Having encouraged you to engage with the Plymouth Railway Station Redevelopment Masterplan Planning Consultation (edition #76 of this e-bulletin), Food Plymouth CIC director Ian Smith filed a submission in the CIC’s name from an overall Sustainable Food City perspective. In addition to supporting the redevelopment’s enhancements to the station and its surroundings as a key gateway into Plymouth, the submission included appeals around: Strengthening Plymouth’s food and drink links with the Tamar Valley via the branch line to Gunnislake; improving the presence of local sustainable food and drink in the station’s revised retail offering; retaining and enhancing the GWR staff’s Workplace Wellbeing Growing Project; keeping and / or replacing fruit trees growing near the station; planting fruit bushes and fruit trees rather than ornamentals wherever practicable throughout the development; improving Plymouth’s urban tree cover; creating more wildflower areas to benefit pollinating insects; and introducing urban beekeeping. Ian also offered Food Plymouth CIC’s services as an advisor-partner in the redevelopment. If you would like to know more and / or support the advisor-partner offer please contact Ian via ianmsmith1.5@gmail.com .
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