Residents of the Truro and Roseland Community Network area are being invited to hear about plans to help manage flooding within the area at a meeting on Tuesday, September 27.

Dr Dave Watkins, the floods, catchments and coastal lead within the strategic environment team at the Cornwall Council, will attend to talk about how the council assesses drainage schemes for new housing developments. This will include information about draining surface water from rainfall effectively via sustainable drainage systems which are considered to be environmentally beneficial.

Following public exhibitions in July, the meeting will include the progress on the A390 Truro Western Corridor highways package. This consists of the Chyvelah Road Bus Gate, the Threemilestone roundabout improvement and Arch Hill junction improvements schemes. Scheduled to be delivered in the next two years, the package will ease traffic flow along the A390 and address congestion from the daily estimated 18,000 commuter trips into Truro. Mark Secker, project manager working on behalf of the council, will give the update on the scheme, which will also support housing development and employment space helping to boost Truro as a regional economic centre.

Chris Wells, chairman of the Community Network Panel and a Truro City Councillor, said: “At this meeting people will be able to hear about local matters including flood management and progress on the A390 Truro Western Corridor highways scheme. Everyone is welcome so I hope that people will come along to find out more and take the opportunity to meet their local, parish, city and Cornwall Councillors. Those who come along will have the opportunity to ask questions.”

The Truro and Roseland Panel meets bi-monthly to discuss matters that affect the local area and to agree priorities that can be delivered by Cornwall Council and its partners such as the police and health services.

Some of the areas that community networks focus on include anti-social behaviour, economic development, the environment, community planning, regeneration, conservation, community safety, transport and highway issues.

The Truro and Roseland Community Network Panel includes all ten Cornwall Councillors for the area, representatives of Truro City Council and the 18 parish councils in the community network: Chacewater, Cuby, Feock, Gerrans, Grampound with Creed, Kea, Kenwyn, Ladock, Philleigh, Probus, Ruan Lanihorne, St Clement, St Erme, St Just-in-Roseland, St Michael Caerhays, St Michael Penkevil, Tregony and Veryan.

The meeting will be on September 27 from 7pm to 9pm at New County Hall, Truro. The agenda will be published a week before at cornwall.gov.uk/community-and-living/communities-and-devolution/community-networks/truro-and-roseland/. People can also keep up to date with what’s happening locally in this area by joining the Truro and Roseland Community Network Area page, facebook.com/TruroRoselandCNA.