It is understood that the land belongs to Cornwall Council and is leased to Pendennis Castle. It appears the travellers arrived yesterday and broke down the wooden posts to get in. The area is known as the Hornworks which are a set of earthworks crossing the neck of the peninsular to the north-west of Pendennis Castle.
The travellers have set up camp at The Hornworks Cllr Dave Saunby has been up to the site and reported the matter to the Cornwall councillor for the area Laurie Magowan. We had a problem last year with boy racers driving their cars around the field, which is also used by dog walkers, he said.
It s all change at Cornwall Council as the Conservative Group takes overall majority control. For the past four years there has been a Liberal Democrat-Independent leadership at the council, but all that has changed following yesterday s local elections. The Conservatives took 47 seats, polling 37% of the votes. Meanwhile the Liberal Democrat Group took only 14 seats this time, polling 20% of the votes. Independent candidates did one better, taking 15 of the seats, with 17% of the votes. Mebyon Kernow now has five councillors, and polled 5% of the votes. Labour has four seats on the council, with 10% of the vote taken. The Green Party now has its first candidate on the council, after Tamsyn Widdon was elected to Penryn, with the party polling 10% of the votes.