Economy and Development
The area consists of terraced miners' cottages and rather barren industrialisation. With the demise of this economic activity, many thousands of jobs were lost and Tuckingmill became a bleak post-industrialisation urban area. However, in recent years regeneration has picked up and improvements are expected over the next few years. Kerrier Council's bid for £23 million from the BIG Lottery Fund was successful - and announced in November 2007. The grant will be used to re-build the Pool area between Redruth and Camborne (Pool sits at the top of East Hill, immediately next to Tuckingmill).
A Cornish property development firm called Porthia acquired a huge site at the centre of Tuckingmill. The site includes an old Fuseworks building and brownfields land previously mined by South Crofty. It was their intention to transform this site into "New Tuckingmill" - a development of over 400 new homes as well as commercial space and community facilities.Porthia's environmental proposal failed to satisfy Kerrier Council, so it stalled.
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