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ivan burit

For those that take interest in the regeneration of Tendring as a whole, and not just Golf Green, i have come across a regeneration site named East Oxford Action.
http://www.eastoxford.com/

"In order to deliver a successful transformation of a community, you need to understand that community. This is the first step in any EOA regeneration initiative. The mapping of communities includes understanding the way a community behaves in a locality, where are the meeting points, what are the routes through the landscape. The map also needs to have a historical dimension— places came into existence for a reason, such as a major junction of roads, a market place or industry, they go into decline when something happens to remove these reasons. It also needs to identify what the mental and emotional landscape—what the community cares about. Community focal points may be social or they may be physical, but they can trip up those who try to plan change without understanding".

This realistic reading statement from them gives a good indicator as to perhaps the route we should now be going in regeneration, more so as we now have Tendring Regeneration Ltd as a stand alone "guiding" (we hope) Company, that will be used as the tool for our own regeneration
in not only Brooklands & Grasslands of Jaywick, but the whole District.
This, my comments, are also to be thought of in our now serious quest in the setting up of Golf Greens very own Parrish Council, of which a mounting tide of enthusiasm is gaining on a daily basis, and hopefully continues to do so in its residents groups.

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ivan burit · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

More good down to earth reading on regeneration from EOA
http://www.eastoxford.com/transformative.html

Eight Princicples of Transformative Planning

Transformative planning is based on eight principles
• Psychology is at the heart of regeneration
• Change a bear community into a bull community
• The answer lies in the community
• Be positive
• Be rigorous
• Disadvantaged people are not a problem but part of the solution
• Support entrepreneurship — economic and social
• Use social capital

Social capital

A key concept for EOA's approach is that of social capital. The development of positive social capital is a key tool in transformative planning. EOA believes that it is crucial to develop all types of social capital - bonding, bridging and linking - within disadvantaged communities to enable them to achieve their potential.
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amenity · Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 775 Location: Dovercourt

Ivan, these people seem to have got something we could learn from. Good find.

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