Jane Wills
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447323037
- eISBN:
- 9781447323051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447323037.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Picking up the themes raised by the previous two chapters, this chapter focuses on the creation of neighbourhood forums as a product of the Localist Act (2011). New rights to neighbourhood planning ...
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Picking up the themes raised by the previous two chapters, this chapter focuses on the creation of neighbourhood forums as a product of the Localist Act (2011). New rights to neighbourhood planning have led to the creation of these new forums in urban areas where parishes had long been abolished. The chapter looks at the development of neighbourhood planning in Exeter St James (Devon), Holbeck (Leeds, Yorkshire) and Highgate (London). It outlines the community-led work that has been done by these forums, and the challenges faced where the community has limited capacity to act independently (in this case in Holbeck in Leeds). The research again highlights the importance of shifting the power relations between the council and the local community.Less
Picking up the themes raised by the previous two chapters, this chapter focuses on the creation of neighbourhood forums as a product of the Localist Act (2011). New rights to neighbourhood planning have led to the creation of these new forums in urban areas where parishes had long been abolished. The chapter looks at the development of neighbourhood planning in Exeter St James (Devon), Holbeck (Leeds, Yorkshire) and Highgate (London). It outlines the community-led work that has been done by these forums, and the challenges faced where the community has limited capacity to act independently (in this case in Holbeck in Leeds). The research again highlights the importance of shifting the power relations between the council and the local community.
Jane Wills
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447323037
- eISBN:
- 9781447323051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447323037.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter concludes the book. It highlights the fact that the four different research projects – Poplar’s Neighbourhood Community Budget, Lambeth’s local government, neighbourhood planning and ...
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This chapter concludes the book. It highlights the fact that the four different research projects – Poplar’s Neighbourhood Community Budget, Lambeth’s local government, neighbourhood planning and community organising in east London – all exposed the importance of citizens having the institutional infrastructure required to engage in localist statecraft. In each case, people needed an independent neighbourhood forum in order to represent their own diversity, identify a shared agenda, negotiate with state-funded organisations and organise activity to promote their work. The chapter looks at the development of Queen’s Park Community Council in West London as an example of the potential of this kind of organisation to shape local politics. The chapter ends by highlighted the unexpected – and counter-cultural – emergence of parish-scale civic organisation as being critical to good government in twenty-first century England.Less
This chapter concludes the book. It highlights the fact that the four different research projects – Poplar’s Neighbourhood Community Budget, Lambeth’s local government, neighbourhood planning and community organising in east London – all exposed the importance of citizens having the institutional infrastructure required to engage in localist statecraft. In each case, people needed an independent neighbourhood forum in order to represent their own diversity, identify a shared agenda, negotiate with state-funded organisations and organise activity to promote their work. The chapter looks at the development of Queen’s Park Community Council in West London as an example of the potential of this kind of organisation to shape local politics. The chapter ends by highlighted the unexpected – and counter-cultural – emergence of parish-scale civic organisation as being critical to good government in twenty-first century England.
