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Community
engagement
Creating and managing places that can
be used and enjoyed by people who live
nearby helps to ensure that places are
sustainable.
Involving local people in
development decisions helps to ensure
that the eventual designs are...
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Community
engagement
Creating and managing places that can
be used and enjoyed by people who live
nearby helps to ensure that places are
sustainable.
Involving local people in
development decisions helps to ensure
that the eventual designs are appropriate,
enjoyable, well used, and cared for by the
community.
It is vital to involve local communities in
the earliest planning stage of regenerating,
developing or constructing public open
space.
Community engagement is now
an important part of many funding
applications.
However, engaging people
in a project should be more than a ‘tick
box’ activity to satisfy potential funders.
Successful community engagement is
about developing productive relationships.
Not only relationships between practitioners
and local people, but between different
community groups as well, that will
continue beyond the life of the project.
For managers and staff, community
consultation opens the door to people who
have personal experience of the difficultie
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