Brislington Community Partnership
Before any changes can be made to our surroundings, they have to be planned. We've all experienced the results - large houses turned into flats (frequently without enough parking spaces for the residents), shops redeveloped into housing or offices or vice versa, parks and green spaces being taken over for building, even favourite trees being cut down - all decided by those mysterious beings called Planners.
The word sometimes conjures up images of bureaucrats in offices far removed from the places they affect, deciding how our communities should look and operate without any real knowledge of our local area. We often feel helpless, our objections overridden by 'the powers that be', and end up resenting those whose job should be to improve the quality of our communal lives.
But it doesn't have to be this way. There are things we can do, steps we can take, to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions noted. We can become involved in the planning process.
All it takes is a little time and effort - not much to ask to have a say in what happens to our own community and affects our lives so deeply!
Joules, Webmaster.
Planning - an Overview.
Planning sets out a framework for the future. Ideally it encourages improvements to the physical environment, helping to shape places, and balances competing proposals (for example, it tries to get something for the different interests of business and community, providing new buildings while protecting old ones.) more