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Just got off the phone to Graeme Hicks, Cornwall Council Cabinet member for highways and transport, who tells me that I should not read anything into the transfer of his planning responsibilities to his Cabinet colleague Mark Kaczmarek.

"To be honest I had too much to do," he says, "and all this does is to line up the council's staff directorships with the Cabinet portfolios. It's someting we've been thinking about for a while. It makes perfect sense to put planning with housing and I'm sure Mark will do an excellent job."

Graeme assures me that his calling in the IDeA to help train planning councillors is not controversial within the Cabinet and will go ahead as previously reported on this blog.