The tenth day of Christmas: 10 developers

On the tenth day of Christmas my council gave to me

Ten developers*
Nine brave councillors
Eight top consultants
Seven % second homes
Six useless MPs
Five eco-villages
Four supermarkets
Three point four million pounds for an airport
Two Truro park and rides

And a stadium entirely for free

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* Those who called for the Council’s still undecided Core Strategy to include provision for 57,000 or more houses to be built over the next 20 years, therefore increasing the building rate by an eye-watering 30% (and their own potential profits – what a coincidence) included

• Bell Cornwell, town planning consultants based in Exeter

• Catesby Property Group: residential and commercial developers from Stratford on Avon

• Cranford Developments Ltd: a land and development company from Staffordshire

• Drivers Jonas Deloitte: commercial property consultants with offices in London, Slough, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Scotland

• Hawkstone SW Ltd: property developers with their registered office at Coalville in Leicestershire

• Linden Homes SW: offices in Saltash but part of the UK-wide Galliford Try building group, which includes Midas Homes, Stanford Homes, Rosemullion Homes and Gerald Wood Homes

• Persimmons Homes SW: a UK-wide building firm with its HQ in York

• Taylor Wimpey: the UK’s largest housebuilder with its head office in High Wycombe

• Tetlow King Planning: a planning and development consultancy from Bristol which on its website boasts of overturning a rejection of 67 houses at Padstow on appeal

• Wain Homes: based in Okehampton

They were backed by

• Cornwall Development Company – Cornwall Council’s own economic development service!