St Leonards Coastal Space
[ Community Planning Projects ]St Leonards Community Planning Weekend Report Back
Thursday 9 February 2012
The Magnet, St Leonards-on-Sea
The local community was invited to attend the St Leonards Coastal Space Community Planning Weekend to participate in creating a new Vision for the future of the area. The aim of the event was to bring together everyone with an interest in St Leonards to produce a practical Vision for its future.
At the Community Planning Weekend people had the opportunity to take part in workshops and hands-on planning groups to discuss key issues such as getting about, crime and safety, culture and heritage and the local economy. This event was an opportunity to share local knowledge and ideas and contribute to the emerging Vision for the site. People were welcome to pop in for a short while, a few hours or stay for the entire time. Team members were on hand to explain what’s happening.
Following the Community Planning Weekend the community planning team analysed and summarised the outcomes and developed an illustrated Vision for the site. This was reported back to the community at 7pm on Thursday 9 February at the Magnet, 1 Christ Church Courtyard, London Road, St Leonards-on-Sea.
To view the Report Back Newsletter, please click on the PDF on the right-hand side.
Background
Over the past year Local Space has been in discussions with Hastings Borough Council to lead a major new initiative within Central St Leonards. This will involve improving the property conditions within the area as well as working closely with the local community to instigate far wider change. To launch this new approach John Thompson & Partners on behalf of Gensing and Central St Leonards Community Forum and Local Space will be running a Community Planning Weekend on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st January 2012. Over the two days local residents, partner agencies, schools and the business community will all be invited to take part in a series of lively discussions and hands-on workshops to both celebrate what is great about the area and create solutions to its problems.
Contact
For further information, please contact Ieva Ansaberga at ia@jtp.co.uk or
+44 (0)20 7017 1780.
