Getting Back to Normal
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Inside: Creative Stonehouse—the great stuff that’s happened during lockdown GETTING BACK TO NORMAL Outline plan for community hub The image above is the Millfields and help revitalise the district. We inform Block D2’s design and, as a be at ease and use the improved Trust’s vision of a building that want to encourage and promote a highlight, it will have a crow’s nest public realm and gardens near will transform the west end of vibrant community.” viewing platform on the eighth Battery Street, where there will be Union Street and the Stonehouse The four blocks on the site, floor as part of a conference centre. a north-south route connecting community beyond. adjacent to the Genesis Building, Visitors will have panoramic views North Stonehouse to Millbay. With the unassuming temporary are connected at ground level by across the city and Plymouth Sound The Millfields Trust says it will take name of Block D, the stunning an arched courtyard, gardens, and and access to a bridge leading to care to prevent the surrounding complex comprises four fully pathways to be used as meeting the top floor of D1, where there is a area’s gentrification as the build accessible blocks made up of high- places, a venue for outdoor shows second conference centre. gets underway. quality apartments, commercial and exhibitions or just for people to All the proposed activities at the The completed building will have units, workspaces, outdoor sit or linger. top of the buildings will be publicly sustainable transport solutions, gardens, and a budget hotel. Block D1 has a welcoming accessible – for the residents of including a mobility hub and The aim is to create an iconic, entrance, a café or coffee shop, Millfields, Stonehouse and the appropriate car parking levels in a eco-friendly, and sustainable shared co-working, and a wider community reconfigured car park space at the building that is a beacon for the mezzanine. There will be a mix of Block D3 is mainly residential front of HQ and within HQ. neighbourhood and a place for the apartments on the upper floors, apartments facing East Street City architects Clifton Emery community to use and meet. including outdoor space and a and central green space. Block Design are currently developing Millfields Trust chief executive 20-bed bespoke hotel. Residents D4 will be small commercial units the plans to lodge a planning Roger Pipe said: “This will be a will have access to the external designed for arts and crafts use. application in May or June. community hub in which everyone areas, including balconies and roof A significant feature of the hub is It is part of Plymouth’s Resurgam is welcome. Our ambition is for it to terraces. that it will feel open and welcoming. regeneration and recovery plan become the centre of Stonehouse Navy and Union Street history will Everyone will be encouraged to following the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re supported by Page 2 The Stonehouse Voice Scrapstore getting ready to open A message from the Scrapstore: Our volunteers are getting ready are wanting to make a group visit, “By the time you lovely people are to return, it will be different for them please give us a call to discuss. reading this we are hopeful that our too! More than 4,000 Bags of Loveliness, doors will be properly open, not just So, we hope that from 10am on Respect, Hope, Learning, Creativity, ‘call and collect”’or ‘call and drop off’ Tuesday, April 13, we will be able to Craft-fullness, Play and of course but that we will be welcoming you have 10 shoppers in the store at any Happiness have been distributed to back in. time, we still have a one-way system families across the City and beyond. Of course, it’s not going to be the in place. We still have a few bags left so same, for many reasons it will be But there will be more space; please ask. With our Box of scrap different, it has certainly been a for the time being our coffee and and loose parts project we are busy challenge since we last spoke to you. workshop area will disappear giving making sure that our Early years and The small but beautifully formed more room to display and shop. play providers have some of what team has been working incredibly Until the next turn in the ‘roadmap’ they need to make those special hard to make the Scrapstore a safe we will open on Tuesdays and moments for children and young and welcoming place for the future. Thursdays from 10-2, but if you people. or Wednesdays. lockdowns, restrictions, and school character, that’s what the area is The group is a space for home closures! But now things are on about.” educating parents and children to the up, we are excited to get stuck Hopefully Stonehouse stays local meet, socialise and play. back in to working with our 11 and full of character, and not get There’s a friendly atmosphere partner schools across Stonehouse, gentrified in time. It’s much better with vegan food and snacks served Devonport and Whitleigh. We are to have colour and character in my and music playing. also going to be actively working in opinion. An indoor and enclosed outdoor community engagement so keep Tom is also interested in setting space are available for the children an eye out for opportunities with up a Stonehouse Magic Circle so to run around safely. your local community hubs! As get in touch with him if you’re There are no formal lessons. It’s we move into the Summer, there interested. merely an opportunity for children will be pop-up performances and and their parents to develop workshops for young people and friendships and support each other their families to get involved in. We in a relaxed setting. hope to see you at some of those! Contact chioribennett@gmail. Want to know more or get com for details. involved with our project? Drop us a line at jess.blackledge@ Welcome theatreroyal.comor follow us on boxes social media. The Devon and Cornwall Furniture Children’s Reuse Project has secured funding from Plymouth City Council to Centre help purchase white goods including Your local Children’s Centre A busy lockdown for the Scrapstore volunteers making Bags of Happiness cookers, washing machines, and continues to be there for you fridge freezers to give to people and your children under five, who are referred to them for free. and we can provide support and It’s part of a scheme called DCFRP information to families in the Volunteers Delivery Warmer Home 4u that makes it Stonehouse area. easier for people to move into a Check our Green Ark and Manor wanted service new home. Street Children’s Centre Facebook Amber Amare The package includes a Welcome page, which is full of ideas to do The Kintsugi Project will soon be A new cycle delivery service To Your New Home boxes - with your little ones as well as live launching a community fridge in has been launched in Stoke and everything in the box is brand new stories, songs, and activities. Stonehouse. Stonehouse. Local and will include a duvet, pillows, We are running two virtual groups A community fridge is a space Steve Turner, who runs Pedal Box, bedding, 16-piece cutlery set and a week using TEAMS and are where anyone can take or donate is currently delivering for the Heyl videographer tea towels. accepting referrals for one-to-one food that would otherwise go to and Roam bakeries. Freelance videographer Amber At the organisation’s base in support and baby massage. waste. He said: “I would love to provide Amare lives in North Stonehouse Union Street, Alison Turner, chair of For more information, visit It will be open to all, fostering a delivery to more residents of and works with local companies the DCFRP said: “We are trying to our Facebook page or call spirit of sharing, reducing social Stonehouse and connect them and business to create social get some funding to purchase bath 07971094826 or 07921491876. isolation, and mutual aid. with businesses in the area.” content. She also works on funded towels and bathmats to go into Food waste is a big issue and Contact him through short courses to guide local the boxes. This is so people will it’s estimated that a third of all his Facebook page @ Stonehouse companies into creating their own not have to worry about so many food gets wasted. Most of this is pedalboxplymouth or email at videos. necessities when they move home avoidable! [email protected] Street games She studied at Plymouth or into a new home. The Stonehouse Community Tom Mills, who has taken over the College of Art and is director, “This is of course as well as all Fridge, hosted by Leadworks CIC Old Morgue building in Manor cinematographer and sound of the free of charge furniture we and the Kintsugi Project, helps Infinite Street, is looking to spread some recordist. At 25, she has donate to people in need free of cut food waste, build stronger fun across the neighbourhood. already been commissioned by charge.“ bonds within the community and Minds He wants to start a street game organisations such as Google, redistributes good quality food. Chi Bennett will be running a project which involves setting up Kelly’s Ice Cream, Tate Modern, We are looking for volunteers home education support group With Flying 10 folding tables to encourage New Look and Intersex UK.