Percentage figures for housing growth set out in Cornwall Local Plan

Following my earlier blog entry this evening, I have been asked to post the [percentage] figures for housing growth for the various Community Network Areas across Cornwall.

The Cornwall Local Plan includes housing figures for the period 1991-2010 which showed that increases in housing stock, over that period, were as follows:

47%; China Clay Area
32%; Newquay / St Columb
30%; St Austell / Mevagissey
29%; Launceston
28%; Camelford
25%; Bodmin
23%; Bude
21%; Hayle / St Ives
20%; Truro /Roseland
20%; St Agnes / Perranporth
19%; St Blazey / Fowey / Lostwithiel
18%; Camborne / Pool / Redruth
18%; Wadebridge / Padstow
16%; Caradon
16%; Helston / Lizard
16%; West Penwith
14%; Falmouth / Penryn
14%; Liskeard / Looe
12%; Cornwall Gateway

I consistently argued that because Clay Country has experienced so much housing growth in recent years, it merits a breathing space going forward. But Cornwall Council is pushing the “eco-community” and, once again, (proportionately) more housing is to be built in the China Clay Area than elsewhere.

If the housing figures proposed in the present draft of the Cornwall Local Plan are developed by 2030, the extent of housing growth in each Network Area over four decades (1991 - 2030) would be as follows:

87%; China Clay Area
75%; Newquay / St Columb
74%; Bodmin
64%; Launceston
52%; St Austell / Mevagissey
51%; Truro /Roseland
50%; Bude
50%; Hayle / St Ives
49%; Camelford
46%; Camborne / Pool / Redruth
40%; Wadebridge / Padstow
36%; St Agnes / Perranporth
35%; Liskeard / Looe
35%; St Blazey / Fowey / Lostwithiel
34%; Falmouth / Penryn
34%; Helston / Lizard
34%; West Penwith
30%; Caradon
26%; Cornwall Gateway

It remains my view that the level of housing growth in the Mid Cornwall area is inappropriate and unsustainable, but other councillors do not appear to agree with me following today's vote on the "eco-community."

It is worth noting that the high levels of growth proposed in Bodmin and Newquay are as a consequence of support from local councillors in those towns.

The full statistics for the China Clay Area (supplied by Cornwall Council) are as follows:

Parish dwellings in 1991 - 7,541
Parish dwellings in 2010 - 11,066
Housing growth (1991 – 2010) - 3,525
Proposed Local Plan target - 1,800
Proposed eco-town - 1,200
Projected number of parish dwellings in 2030 - 14,066
- Increase in housing stock (1991 - 2030) - 6,525
- Increase in housing stock (1991 - 2010) - 47%
- Increase in housing stock (1991 - 2030) - 87%