A Gathering of interest from the ground up........

Community Participation

Information and Consultation

“The Council recognises that people in communities have a right to a view on the planning and development of

the areas in which they live and it is Council policy to facilitate people in examining that view. It is Council policy to build on the spirit of partnership so as to ensure real social development.”

Extract from DLRCoCo Development Plan 2004-2010 Section 8

The greatest power of ‘Public Space’ could be said to be in its expression of the communal, which, in an ideal world, would be generated by the needs of the community it reflects and which it ultimately serves.

Why now?

• There has existed within the body of the development plan for DLRCoCo the possibility for community based groups to engage with this framework and put forward proposals for re-generation in their areas. But the conscious focus to pull together these collective desires slipped from the agenda due to the galloping pace of the tiger. Now is the time, now that we have time, time to think, plan, get together to sift out this common ground.