Visit to Royal British Legion HQ in Truro

Interesting visit. Many ex service people, mostly men, can find themselves homeless. Often down to joining the services because of difficulties at home and then when they come out to civvie street finding it hard to cope. Also the services can make their employees rather dependant and a bit institutionalised. It's then tough to try and cope with life on the outside. Single men are often the ones who become homeless because local councils find it hard to house families and single men are low priority. The RBL try and help these ex veterans with housing.

Super windmills at Carland Cross

Residents of St Newlyn East and Fiddler's Green are annoyed that no public meeting was held by Carrick District Council to outline the ScottishPower application for super turbines at Carland.

ScottishPower want to take down the 15 49 metres windmills and replace it with 10 100 metre super wind turbines. The site size would also be dramatically increased.

The biggest issue for me on this is that the local authority do not seem to have been prepared to allow local residents to air their views. Surely they have a right to ask councillors to listen to their objections at a public site meeting.

I wrote to Carrick Chairman Councillor John Dyer last week to ask him why no meeting with the public had taken place. A large application like this should, in my view, always have a meeting to allow local residents a voice.

Parking problems at Gloweth

A packed public meeting at Gloweth outlined the major problems local residents are having in their street. Students at Truro College and staff and visitors at Treliske Hospital are using the roads in residential estates to park their cars all day.

This is causing havoc in these roads making it difficult for residents and also causing real hazards in the event of emergency vehicles being called out. I used to live in College Way so really understand exactly how annoying this nuisance is. Cars are parked on pavements, front gardens being driven over and little thought given to local householders and children who live there.

The new park and ride costs £1 for the entire day. I would have thought this was the best option for those people who bring their cars into Truro every day. It is really unfair to clog up someone else's road.

When planning permission for these homes was given great care was put into making sure there were parking spaces for each house. The roads are the right width to ensure that cars would have enough room to manoeuvre but all of this is lost at present.

The Gloweth residents Association would like restricted parking ie between 11am and 3pm to stop people parking there all day. There certainly needs to be some action and soon!