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Sustainable Communities Event
Tuesday 25th March 2008, 8:30am - 1:00pm
Chatsworth Hotel, Worthing
Held at Chatsworth Hotel, Worthing and attended by 16 local authority staff and councillors, this event concluded the Learning Laboratories project for 2007/08, looking at lessons learnt and ways forward and how the Coastal West Sussex strip will continue to embed the capacity building programme for the future
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- Greater understanding of recent developments in Bognor, SEEDA’s priority around education led regeneration and an interesting debate around members and officers engagement.
- The debate by IdeA will help inform the future direction of the network and its priorities
- I wanted to get the message over that I believe, through direct experience, officers in the planning process are de-motivated by an excess of regulation, monitoring and target setting. The good ones get out into private practice as consultants.
- Many participants seemed to agree. I hope that those who can do something about this will take action; but I doubt anything will change.
- It is part of the councillors’ responsibility to become approachable to the public and help them understand their community and the events going on within it. This would give many local people a better understanding of how processes work within council and more interest in their community activity and I believe in turn this would create relationships between local people.
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