THIRTEEN applicants have applied for the three vacant Newlyn Harbour Commission posts, it was revealed at the latest meeting of the port authority.
The hopeful candidates are competing for the three spaces vacated by recently sacked commissioners John Lambourn and Nick Howell, as well as Juliet Taylor whose contract expired earlier in the year.
At the meeting at the Centre in Newlyn yesterday, chairman Gilbert McCabe told the public the three former commissioners were welcome to reapply but not to bother while he sat on the head of the board.
Mr McCabe explained one of the posts has to be filled by a sea-going fishing person for which they have had two or three applicants.
It was also revealed at the meeting that the Department for Transport had declined the offer of sitting on the panel to appoint the new members.
Meanwhile, an open community meeting has been scheduled by the newly reformed Newlyn Association for November 21 to tackle the question, how can we take Newlyn forward?
Among those invited are St Ives MP Andrew George, British Ports Association Director David Whitehead and Transport Ministers Norman Baker and Mike Penning.
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