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Tom Spencer, the director of the arts organisation Terrestrial , said Weston was full of creative people, but for many years they had nowhere to gather.

Terrestrial has made clever use of the high street shop, which has been renamed Weston Artspace. An old store room has been turned into a photography studio; the first floor flat is a messy area for artists; the top floor is for people to think and write.

Downstairs, the main shop area hosts everything from talks by pensioners producing short films to dance workshops for people with addiction issues and spy adventures for children. The opening of the shop was another important step for what had been a disparate group of local artists. Terrestrial has the building for a year, but hopes the people of Weston will continue to run it after that.

This gift boutique on Central Parade in Walthamstow, London, once sold soap. Now it offers gifts inspired by African and black British culture, made by a collective of 15 black British designers. Co-founders Chanelle Joseph and Dorcas Magbadelo had been looking for a home for their products — everything from jewellery to leather bags and baby clothes — but had been priced out of the market. Then they found Meanwhile Space. Unsurprisingly, their unique offerings have been embraced by shoppers in the local community.

Life and style. London is full of unused spaces that could be used for temporary housing, workspaces, parks, community gardens and retail, otherwise known as meanwhile uses, but are not. Leaving sites empty is costly, and in a city where land is at a premium, meanwhile use can improve the development process and offer affordable space for the next generation of entrepreneurs, artists and activists to emerge and experiment.

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