June 29, 2005
Project group
The local people involved in the project are Millennium Trustees and other volunteers. These include - Trustees John Bettridge, Jo Bewley and Liam Godfrey; volunteers Ian Hodson, Richard Parkin, Steve White, Jenny Harris, Sean Jones and Martin Dudley, and Andrew Dunn on behalf of the Parish Council.
Some members of this group regularly meet City of York Council as well as David Livesley the Ward Councillor.
Support for the project has also come from:
Bishopthorpe Parish Council
Tim Bruce
Lisa Thornton
Malcom Bricklebank
Julie Woolgar
Simon Riley
Paul and Lesley Davey
Margaret Williams
V Florey
Vicky Oates
Pat Semple
Christine Smythe
Mark Griffin
Jane Thomas
Chris Hayes
Heather Martin
David & Margaret Wright
John Dutton
Mr and Mrs Beadle
Trevor & Joan Bousfield
Bob Hirst
Carol Dudley
J Baldwin
M Dawson
B P Forrester
P Doherty
C Reilly-Smythe
Robert Sorby
Barbara and Keith Duggan
A and T Fisher
Stephen Bale
Ingrid Bale
J Parkin
Catherine Samworth
S and A Tredgold
K Radley
E and R Simpson
R and DB Johnson
Lyn Bradshaw
Joan Wreggit
Diane Curran
Lorna Morrison
Bill Martin
M N McCulloch
P J O'Malley
J Davies
J R Burr
J Langthorpe
T and W Evans
N and P Lumley
G Aldus
T and J Andrew
Anna Vinnuesa
The Panellists who reviewed the design competition entries were:
Sir Donald Barron (Chair)
Richard Parkin (Adviser)
Jo Bewley (Co-ordinator)
June Whittaker
Jane Cross
Ben Wallace
Fred Weatherley
Louise Bishop
Kate Hardy
If you want to add your name in support of the Bishopthorpe@Crossroads scheme, send us an email.
Volunteers
If you would like to help with the scheme, any offers of help are welcome. Any one with spare time, and an interest - for a start - should get in touch with the project. Just send us an email.
Posted by martin at 1:12 PM | Comments (0)
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.
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