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The town's tool-ideas notes had the right title and sources but another town's text in the body, written by a run working on two places at once. They have been rewritten with Newquay's own: what shipped, how the tide model was calibrated and against what, which sources refuse our requests, and the one thing most worth building next — a proper lifeguard-season field, so these dates stop being prose somebody has to retype every spring.
Two things turn over at the start of November and neither page mentioned it. On the parking page: from 1 November the winter tariff takes over, South Fistral is free altogether until 31 March, and the two Cornwall Council car parks both charge less and stop charging at 4pm rather than 6pm. We re-checked every price against the operators' own tariffs and they were all correct. On the sea cleanliness page: England's bathing season ended on 30 September, so the Environment Agency has stopped its weekly sampling here and its pollution-risk forecasts are paused until May. The ratings shown are the 2025 classifications, which are still the most recent published; the 2026 ones are due in late November. The live storm-overflow feed keeps running all winter, which is the half that matters now.
Type a rent and see it beside the most that Universal Credit or Housing Benefit can pay towards a home of that size in Newquay, and how much would be left to find. It shows the limit only, not what any household would be paid. Also added the 2026/27 council tax bands, with Cornwall's premium on second and empty homes.
The coast path to Crantock crosses the Gannel estuary on foot at two points — Penpol Tidal Footbridge and the Fern Pit crossing — and both disappear under the tide for part of every day. Nobody publishes a live feed for either, so this is a board where walkers and neighbours say what they found, alongside official tide times and the RNLI's own account of a 2016 rescue here.
The town page now opens with a colored-pencil drawing of the grassy headland and slate cliffs above one of Newquay's Atlantic surf beaches, lines of swell rolling in toward the sand.
Newquay has ten designated bathing waters. This new tool shows, live, whether a monitored storm overflow is spilling near each beach right now — read from South West Water's near-real-time feed — next to the Environment Agency's official rating for how clean each beach's water is normally. It's honest about its limits. A quiet overflow isn't an all-clear: it's one source of pollution, not the whole picture, and it's never a judgement that the water is safe. After heavy rain the advice is to stay out of the water for a day or two, whatever the page shows. For the fullest picture it links Surfers Against Sewage and the EA's own beach profiles.
A new tool shows where Newquay's main buses are right now — how far each one is from the bus station and which way it is heading, in plain words. It follows the Truro routes (85, 87, 91 and 93), the coast road to Padstow and the airport (56), with the Atlantic Coast Line train to Par alongside. The live positions come from the Bus Open Data Service. The page says plainly that the listed frequencies are the scheduled service, not a countdown, and that Cornwall's bus network is being revised from 26 July 2026.
Pick how long you're staying and see which town car park is cheapest today, cheapest first. It uses each operator's own tariff and shows the right rate for the season — summer or the cheaper winter prices, including free winter parking at South Fistral.
Wave size, swell and whether the wind is offshore for Fistral, the town beaches, Porth, Watergate Bay and Crantock — from open weather models, refreshed through the day, with an honest line on what model forecasts can and can't tell you. The most-asked-for tool in Newquay since we arrived.
Newquay joins with three tools built from a first research pass: a nine-beach guide (with 2026 RNLI dates, the beach-by-beach dog rules, and the Whipsiderry closure), straight answers to common questions (the booked-only tip, the Minor Injury Unit's Wednesday closure, the honest NHS-dentist situation), and a who-to-call card grouped by what you need — including foodbank sessions and the housing options line. Everything time-sensitive carries the date we checked it.
Buses heading into Newquay have been diverting via Trenance Road since 4 September, because of the one-way system on Cliff Road for the Mid Cornwall Metro works. They cannot call at Newquay Railway Station or Tolcarne Beach, and they miss Trenance Gardens, Newquay Zoo, Hilgrove Road and Barrowfield Hotel on the way in; buses leaving town are unaffected. Transport for Cornwall expects this until 31 March 2027. The bus page now says so, and the warning it used to carry about the network being revised 'from 26 July' has been replaced with what actually happened: no Newquay route number changed, and the 85 now also serves Treloggan. The common questions page has Boardmasters 2027 as well — 4 to 8 August, back at Watergate Bay.
The guide had Watergate Bay, Towan and Crantock patrolled 'daily 2 May through late September' and stopped there. The RNLI patrols all three at weekends from 3 to 18 October and every day over half term, 24 October to 1 November, and Fistral every day until 1 November. Saying nothing about that is the wrong way round to be wrong, so all nine beaches now carry their actual 2026 dates — including Porth, Great Western and Tolcarne, which we had understated in the other direction and which finished on 27 September. There is also a new answer to 'is there a lifeguard on the beach at the moment', and a plain warning that from 2 November nobody is watching any Newquay beach until the spring.
Our pages said Newquay Hospital's Minor Injury Unit was walk-in, 8am to 8pm Thursday to Tuesday and closed Wednesdays. That was right when we wrote it in June and it is not right now: Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said on 27 August that the unit is temporarily closed because it does not have enough specialist clinicians, and that it planned to reopen from 5 October on reduced days it had not yet named. The rest of the hospital is open as normal. We are sorry — if you walked up there on our say-so, that is our mistake. Both the contacts page and the common questions page now say the unit is closed and name the nearest walk-in units instead: St Austell 8am to 8pm, Bodmin and Camborne Redruth 8am to 10pm. We will update again once the Trust publishes which days it reopens on.
Newquay is a town where the tide decides things, and until now every tool that depended on it sent you somewhere else to look it up. There is now a tide times page: today's high and low water and the week ahead, with the Gannel crossings, the walk round to Whipsiderry and the town beaches in mind. One caveat, stated plainly. The official tide tables for the port need a licence key we do not have, so these come from a global tide model. We checked it against published Newquay tide tables across 26 successive tides: it ran 34 minutes early on every one, so the times here are shifted 34 minutes later to match, and its tidal range came within 5% so that is left alone. Heights are relative to mean sea level rather than chart datum, so low water shows as a negative number, about 4.3 m below what a printed tide table gives. Good enough to plan a walk or a swim around — not good enough to navigate by, and not a substitute for a tide table if you are cutting it fine.