The Heartlands project is a winner!

At the end of last year the BIG Lottery announced Heartlands has been awarded over £22 million from the Living Landmarks Fund to deliver this project.

Over the next few months the project team will be developing full detailed drawings and contract documents. These will go out to tender in the summer and construction work will begin at the end of 2008, initially at Robinsons Shaft and adjacent new buildings. In the spring of 2009 construction and planting work is scheduled to start to create the new park. The scheme should be completed in Spring 2010.

Kerrier District Council is the accountable body for the project and is managing the detailed design, commissioning and community engagement process as the scheme moves forward, as well as being a co-funder. Kerrier is working with a project steering group made up of strategic partners, including co-funders English Partnerships, Carn Brea Parish Council, CPR Regeneration, the World Heritage Site Team, Cornwall County Council and the Land Restoration Trust. The partnership works closely with important community organisations such as the Carn Brea Regeneration Advisory Committee.

Over the next year work will begin to establish a new, permanent Heartlands Trust which will ensure the sustainable management of the project's assets and facilities for the long term benefit of the community.

For more information about the project please visit www.theheartlandsproject.co.uk.