Positive Living in the 21st Century
You can’t solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.”
– Albert Einstein.
What is PL:21?
PL:21 is a Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that brings residents together to help make a more sustainable place to live and work.
By getting involved and seeking to adopt more sustainable lifestyles, we can discover new ways of thinking, working, producing and sharing together at a local level; getting more out of our community, as well as helping contribute at a global level.
PL:21 is made up of local residents from a variety of backgrounds and with a wide range of interests and skills. If you have an idea to help make the area more environmentally friendly or to encourage sustainable behaviour please get involved and we’ll try to help you make it happen.
Ivybridge Street Design Strategy
PL:21 Transition Town Initiative commissioned Sustrans to engage with local people in Ivybridge, and use the outputs to develop a street design strategy for the town.
Ivybridge Rail Users’ Group
The Ivybridge Rail Users’ Group (IRUG) is a local advocacy organisation dedicated to representing rail users in the town of Ivybridge, Devon.
It collaborates with train operators and other stakeholders to improve rail services, facilities, and connectivity for the community.
Themes and Campaigns
Environment
We working with a number of environmental groups in the area.
Active Travel
Working with Sustrans and the town council, we are trying to make walking and cycling easier.
PL:21 is a collective of interested people, volunteering our time for things we are passionate about.
We all bring different skills and interests to the mix, and the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts: however, we need all the parts we can get.
Currently we have several workgroups, open to all. If you’d like to get involved in any campaign, get in touch with us via the Contact page
Energy
The Ivybridge area has its very own community energy society.
Cycling
Ivybridge has a growing network of cycle routes.
Food
Buy and sell locally made food and produce.
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We need to create connected spaces across our landscape – in our towns and cities, on farmland, and in natural places – to give wildlife a chance to recover and adapt to pressures like climate change.
The Wildlife Trusts
Join us and Make a Pledge for Nature
Please join us and make a Pledge for Nature, and be part of a growing movement in the UK, to save our threatened wildlife, bees, insects and plants.
Latest News
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Funding Secured!
Working closely with Ivybridge Rail User Group, our local councillors, and our MP we have secured the £20K of funding needed to pay Network Rail to…
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Ivybridge is planning a sustainable travel future
Since Ivybridge Street Design Strategy was published in June 2021, PL:21 has been working closely with South Hams District Council, Ivybridge Town Council and…
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Ivybridge Train Station is too short
“Our train station is too short,” commented our chair, John Pope. Local MP, Rebecca Smith had written to train operator CrossCountry Trains to ask them…
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