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Destination Plymouth The whole story of the Millbay Residency and the UNESCO Cities of Literature writing commission celebrating Plymouth’s climate action is now available. The interview on YouTube explores how a place-making story, 'Millbay and Mill Bay' evolved from The Millbay Writer's Residency in Plymouth, Devon UK.  More background to the creation of the narrative is here on the magazine blog, Travel Writers Online. Simply clock on the Millbay & Mill Bay wave icons to read more below 

SuDS, Stonehouse and Plymouth Stonehouse was a separate place, a neighbour to Plymouth, until the towns were merged in 1914. Since the turn of the millennium, former Ministry of Defence property in Stonehouse has passed into local city council and then private hands for regeneration of the dockside area, including our area of study, known as Millbay. The first notable leisure and housing project was to convert the Royal William Victualling Yard. Our mission is to find walking routes into and around this emerging tourist area as it changes use to leisure and becomes part of the experience economy. As the writing and photography took shape under the title of The Millbay Residency, a marshland regeneration scheme funded by the European Union's Interreg initiative also reached completion on Bath Street, Plymouth. The local government and the urban regeneration scheme gave this old urban marshland a new French-styled place-brand with the name Millbay Boulevard. How is that connecting wi...

West Hoe Road This week we completed more fieldwork on the Millbay Residency down on the quays in Plymouth. It was an opportunity to try the new single document format for Dialogue Journaling in Google Docs and Google Drive for the first time. Some inspiring imagery from Mark and the chance to map out more of the route with Clarisse took us to the eastern-most edge of our territory so far. It was the fork where West Hoe Road becomes Redford Road, and Mayflower College stands in the upturned letter Y where the Great Western Road begins its journey south. Cawfee near the Octagon But back to the beginning of the day, for a moment. The team arrived early on Tuesday 25th April, so we had to find a plateau to sit, write and plan. Cawfee at 104 Union St, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 3HL was open, and only a short step from the Octagon and the entrance to the EU-funded flood defence system called Millbay Boulevard. The marshlands of Bath Street were regenerated just below the surface here and new ...