News Updates

Mebyon Kernow is pleased to announce that a key speaker at our upcoming National Conference on Saturday 24th October will be Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle. Lindsay is well-known as the winner of the 2025 by-election to represent the people of Caerphilly in Senedd Cymru. It was a contest that political pundits had predicted would be […]

The proposal for a 32MW solar farm at Trerice has been consented by a government planning inspector. The original application was recommended for approval by planning officers at Cornwall Council, but was turned down by councillors at a meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee on 10th July 2025. The applicants went to appeal and a

I have sent the below letter to Noah Law MP setting out my concerns about the impact of top-down planning policy changes on the planning process in Cornwall. The planning system in Cornwall We have previously discussed my concerns about how Cornwall’s planning system has been undermined by the top-down imposition of an inappropriate, unsustainable

At the meeting at Cornwall Council on 21st April, I seconded a motion, which challenged the failure of the UK Government to allocate funding to Cornwall through their “Pride in Place” programme. The motion was proposed by Lib Dem councillor Ruth Gripper and received near-unanimous support across the Council. My speech was as follows: “I

At the second Full Council meeting of the new unitary authority, I tabled a motion, which called for a “devolution settlement to properly reflect Cornwall’s national identity and the national minority status of the Cornish.” Following discussion between elected members – including the leader of the Council Cllr Leigh Frost – it was drafted to