The South West Sustainability Checklist
The Sustainability Checklist helps achieve best practice in built environment sustainable development in the South West. This is what it says about community involvement in development:
"Well-designed developments see community interaction as a high priority in the master planning stages. Creating social spaces and recreational facilities, such as swimming pools and cafes, breaks down barriers so that people to come together and form communities. Having a respect and pride for ones living or working space improves the desire to look after it, which is where sustainable behaviour begins.
But community respect for a development also comes from being involved in decision making, which is why the local people should be involved in every stage of the creation of a development. Developers and local planning authorities will benefit greatly in involving the community who can help them understand the needs, wants and constraints of the work. A development that pleases most will prevent objections arising in the future."
Came too late for Seaton didn't it?
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 10:13 pm
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Case in point MSC Napoli anag. Oil Pan. Where do the people go when the beaches are covered in oil. Signs up don't swim, Oil splattered up and down seaton Esplanade. We've got of lightly apparently if you believe the pundits, this is not my observation hundreds of sea birds affected untold damage to the marine environment. A new sports centre, swimming pool and community centre would do nothing to detract from this catastrophe but it would at least give people somewhere to go to take their minds of what they can see and give them some healthy exercise.
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