Urban Green Shoots Breaks Ground at Final site of the Project

Urban Green Shoots has demonstrated how quickly Cornwall Council, in partnership with Cormac have responded to a funding opportunity to make widespread and long-lasting improvements for nature and people across across its environment estate. Since being awarded funding in late 2023, the project has implemented whole site schemes at 10 public open spaces and supported rewilding on urban verges across Camborne, Redruth and Liskeard.

Last week (20th Jan 2025) work commenced on the final site, at Barrowfields, Newquay, with the project completion date of March 2025 now firmly in sight.

The Barrowfields scheme responds to the significance of the location as a site of scheduled prehistoric funerary monuments dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, known as bowl barrows. These features, which are a series of earth mounds are untouched by the planting and access improvements that will be delivered by Urban Green Shoots, and the project is also funding a new information board to help raise awareness about these ancient features that line the Newquay clifftops.

The enhancements will improve access to and biodiversity/shelter at the viewpoint over Tolcarne beach, through improvements to the path and steps alongside a nature-rich Cornish hedge and wildflower meadow patches as well as installing lengths of colourful and scented plant beds along the walkway leading out to Bolowthas Corner.

The scheme is expected to complete site works by the end of February 2025.