Living Landmarks Lottery win for the Heartlands project, Pool Cornwall

Kerrier District Council is delighted to announce that it has been successfully awarded over £22million towards the Heartlands Living Landmarks project.

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The funding has been awarded by the Big Lottery Fund's Living Landmarks programme, a funding programme which has awarded only three grants at this level across the whole of the United Kingdom, with Heartlands being the only successful project in England.  The Big Lottery investment is now added to the significant funding committed by English Partnerships and Kerrier District Council to ensure that the project can now be delivered.

BIG celebrations are getting underway in Cornwall with the news that Cornwall's Heartlands project has won through and been awarded over £22 million by the Big Lottery Fund's Living Landmark's programme to transform the area into a world heritage site.

The Heartlands scheme, led by Kerrier District Council, has been given the multi-million pound backing by the Big Lottery Fund to transform 7.5 hectares of former mining land in Pool, between Redruth and Camborne, into a World Heritage Site and parkland.

Mark Cotton, Big Lottery Fund Head of Region for the South West, said: "The Fund is delighted to announce the success of Cornwall's Heartlands. This follows a lot of hard work by the project - and some extremely tough decisions by the Fund's Living Landmarks committee. I am looking forward to seeing this truly ground-breaking project come to life and capturing the imagination of the people of Cornwall and individuals across the country. This award will create a truly great place to live, work and play."

Heartlands is a community-led vision to transform Cornwall's most derelict urban area into a truly inspirational cultural landscape. The site will include formal gardens, exciting play-space, performance space for events for over 4,000 people and new cycle links to local trails. Heartlands will include stunning new public art with a range of water features, sculpture and contemporary architecture directly complementing the Grade 2* Listed Robinson's Shaft mine complex.

There will be new education and health facilities for local people and the scheme has been designed to be a positive part of everyday life. Heartlands will act as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the Camborne-Pool-Redruth area.