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Community engagement survey.
To begin, we needed to decide what Liskeard’s neighbourhood plan should cover. There are a range of options and it makes sense to concentrate on those which local people care most about.
A questionnaire was created that was our community’s opportunity to tell us what areas you think should be in the plan. We’ll used all the responses to decide the areas to include. Then we started detailed work on the priority areas and the result of that will shortly be know.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
In the meantime, if you wish to comment or contribute ideas, please use the comment form under ‘Leave a Reply’ below.
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We should have a pound shop,a cinema and a proper leisure centre with ten pin bowling and stuff
Thanks David, I’ll make sure your comments are included in our assessment of all the comments received during the current community engagement sessions.
Steve BF
Its about time Liskeard tried to gain interest in the larger chain shops/stores. If you go to Bodmin you will see a range of larger chains eg Dorothy Perkins, Iceland etc. At the moment we have nowhere for the teenagers to shop for clothes and shoes. I agree with David we need a site for the kids to hang out, bowling, cinema, arcade game venue or KFC even. Please Liskeard come back to life 🙁 I have lived her all my life (now in my late 40’s) and I want to see the town thriving again. The parking needs reviewing as its too high to encourage footfall in the town.
Hi, thanks for your comments. I will make sure they go to the Neighbourhood Plan Team. We will be coming forward with ideas for the town centre this coming autumn, and your views on them will be welcome, so please keep an eye on the website and press for announcements. Steve
I agree with the main themes, employment to bring money into the town.
Open spaces a town needs parks somewhere to walk and for picnicking, I like idea to keeping Roundbury and the large heritage area north of the town. Please ensure we keep to the development boundary at lest to 2030.
Leisure is also an important priority modern theater/cinema with small eating places open in the evening in the town center. One of the cattle market plans looked good.
What facilities are there for disabled children? Any clubs or social events or a place to meet? Any sensory gardens or soft play areas available? Any projects that families can take part in such as a community market garden or community orchard?
Can you confirm that any new social housing will be used for local people in Cornwall only and not seek in outsiders like the far end of Allen vale. as we do not have the infrastructure in and around Liskeard for more outsiders we have enough living on the streets they should be first.
Hello Robert, thanks for your comment.
The Neighbourhood Plan doesn’t actually require any new housing land – that requirement is in Cornwall Council’s Local Plan. The Liskeard Neighbourhood Plan – prepared by people in Liskeard for Liskeard – says that if we must have additional housing, it should be provided on brownfield land rather than taking more countryside, and that we should have more infrastructure to support the growing community.
However, the new sites going forward under the Cornwall Plan will include social housing. This will usually be in the form of rented housing provided either by a Registered Provider, (such as a Housing Association) or Cornwall Council, and would normally be managed under the Cornwall Council ‘HomeChoice’ Housing Allocation rules which are intended to ensure that homes go to those with a strong connection to Cornwall and who are in the greatest housing need. So, for the majority of homes available through HomeChoice, applicants will need to have at least a 3-year connection to Cornwall to be allocated a property. Similar qualifications apply to parish connections too.
For each development by Registered Providers within the Cornwall Homechoice partnership, Cornwall Council will usually have a high level of ‘nomination rights’, but each Provider also has their own allocation policy, which sets out who will qualify for a property they own and to which the Council do not have a nomination right. It is under this provision that occupiers from outside Cornwall may sometimes be accepted. That is unusual though.
Social Housing developments are usually also restricted by a legal agreement, known as a ‘Section 106 agreement’ that says that they can only be occupied in the first instance by local people.
In combination, the lettings policy and the Section 106 agreement mean that nearly all social housing goes to people with a local connection, and that is certainly the situation we expect Cornwall Council to stick with for Liskeard
I hope that helps explain the position. Please do come and vote on the Neighbourhood Plan on the 25th October.
Regards
Steve
Thank you for your reply if social housing goes to local people as you say why did the end of Allen vale have people from Birmingham who I might add are on benefits who were brought in under the cover of darkness. and that was them telling some of us
Hello again, I have had a look at the planning permission (PA16/01434) using the CC online register, and I can see that 24 of the 40 dwellings are covered by HomeChoice, and are subject to a S106 legal agreement that says they have to go to persons with local connections with the town or county, and that persons from the town shall take priority. The only exemption to this is for people who are in, or have recently left, HM Armed Forces. Ocean Housing must follow that agreement so it is hard to see how people from outside Cornwall could occupy one of the dwellings and be compliant with it unless they have a local connection. If you think that the legal agreement is being abused then you could complain to Cornwall Council, or speak to your local CC Councillor.
Please note that the Liskeard Neighbourhood Plan is different to the Cornwall Local Plan, as it was prepared by people in Liskeard for Liskeard. The Liskeard Plan says that if we must have additional housing, it should be provided on brownfield land rather than taking more countryside, and that we should have more infrastructure to support the growing community.It also says that Policy 9 of the Cornwall Local Plan, which allows for affordable led housing exception sites outside but adjacent to the existing built up areas of smaller towns, villages and hamlets, will no longer apply to Liskeard. Please do come and vote on the Neighbourhood Plan in the Referendum on the 25th October.
Regards
Steve