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Consultation
Masterplan consultation
A wide range of individuals and organisations were asked to help produce the masterplan, with the aim of building a broad based, effective partnership that could help turn the vision into reality.
As a first step, the project team carried out a series of face to face and telephone interviews with interested parties, including local community groups, officers and elected members from Southwark Council, retail, residents and business representatives, and developers.
Events including an action-planning day at the Salmon youth centre and a community workshop at the Salvation Army were well attended, following publicity in the local press as well as leaflet and poster campaigns. A project office was set up on Spa Road to provide a focal point for community interest, with local people encouraged to drop in and learn more about the project.
Work to involve stakeholders also featured a roving exhibition, leaflets distributed to residents with pre-paid reply slips, and door-to-door interviews with council tenants to gauge their views on housing plans.
Local people have played a key role in shaping the overall direction and aims of the regeneration. Today, residents, community groups, retailers, business organisations and others can still have a say in how individual sites are developed, not just through the planning process but also as part of more tailored consultation work. In this way they are continuing to influence the developments that matter to them, as and when they happen.
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