Primary school children in Larkhall have been putting their thinking caps on to ponder what homes and neighbourhood life might look like 200 years from now.
Children from Hareleeshill Primary were asked to imagine a community in the year 2222 and draw their vision of a house in the future as part of a community legacy project with Living by Robertson, to mark the beginning of the housebuilder’s new neighbourhood of 128 homes at Seven Hills.
And the primary two and three pupils came up with some innovative ideas - slides for stairs, kitchens with sweetie conveyor belts and self-cleaning bedrooms - for a series of specially-designed posters, which have since been sealed in a time capsule to be opened in two centuries.
The completed artwork has been collated together to create a vision of a ‘Neighbourhood Community in 2222’ that will be displayed on 6ft high boards around the Seven Hills construction site at Borland Avenue which the children will pass as they walk to school.
As well as the colourful pictures, the time capsule will also contain information about Larkhall to help its finders understand what the community was like in 2022.
School pupil Michael said: “In the future my house in Larkhall will have a games room on the first floor with a bunch of games and a gaming chair, we will have living room in the kitchen, and we will have flying cars.”
Margaret Davidson, marketing and sales director at Living by Robertson, said: “At Living we are not only building homes, but also new communities across Scotland. It has been a real joy to work with the young people from Hareleeshill Primary School to find out their vision for future generations in Larkhall.”
Kate Fisher, head teacher at Hareleeshill Primary, added: “At Hareleeshill Primary we focus on supporting our pupils to become responsible citizens and effective contributors to society and the Living by Robertson Building Communities project gave all of us an opportunity to talk about the importance of community in Larkhall now and what they could help create in the future.”
As part of Living by Robertson’s Building Communities project, the housebuilder has donated £1000 to Hareleeshill Primary School funds to be spent on a project that will benefit the school community.
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