Our November 2025 Meeting Report
The bulk of the November Altarnun Parish Council meeting was spent receiving reports from Cornwall Councillor Adrian Parsons and Altarnun Councillor Matthew Halls who attended a meeting of the Cornwall Council led A30 Plusha grade separated junction study – stakeholder working group on 22nd October. These revealed that several development and feasibility design options to improve road safety, whilst maintaining connectivity, have now been created along the route from Five Lanes to Two Bridges in the east. In a nutshell, it was stressed that whilst everything is still on the table, this a study by local government with strong stakeholder involvement, with the eventual aim of going back to National Highways with a very strong recommendation for the correct and most effective solution for the long term benefit of our communities. Altarnun Parish Council will respond to the merits and demerits of each design option in due course. Cornwall Council have advised that there will be future opportunities to input on the preferred option(s) when they have moved towards the conclusion of technical findings, probably being in the New Year.
Once again planning applications were thin on the ground, although decisions from prior applications on which the council was invited to comment upon were reported. Those approved at Cornwall Council were for a recycling facility at Trebant Farm to take soils and other inert construction and demolition materials and then produce soil substitutes, aggregates and associated building materials. Also approved was the conversion of a barn adjacent to Cobblestones at Trethinna Hill to a self build dwelling, works to the grade 2 listed Carne Manor Cottage including to the roof, windows and doors, a retrospective application for the conversion of a barn to a dwelling with the addition of a door at Tredaule Manor Farm and finally some non material amendments to an application dating back to 2023 for a residential build at Tor View Farm. With regard to all of these case, the parish council either supported or advised Cornwall Council it had no objection to the proposals.
It was pleasing to hear that the Remembrance Day services at Bolventor and Altarnun were well attended, with 15 people at Bolventor and approximately 60 in Altarnun, where the War Memorial railings had been repaired, prior to the service, following a vehicle collision. The Parish Council wreaths were laid at both services as usual.
Please attend our next meeting to be held on Wednesday 3rd December and will start at 7.30pm in Altarnun Village Hall. All are welcome.