the work we’ve done: 4 – creating great community and visitor spaces

We have bike routes; but we knew we could improve them, sign them better, get more people out of cars and into the fresh air.

So we did.

Our job was to develop orientation signage to access the coast.

That’s trickier than it might seem, as signage can be seen as ugly or out of place by local communities, or get damamged, or moved.

But we tried our hardest to ensure all communication routes stayed open and healthy, and developed some great signage that did what we all wanted it to do, and managed to do it despite covid.

Technically this was to benefit visitors, but really it’s to benefit everyone.

So we set out to improve footpaths, particularly links to bus stops as well as signage to the South West Coast Path.

– installed community signage at Pendeen, Levant Road and Botallack
– developed footpath aspirational plans and improvement works
– developed the Xplor Tin Coast Walking App, with walking routes and countryside code, marine code and Visitor Charter messaging
– installed electric car charging points
– established Security Patrols for fly camping and wild camping, using Visitor Charter and our new campsite flyer to give positive visitor messaging
– developed Bus Livetimetable Boards in St Just and Pendeen
– installed free wifi hotspots
– created Visitor Information Hubs and Visitor Information Points (VIPs)
– launched the Tin Coast Website
– co-designed the Tin Coast Visitor Charter
– developed the innovative social prescribing cultural walks for health – which owing to Covid we changed into wellbeing *culture in a box* gifts