A national charity has launched a manifesto calling on future governments to prioritise improvements to the public realm and enable local communities to play an active part in planning such improvements.
Civic Voice
has as its aims making places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive and promoting civic pride. Its manifesto, Localism for Real, was launched this week at a Parliamentary meeting.
Southgate District Civic Trust, who are affiliated to Civic Voice and contributed to its drafting, were disappointed that Enfield Southgate David Burrowes was unable to attend because of other commitments, but took an earlier opportunity to present him with a summary of the manifesto.
Another recently issued Civic Trust publication, Collaborative Planning for All, has been produced as part of a campaign to to bring collaborative planning processes into mainstream planning so that through shared working from an early stage, communities can help shape and support, growth and development fit for their community.
In the runup to the General Election Civic Voice will be calling on all parties to adopt the principles set out in Collaborative Planning for All. The charity wants to see a new approach in which local authorities are required to demonstrate that local planning decisions can be made only after it has been demonstrated that there has been active participation in the process by members of the local community.
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