On Tuesday 14th March I sat down to watch 'Cornish Chronicles,' there were two Polperro fishermen talking about the harbour, and their love of the fact that it has stayed the same for generations, and how they are fed up with people coming here to live because they love the place, and then all they want to do is make 'radical changes'

These two men are members of the Polperro Harbour Trustees, dedicated to preserving our historic harbour, but what they neglected to say last year whilst filming for this TV series is, the Trustees were preparing a planning application, which is available for all to see at Caradon planning reception, Liskeard.

These plans will alter the look of the quay completely with stores being built from end to end.

If they really want to keep our harbour looking the same, and stop it from looking like a lump of concrete, which appears to be their favourite building material, why don't they invest the many thousands of pounds they have available for building stores, on buying one of the harbour side cottages instead, and turn it back into stores which is what a lot of them were, I'm sure none of us will miss one holiday cottage, and it would be visually beneficial to us all, and village traders won't lose out from lack of visitors due to ugly harbour syndrome.

Whilst we're on the subject of preserving our inheritance perhaps the Trustees could try supporting the application for registration of public rights of way around the harbour, which would do all our future generations a favour.

MS. L. LIBBY

Polperro.