A FEW months ago the residents of Tregony and Tregony Parish Council raised sufficient funds to provide two defibrillators for the village. One of these has already been erected on the outside wall of the doctors' surgery in Roseland Crescent.

The other was due to be installed, with the permission of the St Austell Brewery, on the outside wall of the Kinds Arms pub in Fore Street. 

Guess what? It appears that a planning application has to be submitted to Cornwall Council in order for this to go ahead because the pub is a Grade 2 listed building. Unbelievable. The box in which the equipment is stored is only about two feet square and nine inches deep. What detriment would that have on a listed building? It just beggars belief. The world has gone mad.

Me and many others in the village just hope that the bureaucrats at County Hall do not have the need for a defibrillator if they have a heart attack in Fore Street, Tregony until another location can be found where planning consent does not have to be sought.

Des Mennear,
Chairman,
Tregony PC