Plant-powered chocolate producer secures £852k Good Growth investment for major expansion
An award-winning Cornish confectioner is planning a major expansion after securing an investment of £852,573 from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth programme.
Buttermilk, based in Bodmin, started life as a traditional fudge shop in the heart of Padstow in 1964. Now, 60 years later, the business has pioneered a range of award-winning dairy-free chocolate bars that are stocked by major retailers and wholesalers.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/council-budgets-and-economy/plant-powered-chocolate-producer-secures-852k-good-growth-investment-for-major-expansion/
Last updated: 02/02/2024 14:38:03
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Useful Information
Help and guidance for your project
The team have created a range of useful resources to help get projects off the ground:
An example of a small scale woodland management plan
Template for a woodland management plan
Tree species suggestion list
Tree nurseries that supply UK sourced and grown trees
Information on Contaminated land
Community Orchards guidance
List of apple and fruit users for excess crops from orchard trees.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/countryside/forest-for-cornwall-programme/useful-information/
Last updated: 29/05/2025 13:13:05
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Discounted sale
When a developer gets planning permission in Cornwall, they are often required to provide affordable housing for sale. They can provide homes themselves as discounted homes. This scheme is known as Section 106 Discounted Market Sale.
How does discounted sale work?
The original developer willbe obligatedto sell a certain number of homes on their development at a discount to people with a local connection who are in housin.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/housing/affordable-housing/discounted-sale/
Last updated: 05/02/2025 12:54:45
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Having a spring clean? Recycle more at your local recycling centre
Having a spring clean or sprucing up your garden ready for summer? If so, you may be planning a trip to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centre in the coming weeks.
As part of its Sorted campaign, Cornwall Council is reminding people to sort their items before they visit the sites so more can be reused and recycled.
Furniture or household items that are in good condition that you no long want can be donated to .....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/transport-streets-and-waste/more-transport-streets-and-waste-news-stories/having-a-spring-clean-recycle-more-at-your-local-recycling-centre/
Last updated: 11/12/2024 10:58:42
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Air Source Heat Pumps and Planning
The permitted development right of Class G allows you to install, alter or replace an air source heat pump on a residential property. This is subject to a number of limits and conditions.
Please note: ‘permitted development’ rights may be removed through a planning condition, Article 4 Direction or other restriction.
Limits and Conditions
The air source heat pump can be on a house, bungalow or a block of flats.
You are p.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-advice-and-guidance/air-source-heat-pumps/
Last updated: 21/06/2024 13:19:25
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Neighbourhood planning process guide notes and templates
The guidance in this section gives advice on how to make a Neighbourhood Plan. It sets out the key stages of the process. It also shows the steps that you need to take to ensure that your Neighbourhood Plan meets the legal requirements. It has useful templates which will help you with some of the key documents that you will need to produce to support your Neighbourhood Plan.
Please use our Preparing a Neighbourhood Plan T.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/neighbourhood-planning/preparing-a-neighbourhood-plan/neighbourhood-plan-ndp-guide-notes-and-templates/
Last updated: 09/12/2024 15:34:45
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Simple ceremony
Simple wedding
Our simple ceremony, is a legal civil wedding, held in most of our ceremony rooms. You may invite up to eight guests and it is suitable for those wanting a simple, effortless and intimate ceremony.
It is effortless for you, as no forward preparation is required. We take care of the arrangements, conducting an elegant ceremony which is accompanied by a selection of graceful music supplied by your Celebrant f.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/births-marriages-deaths/my-cornwall-wedding/our-wedding-collection/legal-weddings/simple-ceremony/
Last updated: 25/06/2025 13:35:56
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Newquay Cornwall Airport Local Development Order
The Newquay Cornwall Airport (NCA) Local Development Order (LDO)
The NCA LDO is as a facilitative and enabling tool. It allows the airport to react to business requirements on a level playing field.
Before the Order, operational development needed planning permission regardless of need and size. This was authorised development through Classes F-N. These Classes form part of the following order:
Part 8 of the General Perm.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/local-development-orders/newquay-cornwall-airport-local-development-order/
Last updated: 30/03/2021 15:09:00
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Thanks to one and all for planting a million trees for Forest for Cornwall
Cornwall Council is thanking everyone who has contributed to planting the Forest for Cornwall which has now reached a million trees.
Since the community planting programme started five years ago, volunteers, businesses, farmers, community groups, schools, landholders, town and parish councils and many more have all helped put trees in the ground in multiple places across Cornwall.
The Forest for Cornwall now spans a.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/environment-culture-and-planning/thanks-to-one-and-all-for-planting-a-million-trees-for-forest-for-cornwall/
Last updated: 17/07/2024 09:43:48
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Addition of a Footpath at St Just Playing Field in St Just-in-Roseland CP. WCA 600
Below is the current Definitive Map Modification Order (DMMO) documentation to add a Footpath in St Just-in-Roseland CP. Including the:
report
user evidence forms
topographical reports
documentary evidence
consultation responses
delegated officer decision
WCA 600 Cornwall Council report for 'Application for a Modification Order to add a Footpath at St Just Playing Field in St Just-in-Roseland CP'
WCA 600 Report Final
W.....
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/countryside/dmmo-reports/addition-of-a-footpath-at-st-just-playing-field-in-st-just-in-roseland-cp-wca-600/
Last updated: 25/04/2024 08:51:59
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