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• LATEST NEWS

  5 October 2026 –The first meeting of the Trustees celebrated our formal registration with the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation – charity bank account and Gift Aid registration to follow.  Our formal name is St Mawes & St Just Community Land Trust: informally to be known as ‘The SMART Trust’ with our old recognisable brand and logo. We also celebrated the Planning Officer being ‘minded to approve’ our planning application which gets us on to the next steps: formal negotiations with Cornwall Council over funding and conditions around the Affordable Homes estate.

• 16 August 2026 – On Saturday 22nd August, weather permitting, members of the St Mawes Community are starting local fundraising efforts for the Community Led Housing project by hosting a BBQ on hosting a BBQ on the harbour front outside Pomerys between noon and 3pm. All takings will go to the project with Burgers, Venison Burgers and Scallops on offer for anyone to purchase.
  Not only will all takings go to the project, but there will be an opportunity to make donations and pledges, however big or small, to the project.

• June 2026 – St Just in Roseland Parish Council made a commitment of £100,000 to SMART (St Mawes Affordable Regeneration Team), subject to planning permission being granted and a commencement date agreed. This will be funded using CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) monies that is specific to supporting community projects and reinvesting monies locally to support the needs and wellbeing of parish residents.

• MAY 2026

  20 May 2026 – Letter to Secretary of State for Education from local MP lending her support to Community Led Housing project.

  27 May 2026 – Community Led Housing Full Planning Application submitted – Link here – (PA26/03701).

• APRIL 2026

  ASPIRE Academy Trust and Cornwall Council submissions to Secretary of State for Education for release of St Mawes Primary School Playing Field for development as Community Led Housing.

  8 Apr 2026 – 3rd Public Consultation on Community Led Housing in St Mawes Memorial Hall (144 attendees including Local MP). For more information, or if you missed the meeting. The presentation can be found here.

• MARCH 2026

  Heads of Terms agreed between ASPIRE Academy Trust and Gerrans & St Mawes United Football Club for long term use of Football Club facilities by St Mawes Primary School.

• DECEMBER 2025

  22 Dec 2025 – Cornwall Council offered further bridging funding by way of a grant payment up to the sum of £24,700 to support the delivery of Early-Stage Feasibility works relating to the Site. (Of this £972 was rolled over from the August grant)

  Heads of Terms agreed with Cornwall Council for transfer of title to School Playing Fields for Community Led Housing development.

• NOVEMBER – 2025

  14 Nov 2025 – Housing Needs Survey Results published by Cornwall Council.
  12 Nov 2025 – Round Table Meeting with Cornwall Council and Coastline Registered Provider.

• OCTOBER 2025

  2 Oct 2025 – Positive Feed back received from Cornwall Council on PREAPP.

• SEPTEMBER 2025

  21 Sep 2025 – Closing date for Cornwall Council’s St Just in Roseland Parish Housing Needs Survey
  2 Sep 2025 – 2nd Public Consultation on Community Led Housing in St Mawes Memorial Hall. The presentation can be found here.

• AUGUST 2025

  8 Aug 2025 – Cornwall Council offered a bridging funding by way of a grant payment up to the sum of £4,600 to to support the delivery of Early-Stage Feasibility works relating to the Site.

• JUNE 2025

  9 Jun 2025 – Community Led Housing Planning Pre-Application (PA25/00583/PREAPP) submitted to Cornwall Council.
  

• FEBRURARY 2025

  27 Feb 2025 – 1st Public Consultation on Community Led Housing in St Mawes Memorial Hall (75 attendees including Local MP and Ward Representative). The presentation can be found here.
  17 Feb 2025 – First meeting of St Mawes Affordable Regeneration Team (SMART) Panel.

• JAUNUARY 2025

  27 Jan 2025 – Special Parish Council Meeting reviews all Way Forward recommendations and supports Affordable Housing Project.

• 2024

  15/16 Nov 2024 – The Way Forward Stage 2 Consultation in St Mawes Millennium Rooms.
  30 Sep 2024 – The Way Forward Public Consultation Survey closes.
  6 Jun 2024 – First Meeting of Housing & Accommodation Working Group. Vision confirmed as: • Affordable low-cost homes for young people. • Majority of house building in the parish contracted out to local builders and housing associations. • Majority of future development concentrated in St Mawes.
  21 May 2024 – First Meeting of Coordinating Group – Terms of Reference for all Working Groups established.

  29 Apr 2024 – ‘Follow On’ public meeting in St Mawes Memorial Hall approves appointment of Coordinating Group and Working Groups. Shortage of affordable housing for locals identified as the single biggest factor in regeneration.
  18 Mar 2024 – First of ‘The Way Forward’ public meetings in St Mawes Memorial Hall – 180 attendees.
  5 Feb 2024 – Parish Council supports launch of ‘St Just in Roseland – The Way Forward’ to establish ways to regenerate the local community.