St Ives Community Land Trust project.
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00:00So you join me today on this beautiful sunny morning here in St Ives in Cornwall, as you
00:12can see an absolutely incredible location. We're about to start work on installing a
00:17ground source heat pump system into a Georgian building with some incredibly tight one-way
00:22roads and in a very much a built-up area. We've managed to track a drill rig from the
00:27front of the building roadside through the property into the rear of the building to
00:32allow us to drill five boreholes each at 100 metres in depth using a small, furnished built
00:38drill rig. Hello, I'm Roger Wedlake from a drilling company called Aquasource down in
00:42Cornwall. We're breaking ground today for Kensa on a new contract in St Ives and we're
00:48drilling all our holes in the back garden basically. Some of the holes will have to
00:52be inclined because of the lack of space. This means as they go deeper they get further apart
00:57which gives us sufficient separation on the ground array. Hello, I'm Neil Mitchell, I'm
01:02part of Mitchell & Son, the building contractors. We're the principal contractor here in this
01:06six unit scheme right in the middle of St Ives, buzzing about the whole thing, can't
01:10wait to see it up and running and then finally completed and then turning this old building
01:14into six habitable spaces for local people. My name is Jill Block, I'm the project lead
01:20for a housing project in the middle of St Ives, creating affordable homes for local
01:25people. The project is being carried out by St Ives Community Land Trust, which is a community
01:30benefit society, not for profit, and it's owned by its members who are within the parish
01:35of St Ives. We've raised the funds to buy this historically important Georgian building.
01:41It's so important to the local community, they got together to raise the funds to purchase
01:45the building and then raise the funds for the capital expenditure to renovate the building,
01:50which is where we're at now. The idea to make it as future-proof as possible for our
01:55tenants came about from the discussions we'd had with the local community over a couple
01:59of years prior to starting the project, from around 2018, on the basis that we wanted to
02:04make it as warm as possible, as cheap as possible to stay in, the rental's going to be affordable,
02:09we're aiming for social housing rents, which, fingers crossed, we might maintain, and we'll
02:14be ready for business by the autumn. Yeah, it's brilliant to see these projects underway
02:18as the town council, we're really pleased to see the support that we're putting into
02:23these projects coming to some fruition.