Community Action Plan
From:
Angela Piccini
Date:
May 13 23:19 UTC
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Hi Stephen
The time scale for developing the Community Action Plan with the Environmental
and Sustainability Unit from 2006-date means that the responses from this forum
will feed into the annual updates, rather than in the immanent launch of the
document.
There were three stages in the development of the Community Action Plan. In
2006, questionnaires and drop-off boxes were circulated throughout the East
and West Wards. After initial analysis, a Fun Day was organised at Wicklea
Youth and Community Centre in Summer 2006 to gather more community views. It
combined memory mapping, interviews and displays.
These activities formed the basis for an interim report, which was sent to key
City Council offices (about 120). An ‘executive summary’ was printed as a
leaflet and circulated to all Brislington postal addresses with information
about a second-stage involvement exercise, which took place in Spring 2007.
These focus group workshops saw 130 people involved in a prioritising exercise
that demonstrated that leisure, transportation and the environment were the top
three key issues for residents. The top ten specific issues were public
transport, perceived policing levels, transportation routes, parks, local
shopping and banking, sports facilities, dog fouling, recycling, youth groups
and the swimming pool.
The rich information produced out of these workshops was used to formulate the
actions in the draft action plan, which was used as the core document in an
involvement exercise with Council officers. That meeting, in January 2008, was
organised through a collaboration between the Environmental and Sustainability
Unit and Neighbourhood Partnerships and was facilitated by an independent
facilitator. Lorna Heaysman sent out invitations to a large number of officers.
This meeting aimed to identify longer term strategic plans within Council
offices that linked with issues and actions specific to Brislington. Those
attending were enthusiastic about this inclusive process and welcomed
Brislington’s involvement in developing such a plan.
Now that this e-forum is up-and-running, we have an effective mechanism for
inviting comment on the Action Plan to feed into its annual reviews. Ideally,
the forum will prompt people to get involved to form working groups to address
the actions in the plan and to develop their own actions through longer-term
planning.
Once I receive the outstanding information for the plan and additional logos,
I'll upload the pdf.
A A Piccini
Chair, BCP
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Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
School of Arts
University of Bristol
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