Guinness in is good for you?
Guinness in is good for you? |
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Providing houses for local people must be seen as a good thing but the disproportionate amount of housing being planned in Hayle and some of the places that The Guinness Trust have chosen for the siting of such houses in Hayle has been the subject of a lot of controversy. The plans for housing around Loggans Mill, cynically passed as local groups met with the council to discuss the future of the building have now resulted in houses being built almost up to the walls of the listed mill building and preventing access to it. Many have argued that Penwith Councils failure to repair the mill building and the new proximity of hosing will lead to calls for the mill to be demolished on safety grounds. The five years ago the Guinness Trust applied for permission to build houses on land adjacent to Penpol School off of St Georges road in Hayle. After a long and heated campaign and protests from residents the District Council finally rejected the proposals. Now it seems that The Guinness Trust is making another attempt to force their plans to turn Hayle into the social hosing capital of Penwith onto an increasingly resistant public. The Guinness Trust have let it be known that despite their previous application to build 18 houses on land being thrown out, they were still interested in building a mixture of rented social housing and shared ownership properties on the site adjacent to Penpol School. Guinness have their eyes on the Penpol Road Site as they considered the site acceptable in the light of the Penwith Local Plan, which permits the development of Greenfield sites in Hayle for affordable houses despite a number of Brownfield sites being available. Local residents have opposed the recent announcement which they fear could lead to the opening up of the land between to town and A30 for similar developments, because of the added strain it would put on the already congested road and local services, and because it would preclude the future expansion of Penpol School. Hayle town Council have also expressed their concerns over the revised proposals and are understood to be against the scheme. |