Pillaton Church Tractor-House - 18th April 2015

Dear friends,

This is a begging letter for support to build a new stone and slate tractor-house at the north of the new churchyard behind the replanted Millennium yews. At long last I have three planning permissions for it: one from the Diocese by Faculty, one from the English Heritage and one from Cornwall Council. We are building it at the end of May

It will be breeze-block built, stone faced at the front facing the churchyard and rendered the other three walls.The doors will be as good as we can manage - if someone donated oak, that would be wonderful.

The stone facing will have deep holes to allow the tits and sparrows to nest, bat boxes will be incorporated in the building of the structure; bird boxes under the eaves will be made of wooden organ pipes from the old organ (a block of horizontal single homes); the back will be given to ivy for the invertebrates.

I raised some money from a grant for the Living Churchyard project last year which is available to fund about half the labour bill and I am looking for help with the remainder and the building materials.

I am hoping that quite a lot of people will have just a few breeze-blocks laying about from past projects (I certainly have) and perhaps some spare slates and some timber for the roof; or you may know of some firm which has a community fund to support.

I attach below a list of the basic building materials needed.

Tony Rowe
350669

Building Material Requirement for Pillaton Church Tractor House:

• 15 bags cement - £5.50 per bag
• 210 blocks - about £1 each
• 3 ton sand - 3 x £40
• 3 metre square membrane
• 2 sq metre mesh
• 100 wall ties - £24