This page contains a range of articles, information and correspondence received by Lanreath Parish Council that may be of interest to the wider community.

On this Page:

• Looe Community Speed Watch (September 2024)
• Pension Credit - Could you be Eligible (September 2024)
• NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Surveys (September 2024)
• Saltash Tunnel Technology Upgrade (September 2024)
• Listening to You (September 2024)
• Safer Cornwall 'Have Your Say' Survey (July 2024)
• National Policing Statement 2024 for Violence Against Women and Girls (July 2024)
• Stroke Association Emotional Support Service (July 2024)
• Allotments in Lanreath Parish (July 2024)
• Latest Clean Cornwall Newsletter (Sept 2024)
• CORMAC Community Volunteering (April 2024)
• Veterans Regroup (January 2024)
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System Newsletter (September 2024)
• Lerryn C of E Primary School (July 2023)
• Adult Digital Exclusion (January 2023)
• Protect Duty Bill and Event Safety & Emergency Management (September 2022)
• No.77 Bus Timetable (February 2022)
• Furzedown Community Fund (March 2022)

Are you passionate about keeping your community safe?

Looe Community Speed Watch are recruiting new members to discourage people from speeding.

If you would like to make a difference in your town/village and can spare a few hours each month, Looe CSW would love to hear from you.

To find out more about  Community Speed Watch, or to apply, visit: https://roadsafety.devon-cornwall.police.uk/community-speed-watch-csw/how-to-join-an-existing-community-speed-watch-group/

Autumn 2024 to Autumn 2025

National Highways is starting the next phase of a major modernisation upgrade of the A38 Saltash Tunnel in Cornwall this autumn. 

This represents a £25 million investment from National Highways to improve journeys between south east Cornwall and Plymouth, and maintain the safe operation of the tunnel for many years to come. 

The tunnel and its 'reversible' lane, which allows traffic to travel in either direction depending on the time of day or conditions, rely on specialised technology to operate and keep drivers safe. 

The current ‘tunnel & lane control system’ is over 20 years old, approaching the end of its life and is being replaced and upgraded as part of an extensive programme of work. This will keep everyone using the tunnel safe, provide more reliable journeys and reduce the risk of unplanned closures.

Forming a key route between Plymouth and south east Cornwall, any work on the tunnel has to be carefully planned. National Highways is liaising with local stakeholders and its construction team to refine how these essential renewals are delivered with the least disruption to the south east Cornwall community and drivers. 

Work is currently due start at the end of November with weeknight closures of the tunnel. These will continue until the work is finished. 

There will be speed restrictions and narrow lanes being installed westbound between St Budeaux and the Tamar Bridge from early 2025 to allow work to be carried out in the verges.

In early to mid-2025, the current control system will need to be turned off and removed to allow installation of the new system. This means there will only be one lane open in each direction for A38 traffic through the tunnel, which will be fixed as the traffic can no longer be dynamically controlled. 

The Tamar Bridge will retain its four traffic lanes. There will be one lane fixed in each direction for A38 traffic, a lane dedicated for Saltash Town only in the westbound direction and the eastbound cantilever open for local and ‘tag only’ traffic. This work should finish in autumn 2025. 

More details around the work and closures, including dates, will be available on the National Highways webpage as the scheme progresses:  nationalhighways.co.uk/SaltashTunnel . And for any questions, you can contact the National Highways Contact Centre on 0300 123 5000 (open 24/7), who will direct your enquiry to the team, or email: info@nationalhighways.co.uk .

Closures are frustrating, but these disruptions will benefit road users and the local community for many years to come. Once work starts remember to plan ahead, allow extra time or consider other routes, and check before you travel.

Further information may be found on the following link A38 Saltash Tunnel technology upgrade - National Highways 

Please note: all enquiries should be directed to National Highways, and not to Tamar Bridge which is independently owned and operated by Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Councils. 

Cllr Linda Taylor is the Leader of Cornwall Council.

Linda leads Cornwall Council’s Cabinet – which is the group of councillors responsible for making most of the decisions at Cornwall Council.

Linda is holding 12 public meetings, to meet and hear from Cornwall's residents.

As a result of the General Election taking place on 4 July, we postponed six meetings that were due to take place in June. These have been rescheduled to take place in September and October. The nearest meeting to Lanreath will a meeting on 8 October, 7 to 8:30pm : at Saltash Guildhall, Saltash Town Council, Lower Fore Street, Saltash, PL12 6JX

Come along and join us, if you have a question for Linda about local issues, Cornwall Council services and priorities or are just interested to hear the conversation.

Hearing directly from people helps Linda, and her Cabinet colleagues, to understand what is on people's minds. Linda wants to meet as many people in as many communities as possible.

• Everyone is welcome to come along to one of the events, whether to ask a question or just to listen to the discussion
• We will try to hear from as many people as possible at each event, and will ask that people only ask one question until everyone has had a chance to ask their question
• Please think about the question you would most like to ask Cllr Linda Taylor
• You can let us know your question before the meeting begins using our simple paper form
• As Linda and the officers helping to run the events will have to travel home after the events have ended - sometimes quite way - we will bring the discussion to an end no later than 8.30pm.

For more information please see https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/listening-to-you

Safer Cornwall is a partnership of the Devon and Cornwall Police, the Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, the National Probation Service, NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall Council and a wide range of other partners from the public, voluntary, community and private sector organisations. The Partnership has a responsibility to work together to do all that it can to reduce crime and disorder, anti-social behaviour, problem use of drugs and alcohol and re-offending. More information on the work of the Safer Cornwall Partnership can be found at: https://safercornwall.co.uk/ .

Throughout the remainder of this year Safer Cornwall will be developing a new Plan for 2025-2028 and are seeking the views of residents as part of gathering information about the community safety issues that are having the most impact and what could be done to improve things.

Residents across Cornwall are being asked to share their views about crime and antisocial behaviour in their area and Safer Cornwall has just launched its ‘Have Your Say’ survey which can be accessed on the Let’s Talk Cornwall website until September 1 this year. A link to the survey can be found at 

https://safercornwall.co.uk/residents-invited-to-have-their-say-on-crime-and-anti-social-behaviour/

The National Police Chief's Council and the College of Policing have jointly published a report highlighting a concerning increase in the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) which has reached epidemic levels in England and Wales, in terms of its scale, complexity and impact on victims.

The full report may be downloaded below.

If anyone has been affected by VAWG they can access free, confidential support by visiting victimcare-dc.org or calling Victim Support on 0808 1681111. To contact a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC)visit sarchelp.co.uk or call 0300 303 4626.

The summer newsletter from the Stroke Association, setting out support available for stroke survivors and their carers, living in Cornwall can be downloaded from the button below:

Lanreath Parish Council has recently considered the need for allotments, or allotment gardens, for residents of Lanreath Parish.

It should be emphasised that, at this stage, no site has been selected and no decisions have been reached to move this initiative forward.

The Parish Council would, however, like to gauge the level of interest in the community.

If you would be interested in leasing an allotment and/or would be prepared to participate in the setting up of a Lanreath Allotment Association to manage the day-to-day operation of an allotment site within the Parish could you advise by email to either:

The Lanreath Parish Council Chairman chairlanreathpc@aol.com

or

The Lanreath Parish Clerk clerk2lanreathpc@gmail.com

or by using the ‘contact us’ facility on this website https://www.lanreathparishcouncil.co.uk/contact-us/

Any responses will be considered at future meetings of the Parish Council.

Thank you.

Information provided by the National Allotment Society on Allotment Associations and their role in the management of sites may be accessed via the link below:

Clean Cornwall is a partnership supported by volunteers, community groups, local organisations, Biffa, Cornwall Council and CRCC working together for a cleaner Cornwall. To download a copy of Clean Cornwall's latest newsletter please click on the button below.

The Cormac Volunteer Scheme is a facility via which individuals or local community groups can identify Cornwall Council owned/managed spaces and work to enhance them. The scheme is largely driven by the desires of the volunteers involved – examples being everything from groups involved in enhancing large public open spaces, through to individuals who tend small flower beds, or weed footpaths.

If you would be interested in volunteering either as individual or part of a group a copy of the Volunteer Scheme Induction pack may be downloaded from the button below.  

The NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System publish a monthly newsletter. Rather than replicate an extensive web based report on this Parish Notice Board the information can be accessed via:

News and Events - NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly (icb.nhs.uk)

Should you wish to subscribe directly to the newsletter this can be done by clicking on the link below:

Know someone else who would like to receive this bulletin? They can subscribe here.

To download our brochure detailing what the school has to offer please click on the button below or visit our website.

It is recognised that the only way of communicating with many commercial and government organisations is online. Elders and those on low incomes, the most vulnerable in our communities, will become disenfranchised as the growing use of technology makes them more isolated in our communities.

Cllr John Gundry has completed some research on this subject and has drafted a report that assesses the extent of this problem locally and provides useful information schemes available locally that provide opportunities to counter adult digital exclusion.

For those in the community that do not have internet access, the Local Libraries and Information Services at Liskeard and Looe can provide information on Council services closer to where you live. Including information on:

- library services

- housing

- benefits

- council tax

- disabled parking badges

- refuse and recycling

They can also offer advice on how to get information about applying for Council services online. Most have free internet access to the Council's website and other public service websites.

If you know of a member of the community who does not have internet access and is unable to travel to either of the local Cornwall Council Library and Information Services, at Liskeard or Looe, and needs assistance in accessing Cornwall Council services, and you are unable to assist directly, please ask them to contact Peter Seaman, Lanreath Parish Council Chair, either by 'phone or text to 07967 646081 and he will assist where he can.

The link below enables the download of notes compiled by Cllr John Gundry following a recent Cornwall Council briefing on the implications of the forthcoming Protect Duty Bill and guidance on event safety and emergency management that may be of interest to community groups planning public events in the Parish.

For service updates and to download a pdf of the above timetable see Go Cornwall Bus 

The Furzedown Community Fund are accepting applications for funding and help for community projects / educational needs / individual hardship etc.

Please apply, giving your reasons, and amount required to:

Mr J. Venning

Treire Farm,

Lanreath PL13 2PD

or,

email:  j.venning@hotmail.co.uk

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