A Councillor has spoken out following the announcement that regional quangos expect 68,700 new houses to be built in Cornwall in the next 20 years. Andrew Long, a Callington Town and Caradon District Council Councillor, has said that new housing in the area should be focussed to meet local needs. 'We need proper local needs housing that is backed up by improvements in the infrastructure – not a blind acceptance of a flawed housing system dictated by the Westminster Village,' he said. 'It is unworkable to expect communities to continue to have to accommodate hundreds of new houses without changes in the infrastructure to meet the new increase in population. 'Callington, for example, has a situation where the health centre is full and turning away new patients, the community college is full and the primary school is quickly filling up. Where are all the new residents going to access these basic facilities?' He added that it is irresponsible in the extreme for Caradon to continue to build large-scale housing estates in and around the town when the basic facilities will be unable to cope.
