Councillor Sue James’ Blog
Information from Police and other reliable sources will be placed in this blog regarding local disruption to accommodate the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay. Whilst the summit is at Carbis Bay hotel, the disruption is widespread and I’m tempted to think staying home and catching up with all those jobs we put off might beRead More »
Your chance to comment on Cornwall Garden Services ideas to relocate to Leswidden, before they finalise and submit a fresh planning application. As a Cornwall Councillor, I would not normally get involved in pre planning stages or get myself in any way associated with active planning applications. So, why have I decided to do soRead More »
Your Election Choices for Land’s End Division for Cornwall Council but no election for St Just Town Council as not enough people have put themselves forward to prompt an election; that means those of us that stepped forward to be your candidates automatically become your Town Councillors! Obviously I am supporting Chris Denley, who IRead More »
Natural England are starting the process to declare Penwith Moors a Site of Special Scientific Interest (an SSSI), to protect and enhance its special features and habitats. If this does happen, it will neither increase nor decrease access to the moors, unless there was a threat to specific habitats where footfall needed to be guidedRead More »
Cornwall being short changed by this Tory Government and we are asking them to review our position in the levelling up funding recently announced. You too could write to ask your M.P why we are not in the top tier, along with Northern areas, when the evidence is clear that Cornwall has been under-funder forRead More »
At our last full council meeting, I asked the relevant Cabinet Member whether there was any truth in the reports that Richard Branson was bringing his space tourism to Cornwall? I was happy with the reply of “no” and that if in the future it was being considered, a vote in Full Council would beRead More »
Could you become a Town Councillor, is a question we need people to start asking themselves and each other? I joined St Just Town Council back in November 2007, when there was a by-election. In 2013 I became your local Cornwall Councillor but I did not seek re-election to Town Council that year and thatRead More »
Many ways to become a postal voter in Cornwall so, do not risk being left out of the choice of your local Councillor, if you decide, come May 6th, that you do not fancy going to the local polling station, even though you can take your own pen/ pencil. Postal votes Many people, particularly thoseRead More »
Cornwall Council Business Plan & Budget 21/22 and beyond is to be put to Full Council on Tuesday. Always a strange thing to make plans at the end of a 4 year cycle because if voters completely change the Political make up of the Council, this can very quickly be torn up and a newRead More »
Is COVID being used to interfere with Democracy? On the 22nd January, Lisa Smart, the Chair of the Liberal Democrats Federal Campaigns and Elections Committee wrote to regional and local chairs saying: “This afternoon we received a letter from the Tory constitution minister, saying that the Government is changing the rules to make political leafletingRead More »
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