AWAITING UPDATE

UPDATE 

Sue Casemore, Jeanne Hinton, Zandra Lacey and Louise Baxter (Community Development Worker for Mutley Greenbank Trust) met at the Fortescue on Wednesday, 24 January. for a conversation about Planet Mutley.    Recent meetings set up have been cancelled for lack of attendance, but the four of us are now proposing the following:

 ¨    That we begin to plan an event to take place in Moor View Park on August Bank Holiday Monday, 27 August.  We need to start planning soon.  We will begin to ask musicians if they are willing to play for us.  It is possible that we can get Watershed, Mad Dog McCrea and The Old Signs, all of whom have expressed an interest already.    Louise will try to get MGT’s Families Worker, Anne Brindley, on board and has some good contacts from Open Doors’ last Family Fun Day who might help with activities for children.

 ¨    We discussed the possibility of staging a larger annual event for Mutley beginning next year.  This will be more like a carnival, with street events (street performance, markets etc.) during the week preceding the fun day in the park.  We would like to be able to have a carnival procession travelling northbound along the length of Mutley Plain, around the Hyde Park roundabout  and down the other side of the Plain southbound, turning off by the Fortescue and terminating in Moor View Park.  This will be a huge project and will require a lot of planning.  We discussed asking councillors from Drake and Compton wards (probably Karen and David) to get involved and to help with things like road closure for the carnival procession.  We also need to recruit more community members with the enthusiasm needed to get this off the ground.

¨    That we continue to look for ways to take forward the regeneration of Moor View Gardens.   Some members of Planet Mutley are active in the plans to set up a Mutley Meeting Place (a community meeting place for Mutley).  As progress is made here it may be possible to include the regeneration of Moor View Gardens as part of a larger plan for Mutley.    MGT is supporting work on the park as part of their Open Spaces initiatives.

 ¨    That we have a display publicising the activities of Planet Mutley at the next public meeting to do with the Mutley Meeting Place.   We need to draw in new members to enable Planet Mutley to continue to be effective in the community.  Community groups in Mutley are needed more, not less, as the Meeting Place initiative gathers momentum.

Another meeting for Planet Mutley has been set for Wednesday 7 March at 7.30pm at The Lodge at the back of Mutley Baptist Church.   PLEASE COME !

Jeanne Hinton,  CHAIR