“Reg, please keep your disillusioned and slightly paranoid opinions in Portugal! We al remember the complete mess the tories made of this country - they are tough times globally not just in Cornwall! At least the government is doing what it can for the majority - not just the few who will be living in the Penthouse suites at the Par Marina!!”

“GREEN FOR ST AUSTELL? What's green about 5.000 properties being built in a clay pit miles from anywhere? 10.000 extra cars travelling to the St Austell petrol station. "Very Green," that's a nice safe road from the clay pits to St Austell. Newquay is mainly for seasonal employment. St Austell good for an extra few thousand jobs right now? I don't think so! Come on people, wake up, this is an arrogant political smoke screen. Enough of these idiots taking us for idiots. Get them out of power, and put Cameron on his toes working for progress. Cameron will put an end to this rubbish straight away. Has anyone given any thought at all to Labour running this laughable show for nearly 20 years, so if they are to be trusted, why is it we need 15.700 homes to be built before 2016?.”

“L Smith - you're absolutely right. It happened before within the South East when government then "redistributed" the South Easterners to Cornwall (and by the way they were paid handsomely to shift as well!) - just listen in the supermarket etc aisles. This is nothing to do with "proper" local people at all. Brown and his cronies have to go - they have ruined the Great Britain that once was and now, if allowed, will ruin the South West. They must be ousted at the earliest oppportunity.”

“The reality is that new housing developments in Cornwall are heavily marketed in 'certain areas' of inner city England - I'm sure you can read between the lines on that one!”

“All those who think this is a good idea, put your hands up and go to the back of the class. The current infrastructure cannot cope now, how the hell do you think another 10000+ people will manage to be inculcated into the current emotional, financial and pollitical strategies? There's not enough money for what's there, let alone add further burdens to the infrastructure - don't forget this includes: roads, doctors, dentists, schools, shops, all the gas, water and electric utilities, council requirements; social services, rubbish clearance and dumping etc etc - come on. Cameron get in and get these ideas out!”

“Fantastic news not just for St Austell but the area as a whole!
The Eden Project deserves praise as the catalyst for giving St Austell and Cornwall the potential for a greener way of life!”

“If these homes are for people outside cornwall, then no,no, we need affordable houses for our Cornish people who are in desperate need of affordable housing and JOBS.
Our Schools, Doctors and hospitals can not cope with the people living here now, so how on earth does Gordan Brown think we have facilities for 5,000 houses which will mean at least 10,000 more people.
Also our roads are not adequate for more people, it is bad enough trying to get around cornwall now in the Summer with all the chelsea tractors that come here.
Its high time Gordon Brown came here, live in a rented house near where he wants to build this TOWN without his car, and see how he can survive.”

“Cornwall does not need another 5000 houses.Where is the vision for the future Cornwall ? its dispressing that the powers to be want to turn it into another version of the SE , overcrowded. Sorry Cornwall has already been ruined !!”

“So a huge number of new homes in a mine dump.

Great idea, but who will buy them - I can't see them going to local low income families, and where will all these people be employed?

There are surely better solutions to the housing problems of the country and county than jaming thousands of extra people in an already over-crowded space?

This project will only lead to a drop in the quality of living for those already in the area, as well as those set to arrive.”

“The RSS figures are yet to be published. This green light to the next stage with Imery's "Eco" towns will serve only, in the sess pit of political goings on, as a watering down the impact of the housing need figures, soon to be released. Millions of tax payers money used to reasearch and highlight obviously a massive need. The 5.000 homes that would come from the Imery's sites help water down the impact for now. Politicans have no intention of going through with Eco towns. Eco town houses have to be built to a code 6 level which has never been done in Great Britain. The most important thing is that Conservative takes power in May of next year and scrap the eco town fiasco totally as voiced by David Cameron.”