Last week saw two really excellent announcements and good news for communities on the north and south coasts of Truro and Falmouth.
Firstly, after years of hard work, I was delighted to confirm
that Perranporth will get a new secondary school, which is due to open in
September 2025.
This is something I have
been working hard on, with the excellent team at Cornwall Council and the
Department for Education, since shortly after my election in 2019. Lack of
school places for the communities on the north coast of our constituency was
one of the top issues raised with me on the doors during that campaign, along
with the pressure that Truro’s schools were under, and so finding a site for a
new secondary school was very important.
The site for this school
is due to be near Liskey Hill in Perranporth, subject to planning permission,
and it will provide up to 1,350 places. The
school is due to open by September 2025 and will be part of Truro and Penwith
Academy Trust, which supports twenty-nine infant, primary and secondary schools
across Cornwall including schools in Perranporth, Mithian and Blackwater. The
new school will take students from the Perranporth, St Agnes, Cubert,
Goonhavern, Holywell, St Newlyn East, Newquay and Truro area.
I am over the moon with
this progress. In 2020, after months of discussion, it was confirmed that I had
secured a new secondary school for this constituency as part of the
Government’s Free School Programme. This is huge news for local families in and
around this part of the North Coast and I look forward to seeing the plans in
the near future.
Then on Friday
there was some fantastic news for Falmouth, when our Police and Crime
Commissioner Alison Hernandez confirmed that the Falmouth Police Station
enquiry desk, which has been closed since 2014, will reopen.
With the rise of anti-social behaviour and violence against women and
girls in particular, I am pleased to see my work with our Police and Crime
Commissioner Alison Hernandez to re-open Falmouth Police Station’s front desk,
something which I have campaigned on since my election in 2019, has been
successful. In recent meetings with our local police I have been told that they
are on course to have more police officers by 2023 than they have ever had
before, and it is only right that these officers will be able to rely on public
facing facilities in police stations like Falmouth, to help them in their work
fighting crime.
The reopening of Falmouth Police Station’s enquiry desk was one of the
top things I raised with PCC Hernandez when I met her in the constituency and
it is good to see plans are now in place to re-open these crucial elements of
our local policing to the public.
These two announcements are just two ways in which long-running work by
me as part of the Conservative team that represents Cornwall at county and
government level are delivering for you, and I look forward to continuing with
my positive work for you in the future.
As ever, if you need my assistance with anything then my
team and I are here to help. Please get in touch with me by email at
Cherilyn.mackrory.mp@parliament.uk , or by telephone on 01872 229698. My
regular constituency advice surgeries are held in a covid-safe environment at
my office, so please do get in touch should you wish to meet me about any
matters that I can be of assistance with.
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