The £250,000 plans for the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club were unveiled to an audience for local residents and press.

The planning application was submitted to Carrick Council and composes of a 59 metre jetty with floating hammer-head pontoon; a dinghy hardstanding twice the size of the existing one and a lecture room and an amenity block.

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The jetty will cater for up to six visiting yachts as well as visiting tenders,the meeting was told.

The club's rear commodore Henry Roberts said the plans provided short stay facilities which Falmouth badly needed for visiting yachtsmen.

"Most will go no further than Plymouth. It's not worth another day's travel to come down here," he told the 25 people present. "They need to be able to leave their dinghy in safety and that's a problem in Falmouth at present."

They wanted to secure to a pontoon at all states of the tide, take on water there and have adequate washing facilities.

Opponents to the scheme accused the club of destroying the foreshore with concrete.

Falmouth Town Council have accepted the decision by the Environment Secretary to allow the large Asda store at Kernick.

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But they sympathised with their colleagues in Penryn saying there was no mention of the town in the inspector's report and that the building of the superstore would lead to only the Post Office remaining in the town.

Mrs Brenda Bowers mayor said both the application by Asda and by Tesco had been turned down by Falmouth Town Council.

"I said it would mean the end of Penryn and we know it," she said. "The only shop left will bew the Post Office.

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She said she found it hard to understand how the application went through.

A one way traffic system for Flushing is being investigated as a solution to the problems in Coventry Road.

Lillian Strike a parish councillor, said a SWEB lorry had to back into the Kersey Road junction.

"When the school finishes there are cars coming from both ways and it is chaos," said Jim Strike.