The following report came via the Plymouth Mineral and Mining Club and the
action required is more urgent than their regular journal allows.
Planning permission is being sought from Carrick District Council by the
owners of the Carvedras Smelting Works, Truro, to demolish the extant
buildings on the site. The works is presently being used for light
engineering; the owners, needless to say, want to build houses on the area.
Carvedras is probably the best preserved smelting works in Cornwall and is
doubly interesting for its inner city location, or as close as Cornwall can
come to that term.
D B Barton's book, 'A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall'
naturally features Carvedras and includes an excellent photograph on page 215.
Anyone who has an interest in this smelting works should write to Carrick
District Council.
The deadline for letters is Wednesday 8 November.
Carrick's reference is: Truro 0P03/1481/00/N.
Carrick's notice says: please quote the above reference number and your own
postal address.
Respond to: D Ballard, Chief Planning & Leisure Services Officer, Carrick
House, Pydar Street, Truro TR1 1EB.
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