| 1st December 2007 |
Council Leader Whalley hints at new partnership and new role for Convention
“There is something inevitable about the journey to a Cornish Assembly!”
“We are at the beginning of a process, and we have a strategy to achieve our long term ambition to ensure that decisions about Cornwall, which affect Cornwall and shape Cornwall, are made in Cornwall. The Government is beginning to see the light..." more |
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| 26th July 2007 |
The Cornish Unitary – A reflection on new challenges
(Cornish World and West Briton)
"Let's get the collective brain in gear – it's time to step across the unitary stone and head for the Assembly on the other bank, via the Cornish dispersed city region..." more |
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| 17th July 2007 |
HM Treasury Press Release
Government Review empowers regions and localities to spread
economic opportunity to all
"The Government is today launching the review of sub-national economic development and regeneration, setting out bold plans to ensure that every area of the country has the
opportunity to benefit from rising prosperity..." more |
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| 17th July 2007 |
HM Treasury Publication
Review of Sub-National
Economic Development and Regeneration
"The economic trends of globalisation and technological change will make it
increasingly
important that places can respond quickly and flexibly to economic
change if they are to
increase prosperity and tackle effectively concentrations of
disadvantage..." more (835kb) |
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| 21st June 2007 |
Submission to Local Government Review
"
I am writing on behalf of the Cornish Constitutional Convention to offer its view of the ‘One Cornwall' bid and options for Cornwall..." more |
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| 6th February 2007 |
Resolved by Cornwall Council 23rd January 2007
"Proposition: Without prejudice to the submissions made by Cornwall County Council or the district councils,
the Leader and CEO of Cornwall County Council convene an urgent meeting
of Leaders and
CEOs of all Cornish principal authorities to propose an agreement to
submit
a joint outline proposition for further discussion with her to
the Secretary of State to include:..." more |
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| 30th January 2007 |
A Good Start to 2007
"I am writing following the meeting at Cornwall Council on 23rd January at which the Council decided to submit a bid to the Local Government Review..." more |
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| 23rd January 2007 |
Letter to Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State DCLG
"If we are to achieve the best for the people of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and if we are to
fulfil our potential in a creative and sustainable way, then we need to perceive of Cornwall
& the
Isles of Scilly as a rural and peripheral equivalent of a city region
– a dispersed, rural city..." more |
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| 28th December 2006 |
Western Morning News
Why did 30000 people march through the streets of Hayle?
"As we snooze away Christmas meals bureaucratic wheels are turning which may reorganise
local government in Cornwall..." more |
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| 29th November 2006 |
Towards the Cornish Governance Proposition
Objective: Best value governance of public sector services delivery...building on
existing assets, including the LAA and Strategic Partnerships... more |
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| 26th November 2006 |
Regional Spaces, Spaces of Regionalism:
Territory, Insurgent Politics
and the English Question
Presentation slides (6.3 Mb pdf) of article by Martin Jones and Gordon MacLeod from
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 29, Issue 4,
pp 433-452
Full text available from Blackwell Synergy |
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| 26th October 2006 |
Cornish Convention welcomes new white paper
Historic opportunity – time to set aside differences and be inclusive
"We welcome publication of the white paper. The invitation to present a proposition
for the future management and delivery of public services in Cornwall
(and the Isles of Scilly, if it wishes to participate)
is unique and historic..." more
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| 30th June 2006 |
The Cornish Proposition
letter to Tim Jones, Acting Leader, Restormel Borough Council |
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United Council Backs Campaign For Cornish Assembly
"Restormel Borough Council has thrown its full weight behind the campaign for a
Cornish Assembly and agreed to take a pro-active role..." more |
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| 29th June 2006 |
Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly - Framing the proposition
letter to Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government |
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21st June 2006 |
Why Britain should pay homage to Catalonia
Simon Jenkins in The Guardian
download printable version (pdf) |
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| 19th June 2006 |
Letter to Dr Phyllis Starkey MP, chair of ODPM Select Committee,
sent
following the session of the committee at which Convention Chair Bert Biscoe
gave evidence in June 2006 |
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| 26th May 2006 |
Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly – a new model for the future
letter to Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government
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| 13th March 2006 |
Cornwall County Council - Lyons Commission Resolution
"There is keen interest in Cornwall in reforming the governance of
public service delivery..." more |
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| 9th March 2006 |
CORNISH ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN MAKES RADICAL PROPOSAL
TO GOVERNMENT’S LYONS’ COMMISSION
"It’s time to ask, what would an assembly actually do?..." more
Read the Convention's Introduction and Submission to the Lyons Commission
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