Cornish stone hedgers on site

Cornish stone hedges are being built as a boundary to the site and will be a backdrop to the Diaspora Gardens.

David's Diaspora Blog

You can now get a real insight in to the ideas behind David Mackie's art work that will feature in the Diaspora Gardens. David worked with schools and community groups to develop the patterns that represent Cornwall's Diaspora. The Diaspora Gardens at Heartlands will include 5 gardens of North America, South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand each the size of half a football pitch. The planting represents the areas of the world that the Cornish emigrated, and took their mining engineering skills with them to leave the Cornish Mining legacy all over the world.

David's artwork consists of imagery inspired by the countries the Cornish travelled to, these images will be cast in bronze a mix of tin and copper, and attached to granite boulders in the Diaspora gardens. Some examples of the imagery can be seen below. Take a look at David's blog which gives a real insight in how the project start and was inspired by people in the community. http://www.seamsandveins.tumblr.com/

Things are really starting to come on.......

The park, playground and events space can now start to be seen above, with the whole area levelled ready for landscaping. The new road, shown above, which will skirt round the northern boundary of Heartlands is also progressing quickly with a finish date of this summer. There have also been big changes to the Carpenters Shed which will be home to the restaurant, cafe and bar. Above shows the interior of the restaurant which has been panelled and below is the outside of the building which is currently undergoing structural and roofing work.

Work on the first floor apartments has started with the block work walls currently being put in to place.