Thursday, 28 February 2013

Irreverent localism presentation from 2011

I just found this, but in 2011 I was asked to sum up the new focus on localism in a quick, slightly amusing presentation.

I suggested it focuses on balancing the potentially opposing forces of:
  1. collaborative local action
  2. protest voices
but also that we have a lot more tools now to change the debate, stop the strongest voices in the planning process. I also suggested we don't currently have a vehicle for doing this. Since 2011 arguably the picture has polarised even more with HS2, Section 106 changes and hospital closures.

(back in 2011 there was just a picture of a big horse..)





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