More pictures of the Carlyon Bay beaches
Find out more about eel grass from Cornwall Wildlife Trust
More on moths at Carlyon Bay from the Cornwall Moth Group
Press reports
Can this really happen to a Cornish beach? (Daily Telegraph 6 August 2003)
Cornish 'Costa' triggers outcry (The Guardian 8 September 2003)
The £200m home plan that lies buried in the sand (Daily Telegraph 18 September 2004)
Costa del Britain: Cornwall's changing coastline (The Independent 3 September 2006)
The battle to save Carlyon Bay from the developers (The Independent 22 June 2007 )
Has the tide turned for Cornwall? (Management Today 10 July 2008)
Cornish home scheme on the rocks as rows rage (Observer 19 October 2008) Options explored for beach village (Western Morning News 22 September 2009) Cornwall beach development creates new waves of controversy (The Guardian 8 November 2009) Village greens to be envied (Sunday Telegraph 7 February 2010)
MORE ACTION GROUPS CONCERNED ABOUT OVER-DEVELOPMENT Save Our Unspoilt Land is fighting plans for hundreds of houses on farmland to the north of St Austell - http://www.staustellsouls.com/ Trelawney Alliance is campaigning against the mass building of more and more housing estates in Cornwall - http://trelawney-alliance.org/ Save Our Green Spaces campaigns for the preservation of the South West's open spaces - http://www.saveourgreenspaces.org/index.html Friends of Penzance Harbour is a local action group against the destruction of a beach at Battery Rocks to make way for a new Isles of Scilly ferry terminal - http://www.friendsofpzharbour.org/