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Lisa Letcher
23 June 2025
Cornwall Council's new administration has reversed major plans to effectively privatise over a dozen car parks and sell off the airport, in a significant policy reversal.
The decision to overturn the previous council leadership's proposals comes amid substantial public discontent about potential changes to 19 car parks, which could have seen the introduction of surveillance cameras by private enforcement firms.
The two proposals, put forward by the ousted administration on May 1, have been reviewed and cancelled, in what the local authority's leaders says is "about common sense".
The administration expressed its intention to cancel these plans in order to safeguard essential services and key assets for Cornwall's future.
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