Category: St Mellion

With an advertised vacancy on St Mellion Parish Council, I’ve been reading up this morning on how the co-option process works.  If ten parishioners formally request an election there will be no co-option but for the purposes of understanding the process, I’m assuming this won’t happen. The co-option procedure is well documented at various places… Continue reading Parish Council Co-Option Process

Yesterday saw the first regular Parish Council meeting since 9th July.  Although meetings happen on a monthly basis, August is the annual exception and no public meeting takes place.  In the intervening period, the council have clearly been anything but idle. First of all, we got the excellent news that the planning application for the… Continue reading No Solar, No Access

Two weeks ago today, I blogged about my concerns on how St Mellion was considering spending the Section 106 money provided by St Mellion International Resort.  That Blog entry contained a letter that I’d sent to Christine, The Parish Clerk.  Despite Christine forwarding it to the Parish Councillors, I’ve not had a reply from them… Continue reading Section 106 – Two weeks today

Yesterday saw the planned, informal meeting in St Mellion to discuss the need for allotments.  Allan Cavill from the National Allotment Society came all the way from Taunton to talk about allotments in general and specifically about St Mellion’s wish to establish allotments within (or near to) the village. Prior to the meeting I was… Continue reading Problems with me carrots!

On the 13th September 2007, a Section 106 agreement was signed by four parties: Caradon District Council Bennelong Golf (St Mellion) Ltd Nat West Bank Cornwall County Council The agreement relates to planning application E2/06/01399/OUT that grants St Mellion International Resort permission for a number of enhancements, including the construction of 265 houses. Although a… Continue reading Parish Council Extraordinary Meeting

The A388 runs from Bideford in Devon to Saltash in Cornwall.  It forms the main commuter route from Launceston to Plymouth and passes through Callington on the way.  It’s an extremely busy road, thanks in part to its linking the A38 and A30; the two major arterial routes in Cornwall.  It’s also home to a… Continue reading Callington to Saltash on a bicycle

To extend my recent blatherings about St Mellion Parish Council, I thought I’d do a short post on the recent issue the council had to address in order to remain quorate.  First though, what exactly does “quorate” mean? In order for an organization or government body to conduct business, there must be sufficient eligible voters… Continue reading The need to be quorate

It’s been just over a month since I first expressed my opinions on the St Mellion Parish Council elections. There have subsequently been two monthly public meetings of the council and I’m pleased to say that I found them energetic and constructive. The new clerk, Christine, is bursting with enthusiasm and seems to already have… Continue reading A month on in the parish

Following my previous post regarding the Parish Council elections, I’d like to proffer my thanks to Alan Twist for his concise comments.  Alan, please accept my apologies for the false supposition that the Solar Farm was the driving force behind the collaborative efforts of St Mellion Park.  I did hear rumours of the precept issue… Continue reading St Mellion Parish Election 2013 – Response to Alan Twist

Sat here today licking my wounds after being defeated in yesterday’s Parish Council Elections.  As a rule, voter apathy surrounds these elections and even a 30% turnout is considered respectable.  That’s assuming voters are even required to turn out.  More often than not there are an insufficient number of candidates to mandate an election!  St… Continue reading St Mellion NIMBYs (Ltd)

Following the passing of Darcy earlier this year, today we lost Missy. She was the runt of the pack, much smaller than Darcy and almost a different species compared to the monster that is Tommy. After some rough calculations, based on when Lou and I got together, we’ve decided she was about eight years old.… Continue reading Another Ferret loss

Last year I Blogged about the death of our Ferret Womble. Today it’s the turn of her long-time partner Darcy. Darcy was a polecat and always the wildest of our flock. When visitors wanted to hold one, Darcy was the chap who stayed firmly in the pen or we’d have suffered the embarrassment of taking… Continue reading Last year Womble, this year Darcy

Since moving into the village of St Mellion, almost two years ago, I’ve walked our dogs, Ollie and Murphy two or three times every day in some local fields. Sadly (for me) today is likely to be the last time as the fields will be mostly gone by tomorrow. The land has been purchased by… Continue reading Goodbye Green Fields

No sooner did I Buy fuel oil than the boiler falls apart. Sods law or what? The first hint of a problem was the electrics tripping out. The cause was quickly narrowed down to the boiler and taking the cover off revealed why. The Flow Switch has developed a freaky fault where water was running… Continue reading Broken Boiler

I’ve been putting off ordering heating oil ever since we moved in. Now the tank is sucking on air and I can’t put the inevitable off any longer. Just ordered 900 Litres from Keltic which should be delivered on Monday or Tuesday next week. Just for the record, the cost was 28.95P/Litre which equates to… Continue reading First oil order