At our Parish Meeting on Tuesday, Cllr Richard Newton Chance reviewed the work of the ECE Committee:
E&CE report 2025
It seems that with each year that passes that emergency gets more and more pressing. Indeed, given the geopolitical situation, it is hard to remain positive, but we must if we are to persuade our parishioners to help us mitigate the effects of global heating and nature loss. Important not just for us, but critically important for our children and grand children who are going to have to deal with the uncertain and potentially devastating future that my generation has helped create.
I would like to start by acknowledging the energy, dedication and sheer persistence of Andrew Brown whose vision and hard work led to the very successful Groundswell event we hosted at Calstock Arts last October and who never rests in his efforts to help nature recovery. He has been pivotal in our joint work with the excellent local team from the National Trust in managing the land for nature.
Peter Bloomfield has also successfully organised a hedgerow management course and Ken Finn has been doing sterling work with Drip Drip in holding SWW to account for the state of the Tamar. Pete Gadd has made the telly with the scything in the churchyards and has done a great job in managing our considerable land holdings for nature, which now include Town Farm Field in Calstock and Foster’s Field in Gunnislake, as well as moving us to using battery operated tools to do it. Pete Thompson and Phil Spurr are working with Pete on a management plan for Town Farm Field to turn it into something special for people and for nature.
Jim Wakem is actively pursuing EV recharging points in Gunnislake and Calstock car parks. Steve Wood and Calstock Arts maintain an excellent programme of events and speakers about environmental issues
I also want to thank Clare, our inestimable clerk, for her support, in particular in moving all our parish council committees to take on our Environment Strategy in their decision making.
If we are all still here after the elections, then we want to move further and faster in our work alongside our partners in the National Landscape, the National Trust, the Catchment Partnership, Heidelberg and the Westcountry Rivers Trust. Cornwall County Council has lead the way amongst local authorities with their Climate Emergency Development and Nature Recovery Plans and we look forward to the new council turning those plans into reality – we will do everything we can to support them in that.
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