Hilbre Island walking tour includes a guided tour of the grade two listed buildings currently being converted by the Hilbre Community Land Trust and British Art & Design Association into artist studios and a research Centre for Arts, Science and Sustainability.
A walk across West Kirby beach to Hilbre island, and a tour of the seven semi-derelict grade two listed buildings that form the Hilbre Community Land Trust. The tour includes a talk on the British Art & Design Associations project to create a Centre for Arts, Science and Sustainability.
The creation of the new Centre provides a long-term sustainable use for the empty listed buildings and creates a facility that will foster collaboration between creative and environmental science disciplines. Hilbre has no mains infrastructure and this project will become an exemplar for off-grid sustainable energy/waste/water systems.
The walk will start and end at West Kirby Marine Lake car park.