new 50 year Charter. A working group would be convening to finalise these.
Fal Energy Plan
Three students from Exeter University were working on collating data on current energy and transport consumption and the potential for generating renewable energy. They are aiming to produce a report in early October which would be incorporated in the Charter celebrations. The Forum was pleased to be engaged as a partner in this work.
Over the period 24 September to the end of October, we would all be encouraged to record the amount of human energy that went into cycling, rowing, walking etc as a measure of the human contribution to add to the recorded consumption of energy.
BID Update
This had been circulated in advance. The ‘Save the High Street’ campaign was getting good coverage, emphasising the problems of car parking, business rates, VAT and out-of-town developments.
The Visitor hospitality/signage project was something included in the original bidding document. The team was putting together a bid to the Coastal Towns Fund (which contained £400k) for money to support this, including money from the Forum’s account which had been earmarked for signage several years ago. The new map boards were examples of the team’s existing work.
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
The LEP had now appointed its Chairman (Chris Pomfret) and Board. It was, as yet, unclear what the LEP would be doing as consultations were still taking place. Cornwall Marine Network had been commissioned to bid for money to help the LEP to engage with businesses. The Forum was in touch with the LEP administration with a view to a joint meeting of the Mayors’ Regeneration Group and the LEP, probably sometime in September.
Cornwall Council
Scott Sharples was moving on to new projects and Charlotte Chadwick was taking over as our Community Network Manager. She would be working two days a week on our network and two days on her existing Helston network.
Transport matters
There was still no news on the outstanding transport issues – traffic in the main street, Church Street Car Park, Car Parking policy and the local Transport Plan - although the Council’s Transport Department had promised to send someone along to the next meeting of the Regeneration Group.
Business development
A successful event had been held on 19 May which had brought together local businesses to look at the opportunities offered by three main initiatives: the developments at Tremough, superfast broadband and the Port Masterplan. Further such events were being planned including the possibility of a business accelerator scheme.
A regular slot on Source Radio was commended to all: 8:00 – 9:00 on Fridays.
A recent project by some tourism students from Plymouth university had produced no useful outcomes.
Those attending the meeting:
Ray Tovey - Cornwall Council Cabinet Member
Sally Stiles - Age Concern
Mike Varney - Cornwall Council
Paul Wickes - Cornwall Marine Network
Anne Bright - Churches Together
Dick Stiles - Civic Society
Tim Light – Fal River Links
David Pollard – Falmouth Ambassadors
Nigel Carpenter - Falmouth BID
Richard Wilcox - Falmouth BID
Andy Coote - Falmouth Business Club
Jeremy Edwards - Falmouth Chamber of Commerce
Oliver Cramp – Falmouth Town Council
Mark Williams - Falmouth Town Council
Jackie George – Falmouth Watersports
Jonathan Griffin – National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Chairman)
Lorely Lloyd - Transition Falmouth
Jilly Easterby – UCF & the University of Exeter
Ray Tovey, Cabinet member for Localism at Cornwall Councillor joined the meeting to discuss the Localism Bill and its implications for Cornwall and Falmouth. Ray is well known to Falmouth and Penryn, having written the Community Plan.
The Bill will provide a mechanism for decentralisation and will encourage the devolution of activities to local town and parish councils as well as, potentially, to the private sector or not-for-profit operations. It would also challenge the Council on its structures and working methods including things like the Cabinet structure and the Community Network structure.
The process of transfer would require a major culture change at the Council. For a start, it would require a joined-up approach to areas, rather than a functional one and the whole tone of voice would have to change form parent-child to partnership working. The Council would be initiating discussions and working with local partners to improve their bids to the stage at which responsibilities could be devolved.
There are some 213 parish and town councils in the county. The Localism team could not engage with all of them at once and so they were working with 4 towns or parishes, piloting Neighbourhood Development schemes and another 10 pilot projects. The next stage would be place-based budgeting in order to assist these discussions.
There was a range of concerns. Would this lead to increased bureaucracy with agreements being bogged down in minutiae? Each agreement would be used as a template for others, to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Would there be consistency between different places? There would be no one-size fits all philosophy. Would local parishes be responsible for planning? Only at a strategic level. The decisions would still lie with the formal planning authority.
As far as Falmouth was concerned, the existence of the Community Plan clearly made a big difference. A ‘shopping list’ had been assembled a year or so ago. The Town Council had given priority to the transfer of the Town Hall and discussions seemed to have drifted from there. There was therefore disappointment that, despite the early initiative, Falmouth had not been included in the first wave of pilot schemes. This raised questions about the quality of communication about the opportunity.
Two other schemes were Prince of Wales Pier which was seen as a liability by the Council but an asset locally and could be a good and very visible quick win. Or Church street Car Park, another intractable problem, could be transferred to a a Community Interest Company (CIC).
Ray emphasised the desire of the Council to work with the Town Council or other partners and suggested that Falmouth was well-positioned to capitalise on the opportunity. He emphasised that the Bill has not yet been enacted and the exact meaning and consequence were yet to become clear. He would circulate a layman’s guide to the Bill.
He was thanked for his openness and clarity.
Port of Falmouth Masterplan
This has been published and has been endorsed by the Council’s Cabinet. A new Port Masterplan Delivery Partnership was now in place to make things happen, chaired by Mike Varney.
Tourist Information Centre
Following protracted discussions, the building would now become the Fal River Visitor Information Centre, opening on 1 August and running throughout the year. Staff were being recruited.
350th anniversary of the Falmouth Charter
Chris Smith had produced a first draft of some headings for a new 50 year Charter. A working group would be convening to finalise these.
Fal Energy Plan
Three students from Exeter University were working on collating data on current energy and transport consumption and the potential for generating renewable energy. They are aiming to produce a report in early October which would be incorporated in the Charter celebrations. The Forum was pleased to be engaged as a partner in this work.
Over the period 24 September to the end of October, we would all be encouraged to record the amount of human energy that went into cycling, rowing, walking etc as a measure of the human contribution to add to the recorded consumption of energy.
BID Update
This had been circulated in advance. The ‘Save the High Street’ campaign was getting good coverage, emphasising the problems of car parking, business rates, VAT and out-of-town developments.
The Visitor hospitality/signage project was something included in the original bidding document. The team was putting together a bid to the Coastal Towns Fund (which contained £400k) for money to support this, including money from the Forum’s account which had been earmarked for signage several years ago. The new map boards were examples of the team’s existing work.
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
The LEP had now appointed its Chairman (Chris Pomfret) and Board. It was, as yet, unclear what the LEP would be doing as consultations were still taking place. Cornwall Marine Network had been commissioned to bid for money to help the LEP to engage with businesses. The Forum was in touch with the LEP administration with a view to a joint meeting of the Mayors’ Regeneration Group and the LEP, probably sometime in September.
Cornwall Council
Scott Sharples was moving on to new projects and Charlotte Chadwick was taking over as our Community Network Manager. She would be working two days a week on our network and two days on her existing Helston network.
Transport matters
There was still no news on the outstanding transport issues – traffic in the main street, Church Street Car Park, Car Parking policy and the local Transport Plan - although the Council’s Transport Department had promised to send someone along to the next meeting of the Regeneration Group.
Business development
A successful event had been held on 19 May which had brought together local businesses to look at the opportunities offered by three main initiatives: the developments at Tremough, superfast broadband and the Port Masterplan. Further such events were being planned including the possibility of a business accelerator scheme.
A regular slot on Source Radio was commended to all: 8:00 – 9:00 on Fridays.
A recent project by some tourism students from Plymouth university had produced no useful outcomes.
Those attending the meeting:
Ray Tovey - Cornwall Council Cabinet Member
Sally Stiles - Age Concern
Mike Varney - Cornwall Council
Paul Wickes - Cornwall Marine Network
Anne Bright - Churches Together
Dick Stiles - Civic Society
Tim Light – Fal River Links
David Pollard – Falmouth Ambassadors
Nigel Carpenter - Falmouth BID
Richard Wilcox - Falmouth BID
Andy Coote - Falmouth Business Club
Jeremy Edwards - Falmouth Chamber of Commerce
Oliver Cramp – Falmouth Town Council
Mark Williams - Falmouth Town Council
Jackie George – Falmouth Watersports
Jonathan Griffin – National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Chairman)
Lorely Lloyd - Transition Falmouth
Jilly Easterby – UCF & the University of Exeter
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Meeting - May 2011
Town Framework Study
A small group has been working with Cornwall Council planners on the Town Framework Study. This identifies areas for expansion of the two towns based on criteria such as available land, access to transport links, schools, neighbourhood centres and landscape issues. Most of the sites idnetified are in the halo around the towns. This is due to go out to consultation in June and will inform planning policy.
Port of Falmouth Master Plan
The consultation was now over and had proved informative. There were few major surprises but there were some issues still to resolve. The partners are now working on their final proposals which will be completed by 19 June and will go CC Cabinet in July for endorsement.
All we need now is permission to dredge even though there were many other projects in the Docks would be going ahead anyway.
Cruise ships
A very successful cruise ship visit had taken place on 7 May: 3,000 passengers who were delivered by shuttle boats to the town. A record 31 tour coaches were used. The Ambassadors were appreciative of the help of the BID and other partners. If only she had been able to moor alongside ...
Future of the Tourist Information Centre
This had now closed although it wa sunderstood that a post-midnight attempt was still being made to re-open it. A private sector alternative might yet emerge. The discussions around its closure had been confused, slow and drawn out which had not helped a smooth transfer to a new model.
Traffic in the main street
There has been no further progress on discussions with CC about partial closure of Church Street Car Park. Their traffic survey started in Augsut 2010 was still too secret to be discussed or even shared with anyone in the town. It was highly likely, therefore, that another summer season would go by without any meaningful discussions or experiment of alternative traffic management.
The CC report on contamination has also not been published or, apparently, acted upon.
The BID team and Town Manager were discussing a number of ideas to encourage greater use of the town for shopping, including possibly paying to open all the car parks free of charge for a series of key days.
Town issues
Much work was being done by the BID team and Town Manager on:
Twelve Cornish towns have been invited to bid for money from a joint government/CC fund of £400k which is available to support a range of improvements. It was agreed that the BID team was ideally suited to lead this. Possible matching money might be obtained from other sources such as Convergence. Expressions of interest are due by 29 July.
350 Anniversary of Falmouth Charter
Work is progressing on a programme to celebrate this event which would be officially launched, along with a suitable beer, on Monday 16 May. The bid to the HLF had failed on a technicality but was being revived.
The Forum was committed to helping develop a vision for the next ten years and Chris Smith would be leading on this.
BIDs on the Industrial Estates
The idea of developing BIDs on the industrial estates had been dropped because the business case did not look sound. Instead, a proposal for another piece of work looking at the rest of the waterfront in the Port area (including all the Penryn river), coupled to the industrial estates, in order to highlight opportunities and develop a strategy.
Connecting Cornwall 2010 - Local Transport Plan
The Forum had responded to the consultation on the Implementation Plan. A final version of the Plan had not been published and it was thus unclear what was being planned in Falmouth over the coming three years. Rumours were that the outstanding road repairs in Arwennack Street were to be started 'soon'.
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
The Forum had responded to the consultation about the Falmouth MRCC and had received a long, if tangential reply.
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
Chris Pomfret had been appointed as chairman. It was expected that the other directors would be named soon. There would be six appointees from CC and seven private sector ones.
Cornwall Council
CC is going through another re-organisation into a series of Arms Length Organisations (ALMOs), allowing the Council to be a more strategic body. Over £1bn of planning applications were being discussed which suggested that investments were still being made.
In brief:
Mike Varney - Cornwall Council
Scott Sharples - Cornwall Council
Dick Stiles - Civic Society
Tim Light – Fal River Links
David Pollard – Falmouth Ambassadors
Richard Gates - Falmouth Town Manager
Malcolm Farrar - Falmouth Chamber of Commerce
Shaun Davie – Falmouth and District Hotels Association
John Langan - Falmouth Harbour Commissioners
David Stedman - Falmouth Marine School
Oliver Cramp – Falmouth Town Council
Jackie George – Falmouth Watersports
Jonathan Griffin – National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Chairman)
Michael Jenks - RCPS (The Poly)
Nigel Druce - Rotary
Lorely Lloyd - Transition Falmouth
Jilly Easterby – UCF & the University of Exeter
A small group has been working with Cornwall Council planners on the Town Framework Study. This identifies areas for expansion of the two towns based on criteria such as available land, access to transport links, schools, neighbourhood centres and landscape issues. Most of the sites idnetified are in the halo around the towns. This is due to go out to consultation in June and will inform planning policy.
Port of Falmouth Master Plan
The consultation was now over and had proved informative. There were few major surprises but there were some issues still to resolve. The partners are now working on their final proposals which will be completed by 19 June and will go CC Cabinet in July for endorsement.
All we need now is permission to dredge even though there were many other projects in the Docks would be going ahead anyway.
Cruise ships
A very successful cruise ship visit had taken place on 7 May: 3,000 passengers who were delivered by shuttle boats to the town. A record 31 tour coaches were used. The Ambassadors were appreciative of the help of the BID and other partners. If only she had been able to moor alongside ...
Future of the Tourist Information Centre
This had now closed although it wa sunderstood that a post-midnight attempt was still being made to re-open it. A private sector alternative might yet emerge. The discussions around its closure had been confused, slow and drawn out which had not helped a smooth transfer to a new model.
Traffic in the main street
There has been no further progress on discussions with CC about partial closure of Church Street Car Park. Their traffic survey started in Augsut 2010 was still too secret to be discussed or even shared with anyone in the town. It was highly likely, therefore, that another summer season would go by without any meaningful discussions or experiment of alternative traffic management.
The CC report on contamination has also not been published or, apparently, acted upon.
The BID team and Town Manager were discussing a number of ideas to encourage greater use of the town for shopping, including possibly paying to open all the car parks free of charge for a series of key days.
Town issues
Much work was being done by the BID team and Town Manager on:
- Dressing the town with flags and baskets
- Producing a new version of the map and a poster of the major events
- A full range of festivals was planned for the year (see the Falmouth website for details)
- A new shopper bag
- A new bench to be sited in the Market Strand area
- Public relations
Twelve Cornish towns have been invited to bid for money from a joint government/CC fund of £400k which is available to support a range of improvements. It was agreed that the BID team was ideally suited to lead this. Possible matching money might be obtained from other sources such as Convergence. Expressions of interest are due by 29 July.
350 Anniversary of Falmouth Charter
Work is progressing on a programme to celebrate this event which would be officially launched, along with a suitable beer, on Monday 16 May. The bid to the HLF had failed on a technicality but was being revived.
The Forum was committed to helping develop a vision for the next ten years and Chris Smith would be leading on this.
BIDs on the Industrial Estates
The idea of developing BIDs on the industrial estates had been dropped because the business case did not look sound. Instead, a proposal for another piece of work looking at the rest of the waterfront in the Port area (including all the Penryn river), coupled to the industrial estates, in order to highlight opportunities and develop a strategy.
Connecting Cornwall 2010 - Local Transport Plan
The Forum had responded to the consultation on the Implementation Plan. A final version of the Plan had not been published and it was thus unclear what was being planned in Falmouth over the coming three years. Rumours were that the outstanding road repairs in Arwennack Street were to be started 'soon'.
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
The Forum had responded to the consultation about the Falmouth MRCC and had received a long, if tangential reply.
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
Chris Pomfret had been appointed as chairman. It was expected that the other directors would be named soon. There would be six appointees from CC and seven private sector ones.
Cornwall Council
CC is going through another re-organisation into a series of Arms Length Organisations (ALMOs), allowing the Council to be a more strategic body. Over £1bn of planning applications were being discussed which suggested that investments were still being made.
In brief:
- The Community Alive event would be held in the Poly on 21 May. More details
- The Tremough Culture Festival would also be happening on 21 May More details
- Following cuts in their budgets, Falmouth Befriending were looking to raise £20,000 a year and needed help, ideas and money More details
- The short version of the Community Plan had been produced and coies were in the post
Mike Varney - Cornwall Council
Scott Sharples - Cornwall Council
Dick Stiles - Civic Society
Tim Light – Fal River Links
David Pollard – Falmouth Ambassadors
Richard Gates - Falmouth Town Manager
Malcolm Farrar - Falmouth Chamber of Commerce
Shaun Davie – Falmouth and District Hotels Association
John Langan - Falmouth Harbour Commissioners
David Stedman - Falmouth Marine School
Oliver Cramp – Falmouth Town Council
Jackie George – Falmouth Watersports
Jonathan Griffin – National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Chairman)
Michael Jenks - RCPS (The Poly)
Nigel Druce - Rotary
Lorely Lloyd - Transition Falmouth
Jilly Easterby – UCF & the University of Exeter
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