Drop-in sessions to help inform new long-term plan

Senior council members said they were "calling on people to help us shape the rules of local planning"

Residents are being invited to share their views on the development of Cornwall Council's new long-term plan.

The authority said a series of drop-in events, held across the county over five months from October, would let residents share their opinions on things important to them about where they lived, and voice any changes they would like over a 20-year period.

The current Cornwall Local Plan, adopted in 2016, covers from 2010 up to 2030.

The new plan, from 2030 to 2025, would set out what could be built and where, as well as specifying rules on everything that made up a place, from what to protect and how buildings were designed, to how people got around, officials said.

The completed plan was to include proposals for housing, employment space, retail areas, town centres, business and industrial parks, energy generation, new schools, health and community facilities, transport, and green infrastructure such as parks, local wildlife areas and woodlands, officials said.

It also needed to consider how Cornwall responded to an increasing and ageing population and climate change, supporting nature recovery and levelling up economic opportunity, they added.

Sarah Preece, the council's cabinet member for planning, said: "These sessions are just the beginning of a series of conversations we will be having with different people and organisations across Cornwall over the coming months as our work on preparing the plan progresses.

"We are calling on people to help us shape the rules of local planning as we build a plan for what Cornwall can become."

Details about the times and locations of the sessions were available online.