Leading a team with colleagues from Cass Associates, we’ve recently completed two series of community workshops for Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales. The aim of the workshops was to feed community aspirations into their new statutory plan to guide development in the Borough for the next 15 years. This was a new venture for […]
Archive | January, 2008
Barcelona | selling urban regeneration
Community engagement is about a whole range of ways of communicating. On the one side, local communities are hugely diverse – in any one area affected by a development proposal or a new strategy, there will be people of all ages, ethnic groups, religions and levels of education. On the other hand, the objectives of […]
cutting down the paper overload
Well said, planning lawyer Stephen Ashworth! His call for the planning profession to cut down on paper overload in this week’s Planning magazine is a point well made. The argument that Stephen puts forward in his article is simple: Planning is overwhelmed by unnecessary information. Decisions are often delayed by the need to plough through […]