Meanwhile Use: Highlights
As the Meanwhile Use project is coming to an end, we're looking back at the highlights in this special summary video. We're so pleased this project has been able to help those creative people and businesses of Plymouth. Watch the video below to hear how the project has impacted the people of our city!
The Meanwhile Use project was initiated to support imaginative projects that occupy vacant spaces in the city centre. It allowed such project to have a home, rent free.
It provided an amazing opportunity for pop-up, experimentation and testing of ideas in a low risk way.
Studies and reports highlight a need to diversify the high street, moving away from a reliance on retail, in order to truly reinvent our town centres for a sustainable future. The high street has also been heavily impacted by the pandemic leading to an increase in vacant units and evidence that indicates consumer buying habits may be permanently changed.
In Plymouth there was and continues to be an opportunity, with the support of various funds and a committed partnership, to revive our city centre through the development of a meanwhile use programme to stimulate activity in the short-term leading to long-term change, and create a sustainable model of business start up and growth.
Read more about the project here, and see our favourite images below.
