Planning information for residents of Cornwall
If you live in Cornwall you may be interested in planning matters in your area. Find out about:
the planning applications
the planning process and
what you need to do before making a planning application.
Planning in your area
Our Online planning register page includes instructions on how to get information on planning proposals for:
specific proposals or applications
specific local or postcode areas
sent direct to yo.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-advice-and-guidance/planning-information-for-residents-of-cornwall/
Last updated: 29/01/2025 14:56:04
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Help for young carers and young adult carers
Who is a Young Carer or Young Adult Carer?
Young Carers are children and young people up to age 25 who provide care and support for a family member, they have significant caring responsibility.
The person being cared for may be physically or mentally ill, frail or elderly, disabled, or misuse alcohol or drugs.
Why is it important we support Young Carers?
Young Carers may feel or become excluded from personal and social op.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/carers/young-carers-and-young-adult-carers/
Last updated: 13/06/2025 10:40:23
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Register to vote
Register to vote
When an election is due, the deadline to apply to register is 12 working days before polling day. If you are already registered to vote, you only need to reapply if your details have changed.
You must be on the electoral register (also known as the electoral roll) to be able to vote at an election.
Individual electoral registration requires each person to be responsible for their own registration.
To be o.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/the-council-and-democracy/elections/register-to-vote/
Last updated: 02/12/2025 11:26:24
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Result for Camborne and Redruth constituency - 4 July 2024
Candidate
Description
Votes
Elected
DONNITHORNE, Connor David
The Conservative Party candidate
11,554
HAWKINS, Robert James
Socialist Labour Party
342
HAYES, Catherine Anne (commonly known as Catherine HAYES)
Green Party
2,840
HOLMES, Paul Thomas
The Liberal Party
624
HUGHES, Thalia Simone (commonly known as Thalia Simone MARRINGTON)
Liberal Democrat
4,113
MOON, Perran Henry Rupert (commonly known .....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/the-council-and-democracy/elections/elections-and-referendums/2024-parliamentary-election-4th-july-2024/result-for-camborne-and-redruth-constituency-4-july-2024/
Last updated: 05/07/2024 05:04:32
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Affordable Housing Enabling Toolkit
Providing local needs housing on suitable sites creates balanced communities, breathes fresh life into rural villages and can help ensure that local people can stay in their community, whatever their age or circumstances. Cornwall Council’s affordable housing service works with parishes across Cornwall and helps communities get together to assess need, find and choose sites and to deliver local needs housing.
The Rural Ho.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/housing/affordable-housing/affordable-housing-enabling-toolkit/
Last updated: 07/08/2025 15:10:37
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Project Timeline for Deferred Parishes
A public consultation period on the deferred proposals closed on 29th April 2022. Please visit our Let's Talk Cornwall pages for more details on the proposals.
In November 2020, the Council deferred proposals that could not be completed before the May 2021 elections. The Constitution and Governance Committee agreed a project timeline for the deferred proposals. This timeline follows the stages in the Community Governance .....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/the-council-and-democracy/elections/community-governance-reviews/project-timeline-for-deferred-parishes/
Last updated: 09/05/2022 14:20:41
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Why is research important, and why focus on local areas?
The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Cornwall is one of 30 HDRC’s. The HDRC's are funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to embed a culture of research in their respective local areas. But why is research so important that it attracts this attention and funding?
What is research?
The word ‘research’ conjures up different ideas to different people. Some will think of scie.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/health-determinants-research-collaboration/hdrc-cornwall-news-and-updates/why-is-research-important-and-why-focus-on-local-areas/
Last updated: 23/12/2025 12:03:33
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Social distancing - a guide for towns, parishes and businesses
We have developed guidance on making public spaces safe:
In the short term to manage the risk of the virus spreading
In the longer term by building on the changes that have happened to the way we travel
The key principles
As town centres re-open the key principles of our role are:
We will not develop or impose plans on communities. However, we will support plans that are led by communities, and which are ideally owned .....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/roads-highways-and-pavements/social-distancing-a-guide-for-towns-parishes-and-businesses/
Last updated: 03/03/2021 14:01:32
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Residents turn out to give their views on the future of Cornwall
The council is now analysing feedback from communities across Cornwall following a series of drop-in sessions to support the development of the new Local Plan.
Held over six months, the 24 events were the first phase of an extensive programme of public engagement activities to hear residents’ views on the future of Cornwall.
Sarah Preece, Cornwall Council cabinet member for planning, said:
"Having come to the end of th.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/environment-culture-and-planning/residents-turn-out-to-give-their-views-on-the-future-of-cornwall/
Last updated: 03/03/2026 10:59:29
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Adult Social Care Precept 2025
What is the Adult Social Care Precept?
Since 2016/17 the Government has allowed Local Authorities to charge an additional ‘precept’ on top of their core Council Tax charge. This is to help pay for Adult Social Care services.
The income that is generated from the precept is ring fenced for Adult Social Care services only – it cannot be spent on anything else.
Why was the Precept introduced?
Many of our most vulnerable resi.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-tax/your-council-tax-bill/council-tax-2025/adult-social-care-precept-2025/
Last updated: 12/03/2025 12:33:34
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