Plans for car park on St Ives Parish Church site mooted

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St Ives Town Councillors are to discuss a controversial proposal to build a multi-storey car park on the site of St Ives Parish Church.

The church, which has dominated the town for hundreds of years, "is little used" according to Councillor Harry Newton.

"We need to get on with the de-pedestrianization of St Ives", he said. "Only yesterday I saw motorists being forced off the pavements in Tregenna Hill by impatient pedestrians. One day soon a car is going to get scratched."

Cllr Newton added that a multi-storey car park on the site of a razed St Ives Parish Church could become a "visitor attraction second only to the Taj Mahal or Great Wall of China."