The council has been talking about Liveable Neighbourhoods since putting it in their winning manifesto in May 2019. Now it finally looks they they have launched the Phase 1 schemes consultations!
Well, it doesn’t look like the easiest way of ‘having your say’ but Bath & North East Somerset Council has launched the next stage of its Liveable Neighbourhoods project to help make communities healthier – and it’s all about being interactive.
The council says it’s committed to giving people a bigger say and putting them at the heart of decision-making, so is inviting residents, businesses and organisations to co-design the schemes and help improve their own environments to create healthier communities.
This is a bit like pinning the tail on the donkey but over the next three weeks, people can go onto a map-based page and pin their comments via www.bathnes.gov.uk/liveableneighbourhoods as well as taking part in a series of virtual and face-to-face events…..
Councillor Sarah Warren, deputy council leader and cabinet member for Climate and Sustainable Travel said: “We’ve had a fantastic response so far from communities who’ve…
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Is it possible to ‘over consult?’
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This covers so much of central Bath it is basically a re-run of the last Commonplace survey as far as the city is concerned. What are we going to learn from doing it again? People cannot react to actual LN proposals eg. Where the filters will go, as there aren’t any. This feels a lot like ‘can kicking’ to me.
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