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The UK is having a housing crisis with issues ranging from rising rents to people being priced out of the market. Cornwall, like much of the UK, is in need of more affordable housing.

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Cornwall planning: Developer tries to 'buy' housing permission by offering £2m assets to village for £1
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Councillors are torn while considering allowing 'once in a lifetime' deal for Charlestown
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Cornwall planning: People power wins as homes plan which split community is refused
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Many residents believed the development would ruin a valuable nature reserve
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Cornwall planning: Safety fears over affordable homes for 'proper job locals'
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Debate raged over desperate need for housing versus suitability of the site
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Cornwall planning: Hundreds of new homes among latest proposals
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A seaside hotel could be demolished to make way for 39 retirement flats
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Cornwall planning: Cornish town could get 325 new homes
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The development - which could include almost 100 affordable properties - would be built across six fields
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Affordable homes replace 'defective' houses on Cornwall estate
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'It's a beautiful house and well worth the wait. It means everything to us to come home'
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Locals cry 'please don't' as Brits leave cities for Cornwall
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People here are already struggling to find anywhere to live
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Cornwall planning: 'Unusual' amount of people object to new homes in World Heritage Site
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There are 79 households on the housing register seeking homes in the parish
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Cornwall planning: Ambulance driver's safety fears at new housing development
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Concerns have also been raised about the safety of local children who play in the area
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Cornwall planning: New housing estate would affect village's mining heritage
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A public meeting in the village hall was unanimous in its opposition
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People are abandoning cities and moving to Cornwall, figures show
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It's official, everyone wants to live here
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Cornwall almost has the worst second home problem in the UK - but not quite
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We came second on the list
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'Micro-homes' on a car park tackling Cornwall housing crisis and helping the homeless
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The first residents have been welcomed to the latest purpose-built modular homes site
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New Cornwall homes approved despite fears about possible tragedy
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'We should be very seriously conscious of things that have gone on in the past'
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Housing crisis charity welcomes people into new homes in huge development
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It's a mix of affordable rent properties, shared ownership homes, rent to buy and open market homes
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Cornwall planning: Proposal for 43 houses up for approval despite landslide concerns
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Cornwall Council was criticised in a coroner's report when a woman was killed as a result of a landslip a few years ago
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‘Living life amongst the dead’ as homeless crisis in Cornwall escalates
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Cornwall's housing problem has reached crisis point, with a 'perfect storm' of spiralling rents and low wages driving some locals to truly desperate measures
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Cornwall planning: Proposals for over 60 new homes in towns and villages
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A popular cookery school plans a new restaurant too
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Cornwall planning: Cornish town 'deserves better' than proposed housing development
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Heritage officials said it would be 'very harmful' to the character of the World Heritage Site
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Cornwall planning: Proposal to build 134-bed retirement 'village' on former Truro City FC ground
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The proposals include a care home and 50 retirement apartments
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'I'm ditching my £7.5m Cornish home to have a better life in London'
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The couple are looking forward to being able to use apps like Uber and Deliveroo
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Cornwall planning: Proposal for 20 new houses in Cornwall's largest village
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Latest applications also include plans for sheltered housing and eco-homes
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Cornwall Council to buy 50 houses for homeless families
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'We get more and more people finding themselves in dire situations due to the fact that they're losing their rented accommodation'
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Cornwall planning: Cornish village could get over 30 new homes
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There are also plans for a new football pitch for an increasingly popular club and an industrial estate expansion
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