Request: What issue would you like to hold a public discussion about?
From:
Derek Parkinson
Date:
Apr 29 10:45 UTC
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Hi Anthony,
This is a bit general I'm afraid. I'd like to see something on how B&H
residents could become more involved in the big planning decisions for the
city. We get council stuff through the letterbox asking what we feel about
someone down the road building an extension etc. But what efforts are made
to involve residents in the big developments that radically change the city?
We read about new 'visions' etc for B&H, but whose vision is it?
Cheers,
Derek
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Anthony Zacharzewski <<email obscured>>
wrote:
> I'm doing some work with an organisation called the Democratic
> Society, which exists to support participation and democracy. We have
> been given a little funding by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and are
> going to use some of this money to stage a public discussion event in
> Brighton and Hove in late spring/early summer.
>
> I'd be really interested to hear from people on this list what sorts
> of issues they would like to see discussed at such a meeting, and what
> sort of format would appeal: a staged debate, a single speaker
> followed by discussion, or something entirely different.
>
> There are only a couple of rules. The Society is non-partisan so we
> can't stage debates or events that obviously promote a particular
> political party. If we had Caroline Lucas, for instance, we'd need to
> have balancing speakers. Second, we don't have an enormous amount of
> funding and we'd like to use it wisely so there's enough for more
> events later in the year.
>
> Feel free to drop me a line off-list if you don't want to clutter up
> the discussions here. You can check out the Democratic Society on our
> website (http://www.demsoc.org).
>
> Thanks
>
> Anthony
> Anthony Zacharzewski
>
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