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On this page you can read more news stories relating to environment, culture and planning. They are broken down by the month they were published.
August 2021
- Please leave a clear way for the Tour of Britain
- Businesses fly the flag and push the boat out for the Tour of Britain – Saint Piran and Scillonian back Cornwall’s great cycle race day
June 2021
- Cornish collaboration brings G7 themes to life
- Dairy farmer and cheesemaker banned from keeping farm animals
- Revised Pydar Regeneration Scheme in Truro available for public to view
- Call for community groups to get involved in historic project for Clay Country and Redruth
- Residents urged to walk or cycle to school and work this Clean Air Day
- Cornwall Council receives funding to protect vital sand dunes
- Licensee fined after video shows football fans ignoring Covid restrictions
- Working across the Channel to reduce the carbon footprint of dairy production
May 2021
- Record number of Cornish beaches receive Blue Flag status
- Work to begin on clearing fire damage from former school site
- Cornwall Council urges people to stay safe by the coast
- Cornwall Council teams up with Crowdfunder to host 24-hour live Climate Challenge event
- Budding photographers invited to take part in urban nature photo competition
March 2021
- Newquay project gets £65,000 boost from green fund
- Identify as Cornish on the 2021 Census
- New play facilities for children in Perranporth
- Council launches pioneering 'Back the Future' fund
- Improvements underway at Trenance car park as work continues on Saints Trails project
- New pioneering ‘Back the Future’ fund open for donations
- Boost for community projects in mid and west Cornwall
- Carbis Bay Hotel urged to stop further permanent unauthorised works
- Defra announces funding boost and new partnership with Forest for Cornwall
- Environmental Growth Strategy unveiled to focus on our local nature crisis
February 2021
- Final chance to have a say on how planning process works towards climate change aims
- Cornwall and Scilly’s Nature Partnership appoint first ever CEO
- Green projects in Launceston and Bude to benefit from funding boost
- Warning after cliff falls across Cornwall
- New board members mean a boost for nature and lockdown wellbeing
- Court orders caravans to be removed from land
- Put your used PPE in the bin or face a £150 fixed penalty notice
- Millions of pounds from building developments given to community projects
- Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service issues wildfire warning
- Attention all dog owners – make sure you pick up after your pet
