Photo Credit © Lynda Marshall - Mural on storage container
The interior of Space@MiltonCreek is now complete. There is just the hard landscaping and the disabled access ramps to be completed before the building can be made available for hire by voluntary and community groups as well as private and public sector organisations.
Since the start of the new year the Friend of Milton Creek have been making great progress completing the interior of Space. There are just a few odd jobs left inside like hanging the cupboard doors and fitting the kitchen units. Then all attention will be paid to completing the hard landscaping and building the disabled access ramps
The Friends of Milton Creek are very pleased with the progress being made to complete Space @MiltonCreek. The interior is well on he way to being completed but further fundraising is required in order to complete all the exterior work.
The Friends of Milton Creek are very excited to announce the arrival of Space @MiltonCreek. There is still a lot to be done to complete the project, plus an estimated £30,000 needs to be raised pay for all the work required to comply with current building regulations.
Great news, the Milton Creek Country Park Trust has received permission to build a new community hub which they are calling “Space in the Park”. When completed this will provide a 16ft x 40ft warm dry space where they can hold meetings, run workshops and classes etc. Open the post to see the plans of the new building.
ROOM was on loan but has now been acquired by the MCCP Trust. It is being replaced by the much larger and more useful Space@MiltonCreek. It has now been moved to the new work compound and repurposed as the volunteers mess room.
Thanks to a donation from a local building firm the Trust has been able to purchase 10 new fruit trees for the community orchard. These are traditional Kentish varieties of fruit trees grow by Brogdale.
As part of this project the existing trees, as well as all the new trees, will be getting substantial wire cages which will provide much better protection from the thriving rabbit population, marauding dogs and mowing machines.
Martin Brockman has created a group of green oak benches to mark the industrial past of Milton Creek and the wildlife of the tidal lands found on the Saxon Shore Path . Carved onto curved oak beams are oyster catchers, egrets, seagrass and local flora alongside the Thames barges and industrial cranes linked to past industry.
Every year we try to add a new piece of artwork to the Park. Yesterday (6th March) the Friends and the Kris Staples the park ranger toured the Park with Martin Brockman from Outdoor Studios looking at possible locations and designs for this years installation.