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Quartet to Rock the Institute!

Ceramicist Andy Titcomb and textile artist Jane McDonald from St Mabyn together with two painters Colin Davies and Beatrix A. Wood have put together an interesting mix of lively new work and are exhibiting it at Rock Village Institute over the Christmas holidays. The exhibition will run from Sunday 20th December until 2nd January and is open 10am – 4pm every day except Christmas Day.

Christmas is Canceled!

Pictures from St Mabyn School Drama Club play "Christmas is Canceled"

Burlerrow Farm

A MILESTONE was marked at Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn, near Bodmin, with 30,000 bales of Miscanthus animal bedding being sold from the new storage and processing centres at the farm.

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Hands off our schools

Community Action Group Newsletter issue 4

Parish Council

Agreed minutes of the Meeting of St Mabyn Parish Council held on Tuesday, 3rd November 2009 at 7.30pm in the St Mabyn Memorial hall.
Present:  Cllrs. L Wood (Chairman), K Brown (Vice Chairman), R Heath, I Kemp, A Titcomb, C Hodges,  C Barry,  H Barrett,  Ross Francis. Also attending:  J Hoskin (Parish Clerk) One member of the public. Prior to the beginning of the meeting, Mr Ross Francis signed his Declaration of Acceptance of Office as the newly co-opted parish councillor.
Public Session:  Mr James Mutton of Burlerrow Farm explained his plans for the farm and the future of the agricultural enterprise, which included the installation of a wind turbine.
Planning Applications / Planning Matters: 
2009/01450  A Willis, Tregarden, St Mabyn – Listed Building Consent for the adaption of ruined (roofless) shed in curtilage of Listed Building to form Mirador (viewing platform) partial demolition of stone walls. No objections / Support. 
2009/01478  Midas Homes Ltd, land between Chapel Lane, Chestnut Drive, St Mabyn Residential development comprising the erection of thirty five dwellings with associated infrastructure and external works / landscaping. As the application had been received by the Clerk late. It was resolved to defer this application until the next meeting in December.  The application was passed to the Parish Council Planning Committee. 
Longstone – Agency Agreement with Cornwall Council:  Awaiting agreement documents.  The Clerk, Cllr L Wood and Cllr A Titcomb had met Mr Doney (Cornwall Council) on site to discuss the grass cutting etc. 
Playing Field / Provision of new Play Equipment: The new disabled swing had been installed.  The Chairman had obtained an alternative quotation for a roundabout. Sarah Sims (Community Network Manager) was able to assist with searches for further grant funding. The outstanding work, as identified in the ROSPA report, was being completed.  The picnic table was also to be repaired. 
St Mabyn CE VA School:  It was believed that investigations into a proposed site for a new school at Longstone had been withdrawn.

Hands off our schools

Tonight at a meeting in St Mabyn, Mike Peters (Head of Service – Children, Schools and Families) confirmed that the schools would remain in their villages. The plans for Longstone have been completely dropped and no other sites, remote or otherwise, are being looked into. No Statutory Consultation will be entered into for an amalgamated school.

Referendum results

70% of registered electors (603) responded with valid ballots. The ERS (Electoral Reform Society) state this is extremely high and beyond normal expectation.
Of that 97.3% (587) voted YES to keep both schools in both villages and 16 people voted NO.

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