This Website has been produced by a group of residents of Saltash and the surrounding area of South East Cornwall. It sets out briefly our vision for how the town and surrounding villages – the Saltash Gateway area – might develop over the next 20 years.

Unlike many ‘development plans’ produced by commercial developers or by the Planning Authorities, our Community Plan takes at its starting point the question: what do we, the people living here, actually want? If we want to make Saltash a better place to live, work, shop, study, raise families or grow old in, how do we achieve that?

Our conclusions are the result of two years worth of research, consultation, discussion and debate, that have involved hundreds of residents of all ages, from all over the Gateway Area. We have tried to include this diversity of views in the Plan. We have tried to think big, and to be creative in our thinking.

We hope that you will take the time to read the Saltash Gateway Community Action Plan, and to consider the ideas in it. If you have already been involved in the debate, some of them will be familiar to you. Or you may disagree with some of them. Or may you have other ideas, other projects, that could be added to the Plan. Whatever your views, we would like to hear from you.

And if you, like us, want to get actively involved in making some of these ideas happen, we hope you will consider joining us for the next stage of the process. This is the creation of the Saltash Gateway Community Interest Company, an open and democratic organisation, owned and managed by the community, that will begin to make these changes happen. Membership is free, and is open to anyone over the age of 18 who lives, works or studies in the Saltash Gateway area. You can find more information, and an application form, on the pages relating to the CIC.