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Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Falmouth planning decisions: Felling of rotten tree and rooftop unit at uni building
The latest planning decisions from the Cornwall Council have brought a mix of approvals, rejections, and withdrawals for developments in Falmouth and the surrounding area. Here is a round-up of some of them - from house extension plans to tree pruning. Rooftop unit to be installed at university building A rooftop air handling unit and flue are set to be installed at the Camborne School of Mines in Penryn. The new equipment will aid in the internal refurbishment of the building. Conditional planning permission was granted by Cornwall Council for the development, which is planned to take place at the Tremough Campus of Falmouth University and Exeter University. The application for the installation was submitted on January 14, 2025. The applicant for this project is Ms L Gambardella-Strapp from FXPlus Estates, and the architectural firm Stride Treglown is serving as the agent. The project is exempt from the Community Infrastructure Levy due to its size. National Grid given go-ahead to upgrade power lines National Grid has received permission to upgrade existing overhead power lines. The project will involve adding a new section of an 11kV overhead line to a new transformer, which will then connect to a low-voltage underground cable. This development, taking place at Boswidjack Farm, Constantine, was approved by Cornwall Council, with no objections from Constantine Parish Council. The council confirmed no conditions or modifications were needed for the project. The upgrade, under Section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989, does not require a public inquiry before a decision is reached by the Secretary of State. Application for non-material amendments withdrawn A planning application for non-material amendments to a Falmouth property has been withdrawn. The application, submitted by Mr Reeve of Boscawen Road, proposed modifications including a new air source heat pump, new external wall insulation with a render finish, and changes to existing windows, roof slate, and balcony guarding. The proposed amendments were linked to a prior decision notice dated June 7, 2024. The application, numbered PA25/01310, was managed by Marraum Ltd, a company based in Penryn. Cornwall Council's planning department confirmed the withdrawal of the application on March 20. No further information about the reason for the withdrawal has been disclosed. Application to cut down protected tree in Falmouth withdrawn An application to cut down a sycamore tree in Falmouth has been withdrawn. The tree, located at 2 Kergilliack Cottages, was under a Tree Preservation Order (TPO). The proposal also included lifting the crown of another sycamore to a height of four metres. Cornwall Council confirmed the withdrawal of the application, initially submitted by Mr R Courage. Mr Nigel Bird, of Loggerhedz, acted as the agent for the application. The application, which fell under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, was withdrawn on March 17. No reasons for the withdrawal were disclosed by the council. Rotten tree to be cut Permission has been granted to fell an infected horse chestnut tree under a preservation order. The tree, located at the rear of 8 Prislow Close, Falmouth, was approved for removal by Cornwall Council due to being rotten and infected. The council stipulated that the tree work must be completed within two years from March 19, 2025. The decision was made under application number PA25/01718 and was submitted on March 4, 2025. The applicant, Mr Matthew Rose, has been instructed to plant an apple tree within three metres of the felled tree's stump within two years of its removal.
BBC News
21-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Mining: Cornwall to host international competition
Cornwall has been chosen to host an international mining competition. The 47th International Mining Games is set to take place over two days at the King Edward Mine Museum in Troon, near competition consists of seven events including jackleg drilling, hand drilling and gold Carol Richards said the competition "celebrates Cornwall's mining industry". The museum is due to welcome 45 teams from across the globe including Australia, the USA, Canada and Germany.A Cornish team, consisting of students and alumni from the Camborne School of Mines, will also women's and co-ed competition will take place on Friday 21 March with the men's and alumni competition happening on Saturday 22 March, between 8:00 and 16:00 county previously hosted the event in 2012 at the King Edward Mine. The tournament was created in 1978 in memory of 91 miners who died in the Sunshine Mine disaster in the USA in 1972, the King Edward Mine Museum said it most recently took place in Montana in the USA, in Richards said the museum was "delighted to be hosting the event"She added: "It chimes with our twin aims of celebrating Cornwall's mining industry in ways that increase knowledge and ignite curiosity among people of all ages and backgrounds, and of promoting education in geoscience, geology and mining".Ms Richards said there was "no better place" to spark an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) than at the museum.
BBC News
21-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
EgyptAir plane deaths inquest gets go ahead 9 years after crash
An inquest into the death of a man who was killed along with 65 others in a plane crash is set to finally go ahead - nearly a decade Osman, who grew up in Carmarthen, was on EygptAir flight MS804 when it vanished in May 40-year-old geologist was travelling from Paris to Cairo, where he was due to spend a few days on business, when the plane plunged into the Egyptian authorities said at the time they would not be participating in a UK inquest because of an ongoing criminal inquiry - but the hearing into what happened has now been provisionally set for May. Coroner Mark Layton was told at the pre-inquest hearing in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, on Friday that an expert's report was ready and so the inquest could he said he would avoid the anniversary for the expert will be put in writing ahead of the inquest, which is likely to take three to four hours, the coroner family's solicitor, Peter Neenan, thanked the coroner for his "diligence and hard work" to get to this night-time flight in May 2016 went missing after it entered Greek later emerged that smoke had been detected in the toilet and the avionics area, which contained the aircraft's electronics and computer below the civil aviation accident bureau (BEA) said in July 2018 that "the most likely hypothesis is that a fire broke out in the cockpit".The flight disappeared from Greek radar and the area in which it crashed is one of the deepest in the Mediterranean - more than 3,000m (9,800ft) in some and life jackets were found in the sea 230 miles (370km) south of the Greek island of Osman held a masters from Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall and was a mining company executive for Centamin in Jersey, where he was living with his wife Aureilie and their daughter at the time of his death, having previously worked in Australia and Egypt.
