FOLLOWING the submission of more than 90 diaries from people who live and work in the Tamar Valley last June, a film has been produced and is now available to view online.

'Diarykeepers' is a project about celebrating the present, marking the past and looking forward to how people want the valley to be in the coming years and the part everyone plays in shaping its future.

This moving film documents the process of making this innovative piece of community engagement, and captures the daily life, thoughts and aspirations of valley residents, aged four to 80.

It also shows how this compares and contrasts with valley life 100 years ago, thanks to extracts from the diary of Joseph Snell, a market gardener who lived in St Dominick at that time.

The next stage of this project will be to invite residents to articulate their vision for the Tamar Valley through a series of workshops.

It is hoped to produce pictorial representations of a future landscape that, if realised, would be resilient to climate change, peak oil and globalisation. These visions would form part of the new AONB management plan and inform decisions made by planners and land managers.

The Diarykeepers film is available to view http://www.tamarvalley.org.uk/projects/cordiale">www.tamarvalley.org.uk/projects/cordiale. It has been produced by the AONB's 'Cordiale' project which is working with teams from other protected landscapes in south west England and north west France to find ways to adapt in the face of future challenges.

Cordiale aims to build deeper understanding of the distinctive character of landscapes in the cross-border region and to support integrated decision-making.