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FRIENDS OF LONG ROCK MEXICO CROSSING

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Minutes of Meeting Thu 19 09 2013 Present Apologies Rob Nance, Carolyn Trevivian, Dick Thatcher, Mike Bott, Helen Eynon, Jane Bailey, Pip Penney Nick Tregenza

1 Director Of Health & Wellbeing sent letter to Cornwall Council (CC), asking it to consider health & wellbeing in its decision. This has had a response from M Gibbons, CC, marked respondent 5.

2 Ian Holmes RN suggested that as Ian has been a very active supporter of the campaign, we should ask him if he would like to join the Committee. All agreed. Also agreed that 8 people would need to be maximum number on Committee.

3 High Profile Support Agreed that, other than our MP, we lack high-profile support which would help gain attention to the cause. Janet Street-Porter was discussed as a possible ally, CT will ask her if she would be willing to lend her name to our campaign. PP will ask SP & AR if they will also do this.

4 Allan Morgan is a Fellow Of The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers and has offered to support us. He is an expert in rail safety & can advise on possible safety features. He agrees that it is an absurd stance for Network Rail (NR) & CC to take that nothing would be appropriate at this crossing in terms of safety enhancements. HE will contact him after we hear result of CC meeting on Fri between Peter Marsh of CC & his legal advisor.

5 CC Councillor Bert Biscoe has not responded to NT informing him of the ability of elected CC members to call in decisions made by CC officers & asking him to do this.

CC Councillor Roy Mann As above - not got back to us on anything.

7 Closure Advert In Press CC must advertise decisions. MB rang Vanessa Davis (VD) because this wasnt done. VD said it was & quoted date & name of publication. MB told VD he had checked, it was not published. MB asked VD if she is going to meeting with PM on Fri, she confirmed & said they will be considering the objections. JB queried timescale: surely it will take longer than a day to look through so many objections. CT asked if Jeremy Edwards of CC will be there: not known. MB said if PM etc decide on Fri to go the Secretary of State (SoS), we need RM & BB to pin them down to get them to call the decision in.

8 Prof David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor Of The Public Understanding Of Risk of Cambridge Uni has confirmed that NTs interpretation of the risk figures is right.

9 Ludgvan Parish Council (LPC) DT met Richard Sargeant (RS) of LPC recently, asked what he & LPC are doing for us, RS said What were after is the end product...we dont want to cause any more problems.

10 JB Yellow Ribbon Campaign has proved popular in the village. JB has been working on ideas for further actions & developing designs. It depends on what happens next though. If things go against us, we need to ratchet things up, re CC. JB working on designs etc. Other possible actions discussed. JB has joined the Open Shed organisation in Causewayhead, Penzance, as they are a useful local resource (eg fix bikes & PCs).

11 Timeframe & CC It would be good to know what CCs timeframe is, they are not telling us what they are doing, not clear who to ask, CT will phone JE on Fri & see if he knows anything. CT suggests that we ask NT to ask BB after the meeting tomorrow, HE suggested that we could ask CC via its facebook site.

12 Freedom Of Information DT submitted request re opposing petition & was sent a poor copy with the signature column of the paper petition missing and no email addresses on the e-petition. 40% of email signatures on e-petition were not verified & yet have been counted.

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