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A local freestyle artist is set to collaborate with schoolchildren to create a series of ceramic printed tiles that will feature on the façade of the new Limes housing development.
Glen Fox has been selected to work on the Andium development’s 'Percentage for Art' - a scheme in which developers allocate a percentage of the costs of any new building towards the provision of public art.
Planning approval for the Green Street development, which will comprise of 40 one-bedroom, 83 two-bedroom and seven three-bedroom units, was granted in May 2021.
As a result, the current buildings, which include the Limes, 13-28 Willow Court and the Willows Day Care Centre, will be demolished. Their replacement will be six floors’ at its highest point – one fewer than originally planned.
The new development will also include lower-ground-floor parking for 109 cars, five spaces outside, parking for six motorbikes, a 78-space bicycle store and further room for 72 bikes.
Another planning application has since been submitted, relating to proposals for the façade of the building.
They show plans for Glen to work with local schoolchildren on a series of designs as part of a competition. Some of the designs will then be featured on the brick façade of the building, as well as on some of the ‘key’ balconies.
The theme of the design will be inspired by “the rich site history, contextual clues in the surrounding area and the celebration of beauty in everyday life”.
If granted approval, it will be the next in a series of murals Glen has already created in the island, including in Dorset Street, Rouge Bouillon School and New Street.
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It also won't be the first time he has collaborated with schoolchildren - in 2019, he worked with Plat Douet School pupils as part of the Skipton School Mural project.
Then last year, he worked on the Skipton Forget Me Knots project, which saw thousands of children create paper flowers to explore their experiences of the pandemic.
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