St Stephens By Launceston Rural Parish Council

Dates: 5 September 2026 – March 2027

National Highways will be carrying out essential safety improvements to junctions along the A30 between Kennards House and Five Lanes. Significant delays are expected, particularly on Fridays and over weekends, so please plan ahead and allow extra time for your journeys.

Key Traffic Measures & Speed Limits

• From 7 September 2026 to March 2027: The A30 will be reduced to one lane in each direction 24/7.
• Reduced speed limits of 40mph and 50mph will be enforced through the work area.
• 24/7 free vehicle recovery will be available within the works zone.

Overnight A30 Road Closures (9pm – 6am) Signed diversions will be in place via Launceston, Carkeel Roundabout, the A38, and Carminow during full overnight closures on the following dates:

• 5 – 10 September: Full closure in both directions between Five Lanes and Kennards House.
• 23 September: Full closure westbound only.
• 30 September: Full closure in both directions.

Specific Junction Closures

• Plusha Junction (Westbound): Closed 24/7 from 4 September 2026 until January 2027 (starts 6am). Note: The local short diversion route will not be available during full A30 overnight closures while this junction is closed.
• Polyphant Junction (Eastbound into Holyway Cross): Closed 24/7 from 7 September until November 2026 (starts 6am).

Local Bus Services

• Eastbound: The bus stop at Five Lanes / Altarnun remains unaffected.
• Westbound (Plusha): Buses will be routed through the service station area to rejoin the A30 westbound during the Plusha junction closure.
• Polyphant: During overnight Polyphant junction closures, the final bus of the evening will be guided through the work site by the project team.

Note: Work schedules and closures may change at short notice due to weather or operational issues. Residents are advised to check the National Highways daily closures page before traveling.

For live traffic updates, diversion maps, and schedule changes, visit the National Highways A30 Project Page.

Cornwall Council is working with local communities to share important road safety messages and make our roads safer for everyone.

To support this, they have created a Safer Roads Campaign Toolkit – a practical resource that helps communities raise awareness and take action locally.

You can view the Toolikit information by following this link.

Cornwall Council has released a useful booklet with information to help you warm, well, happy and safe this winter.

You can download the Winter Wellbeing booklet by clicking on this link.

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has released its Police and Crime Plan for 2025.

Give the Police and Crime Plan a read by following this link.

You can also download a printer-friendly PDF version by following this link.

If GCSE results day didn’t go to plan yesterday for a young person in your life, remember that a few numbers on a piece of paper do not determine the rest of their life.

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MISSION STATEMENT

Civility and respect should be at the heart of public life, and good governance is fundamental to ensuring an effective and well-functioning democracy at all levels.

The intimidation, abuse, bullying and harassment of councillors, clerks and council staff, in person or online, is unacceptable, whether by councillors, clerks, council staff, or public members.

This can prevent councils from functioning effectively, councillors from representing local people, discourage people from getting involved, including standing for election, and undermine public confidence and trust in local democracy.

NALC, county associations and OVW, as the membership organisations
representing the first tier of local government in England and Wales, and the SLCC, as the professional body for clerks, are committed to working together to promote civility and respect in public life, good governance, positive debate and supporting the well-being of councillors, professional officers and staff.

To that end, the Civility and Respect Working Group will be working to deliver tangible resources, actions and interventions in four main areas: providing councils with the tools to support good governance; lobbying to strengthen the standards regime and encouraging more people to get involved; training; and processes to intervene to provide support to struggling councils.

Adopted 5 January 2023

St Stephen by Launceston Rural Parish has 3 Defibrillators located at Langore Village Hall (on the outside wall to the front of the Village Hall), in Truscott close to the Noticeboard (signposted to the yard of Truscott Farm to the left of the Noticeboard) and in Dutson at the entrance to Homeleigh Garden Centre by the Disabled Parking.  All are monitored regularly by Parish Councillors and/or parishioners who then send their reports to The Circuit, the National Defibrillator Network.  Many thanks to the British Heart Foundation for supplying our Defibrillators and to our Divisional Member Cllr Paynter, the Parish Day Committee and Homeleigh Garden Centre for their generous donations.

May 2023

Cornwall Council has released a useful booklet with information to help you warm, well, happy and safe this winter.

You can download the Winter Wellbeing booklet by clicking on this link.