Transition Penwith

The St Buryan Community house committee (voluntary group who run and orperate the community building out at St Buryan) were the succcessful group who applied to be the model natural play site for Penwith District Councils play portfolio of projects that we submitted last year to the Big Lottery and consequently they received £30,000 funding to develop the project.

During the past few months the group and community have worked very hard to come up with ideas and elements for their natural play area, and they then engaged a local  environmental artist & designer to  those different ideas together up into a workable/feasible/insurable/affordable overall scheme.

The broad elements are;-

• tyre-ecoCave (4m diameter x apporx 6 ft high) -made using same tecnhniques as brighton earthship  - and the artist/builder from brighton will be leading the workshops and build. Structure will be a turfed dome shape allowing play inside and on top!
• plen type perfomance space( 8m diameter) - tiered and turfed seating with metal framed willow dome above.
• Swamp garden fed from rainwater collected/stored in underground tank then pumped through water feature (granite/slate tower) by child-powered see-saw.
• Musical maze comprising variety of wooden structure for making music
• Wood carvings and wooden climbing feature ( nautical based)
• Willow covered ramps and tunnels
• Mosaic path through area made from recycled tiles
• graffitti art
• walled garden area for food crops etc

The St Buryan community are hoping to share the workshops and building experience with lots of other groups/individuals who want to learn the techniques etc - and are just asking for some volunteer labour in return!

The first element will be the tyre eco-cave and workshops and building  will commence on Friday 8th August and proceed for approx 2 weeks depending on numbers of volunteers and weather.

On Wednesday 13th there will be wood carving, graffitti art, and mosaic workshops.  Please feel free to come down to the site to see whats happening and help out if possible (old clothes advisable!).

For more information on how to support his project, please contact Delia Web at PDC on  delia-mary.webb@penwith.gov.uk
 

Note: Image is of the Earthship Brighton project