Perran Now Has Extra Parking!

The long awaited extra parking is now ready and the Paddock Car Park has opened. Hopefully this will ease the congestion around the village streets in this busy summer tourist season and benefit local residents.

Do pop in and say hello to Peter a car park veteran and a qualified first aid responder. Peter will be supervising the car park for this pilot project.

With thanks to Ben Ridgwell and the Rigewells ltd team, who have done a cracking job, sensitively improving the entrances.

There will be free Blue Badge parking beside the foot entrance and five free spots available each day for local families with children.

We do hope that this will be a success for the village.

Christine and Charles Taylor
Ednovean Farm

Perranuthnoe Residents

On Monday 13th January an impromptu meeting was held in the Victoria Inn regarding village issues (mostly planning, holiday lets and parking). We're aware that word of this meeting did not reach all residents. We agreed that we would set up a communication network for now and maybe look to creating a formal residents' association in the future.

If you would like to receive emailed notifications and summaries of the meeting please email perrancomms@gmail.com with your name and address and we'll add you to the mailing list.

If you don't have an email address please provide your name and address by popping a note into Yvonne's mailbox (at The Lodge) or ask a neighbour to keep you updated!

There will be another meeting on 27th january at 5pm in the Victoria Inn, regarding parking and traffic issues in the village. There are maps available from The Lodge now for you to mark your suggestions.

Note this communication channel is for residents only.

Niki G, Peter L and Sally L

Community meeting

Following the community meeting at the Victoria Inn on the 13th January all who gave their contact details should have received an email summary. If not please check your spam folder. If you would like to be added to the mailing list please contact Peter Linton at perrancomms@gmail.com.

The next meeting will be on Monday 27th January at 5pm in the Victoria Inn and will be specifically to discuss traffic and parking. Maps of the current parking restrictions are available from Yvonne Groves (in her mail box, outside The Lodge). Your feedback is welcomed, preferably in advance of the meeting by email or Yvonne’s mail box.

Parking In The Village

A meeting has been arrange to put together a final proposal for parking in the village.

Monday 16th July at 7pm

Church Room

Come along and have your say.

Parking Proposal Plans

As requested, here are the parking proposal plans. 

The Parish Council will now review all comments and work out the best plans to take forward for a formal consultation.  The formal consultation is carried out by Cormac for Cornwall Council.

Pink Line = Double Yellow

Blue = Seasonal Restrictions

 

Thoughts On The Roads In Perranuthnoe‏

Dear all,

Your Parish Council is still trying to get something done about problem parking in our village.

Some years ago, a scheme requiring double yellow lines throughout the village and along the access road was proposed, but it met with opposition from some businesses and some residents. Because there was no consensus, the scheme could not go forward.

The option of having double yellow lines still divides opinion, so we are trying to find some possible alternatives.

As an alternative start point for a scheme, how about at least designating some "no parking allowed" passing places on the village access road and some no parking areas at key "pinch points" in the village?

Or, does anyone have any other ideas or suggestions?

Could residents please email me at theresagourlay@hotmail.com with ideas. I'd appreciate inputs by June 15th, so that I can collate everything and communicate back to you on options.

In particular, if we go ahead with the suggested alternative, please help identify where passing places should be and where the key "pinch points" are within our village.

Your inputs will help me to go back to the PC with a concrete proposal as an alternative to blanket yellow lines.

If residents wish to form a committee on this topic, then I can facilitate this as well.

Thanks for your time,
Theresa Strawson

UPDATE: Parking In Perran

Jim Scobie (parish councillor) has suggested that we all report any "silly parking" to the police as it will be the only way we will be able to get any yellow lines. He says that if the police get enough reports they will then get the council to do something about it.

It is a serious problem as we all know. If there is an accident in the village during the silly season then the emergency services will not be able to get through, especially anything as large as a fire engine! So please follow his advice and report silly parking, whether its outside your own property or anywhere else in the village.

The number to call is the non-emergency number which is 101

Parking In Perran - Idea

The Parish Councillor who has taken interest in our difficulties has given me a street map of Perranuthnoe and asked me to mark on it where I think double yellows, single yellows, residents parking bays -or no changes should go. Chris ball and Jack Trewhella who both attended the last Parrish council meeting also have been sent a map each to do likewise.

However, I think that 3 people deciding for the whole village will leave us open at CC level to them saying that 3 views are not representative and therefore give them an excuse to do nothing.

If I photocopied the map for everyone to have I suspect that there will be as many views as there are copies and therefore again CC will say we cannot make our minds up and still do nothing.

So how about this idea for a compromise - text me 07980 313739 or email me kwall@btconnect.com with what you think should happen in your road where you live (ie - yellow x2 yellows x1, res parking or no change) . Also tell me what should happen to the roads where there are no houses ( ie Perran Hill out of the village).

If you are happy for me to do this then I will transcribe your views onto the one map and enclose it with a list of names of the people who have contributed. I will mark the map democratically and have no axe to grind as the only bit of road that affects me is coming down Perran Hill and wanting to do a right turn towards the church.

I will give what responses I have to the Parrish Council at their next meeting which is on Thur 3rd Oct

If anyone has a better idea then I will go along with that

Thanks for your time Karen Wall

How Do You Feel About The Parking Problem In Perranuthnoe?

Dear Perranuthnoe

 

There was a meeting of the Parrish Council last evening and one of the topics up for discussion was the parking situation in Perranuthnoe. As everyone knows, this summer the parking has varied from the diabolical to down right dangerous.

 

The Parrish Councils take on it all is that Perranuthnoe was offered yellow lines before but none of the villagers could agree so nothing was done at all.  Their second take on is that it has only been bad this summer because the weather was nice,  (previous years have been fine !) Their other point of view is even if the village was agreed it would join the pile of things  for the CC to do and could take another two years………… unless a case could be made for health and safety – either for traffic, pedestrians or 999 emergency within the village itself. I think the village could make a case on all three counts.

 

So what to do about it? Apparently a petition counts a just one letter, so the Parrish Council advised that as many people as possible write with their concerns to the following people;-

 

Mr Bert Biscoe Cornwall Council( Portfolio holder for highways)

Cornwall Council

County Hall

Treyew Rd

Truro TR1 3AY

 

Arthur Hooper Managing Director Cormac Solutions

c/o Western Region,

Radnor Rd,

Scorrier,

Redruth

TR16 5EH

 

You must include a Health & Safety element and I would suggest that you bullet point the issues.

 

One of the associated issues was the cost of the car park at £3.50 regardless of whether you are there for the day or ½ hour.  This is up for re- tendering this month. As you know CC reduced its cost of the parking in Penzance and Longrock CC car park is only £1 for the day. Does CC have to accept the highest tender? Is it something the village could run themselves on a rota basis? Could there be a sliding scale of prices ie/ £1 for 1-2 hours for example. The person (another letter to write) who is responsible for this is Lizzy Hibbard, Property Manager and the rest of the address is the same as County Hall. Her number is 01872 324876 . The loos in the village will be part of the car park contract otherwise they would have been closed.

 

At the end of the day we will all have a slightly different opinion as to where double yellows, single yellows and residents parking areas go.  If we do nothing - nothing will happen, if we all write -something could happen.  And perhaps we could all agree to the common denominator to try to ease the situation next summer.  That is to say, get the main trouble spots sorted and the others can be reviewed again. If you know a neighbour who would support this but is not connected to a computer could you print this off or jot down the addresses so they can have their say too.

 

Over to you

Best wishes Karen Wall