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Service station allowed to sell alcohol around the clock

'The most Corbusier building in Britain' listed

‘The most Corbusier building in Britain’ listed Source:  Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections Saltash Library, completed in 1963 and designed by Royston Summers of Cornwall County Architects’ Department, has been handed a Grade II listing In an article in the AJ in 1987, Summers (1931-2012) described the library, which is still in use today, as ‘the most Corbusier building in Britain’. Advertisement According to Historic England, the textured concrete structure is ‘a striking and well-articulated example of post-war library design’, drawing reference from famous Modernist architect Le Corbusier’s Palace of Justice at Chandigarh, which began construction in 1951. Saltash library was one of a series of five new branch libraries to be built by the council in the 1960s. The others were at St Austell, Newquay, Torpoint, and Helston. All of them were designed by the County Architects’ Department under FK Hicklin, who recruited newly-qualified architect

Falmouth Town Council tax rate highest in county

Read next: Mayor denies claim of rail-roading through 21% council tax increase At a meeting of Falmouth Town Council s finance and general purposes committee this week, during a briefing about the projected four year budget, concerns were raised that money for Princess Pavilions was budgeted for the next four years. Coun Alan Jewell told the meeting that he was led to believe this was a one off payment in the first year, but we are going into the second third and fourth year and still got a lot of money going in there, he said. I just don t want the people of Falmouth having put their hands in for the precept for second third and fourth years. The one year I weren t happy with it but it went through and I was told that we d take a one off hit. I won t be happy if the people if Falmouth have got to pay for the second, third and fourth year.