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September 25, 2004
Participation
One of the key things about the Crossroads project is that it inevitably concerns everyone in the area (because we all live here). It also involves all those who want to have a say - which is never everyone. How many get involved is always going to be a key indicator, especially for our elected representatives, and those whose direct interests are chellenged by the desire to make improvements to our own locality.
Increasingly people want to have 'choice' (or we can choose to have choices), rather than having things done for us by those who know best. There are even words to describe the concept of people having direct influence over publicly funded programmes such a 'localism'.
So it was interesting to think about how we are trying to work in partnership with local people, council officials and private landowners to create a a new look village centre. A recent entry in a web log kept up by a friend of mine reminded me about this, and its worth checking out here to see a further discussion and reality check on this topic.
Posted by martin at September 25, 2004 3:02 PM
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