Policies and Priorities

The following are areas where we are actively working to increase awareness and participation in decision making, and are promoting dialogue between community, public, and private bodies. This list may change from time to time.

Is a Mayor for Cornwall Relevant?

We tend to think of mayors as something for towns or cities. But would this work for a region like Cornwall, and what is being proposed? We look at practice elsewhere and compare the creation of Mayor’s Office with a Devolved Assembly.

The Cornish Public Services and Housing Crisis

Over 20 years ago Cornish commentators and researchers identified the housing crisis, but it is now a major area of public policy failure. What went wrong, and where should Cornwall Council go next with this issue?

Precarious Heritage: A Failure to Protect

1,000 year old monuments unique to Cornwall are being neglected and damaged. We look at why Cornwall now needs its own statutory agency and an Act of Parliament.