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Heartlands
English Partnerships, along with the Camborne Pool Redruth Regeneration Company (CPR), and Kerrier District Council are partners in a project to reinvigorate an area in Cornwall known as The Heartlands.
Located in Pool, Heartlands borders an area from Trevenson Road in the north, Station Road in the east and Dudnance Lane in the west, with Robinson’s Shaft complex in between.
It is intended that Heartlands will be the UK’s first purpose designed Zero Energy Park, with the energy generated on site equalling or exceeding that expended to run and maintain the project.
Project funding
We have invested £8m towards the purchase of 27 acres of brownfield land in Pool and this will provide an added impetus to the development of the Heartlands Project, Cornwall’s unique World Heritage Site.
The Heartlands Project has received £22m from the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks programme, and this will assist in dramatically transforming the largely derelict former mining land.
Heritage park
It will celebrate the culture of Cornwall and create a landscaped heritage park containing formal gardens, play spaces, an outdoor auditorium for 4,000 spectators, public art and water features.
Other major attractions planned for the new park include the:
- Bickford and Robinson’s mine shafts
- Cornish Diaspora Gardens
- Red River Water Feature
- Cornish Sensory
- Arts Garden.
A range of industrial artefacts and tramways will also be retained and restored, providing pedestrian routes through the site and connecting with Pool village.
Work is expected to commence in January 2009 and will conclude in 2010.
