The Milton Screamers
Artist Nicola Atkinson www.nadfly.com has been working with Love Milton and locla people to deliver a series of screen printing and sewing workshops. These workshops had the aim of teaching skills that could be used to transform and re-imagine old fabrics and textiles. Nicola produced a set of illustrations inspired by people and places in [...]
Love Milton has been busy
You wouldn’t know it from the fact that this blog has been inactive but Love Milton has been very busy over the past year. So the is about to be a flurry of posts that bring everyone bang up to date. Love Milton now has over 230 members and runs a whole host of workshops, [...]
Exhibition Venue
Love Milton are currently developing a small exhibition pavilion that will be used to exhibit the project and the work of the group. The pavilion will be made from reclaimed timber palettes and local people will have an opportunity to take part in building and decorating it. We will be formalising a day for the [...]
Fundraising and Landhold Agreement
Love Milton now has written confirmation from Glasgow City Council that a land hold agreement has been placed on the site in favour of our project. This means the site cannot be marketed or sold to any other group or individual for the next 12months. Having exclusive rights to develop proposals for this site means [...]
Planning Permission Submitted
The Love Milton group submitted an application for planning permission to Glasgow City Council at the end of July and are currently waiting to discover whether this has been approved. The final scheme proposed a series of three interconnected buildings that provide a variety of different community resources. The buildings sit within a landscaped public [...]
Design Work
Over the last month we have been working really hard with the steering group and the congregation to develop the design proposal for the new building. The project combines a series of landscaped public spaces with a community building that has a variety of functions. At present the new building will have a cafe, a [...]
Visit To Castlemilk Stables
Over the last month we have been identifying local people who wish to form the Love Milton steering group. It has been really heartening to see local people with many different interests coming forward and coming together to get behind and take ownership of the project. With the steering group formed and now meeting regularly [...]
Visit to Bankfoot
Myself and several members of the congregation from Colston Milton Parish Church recently went on a trip to see a new church and community centre in the village of Bankfoot in Perthshire. This visit was extremely useful for us to examine how different community and church groups are able to operate within a single building. [...]
Presentation at the Manse
Monday 12th January 2009 This evening offered an opportunity to present the consultation work done thus far and present initial ideas and thinking regarding the design of the building. Having consulted with the wider community about how the building could provide for them I felt we had reached a stage where members of Colston Milton [...]
