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Kirkby Unemployed Centre is a strange throwback to a previous era. It occupies a former infant school, built to a standard postwar design reminiscent of children's junk modelling. On the walls is an exhibition celebrating Merseysiders' involvement in the International Brigade during the Spanish civil war. Pictures of Nelson …
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I agree… I wrote a piece on PB for The Guardian a few years ago… as you say, they are a good way of getting far greater involvement and support for local spending decisions, and that could be (and is) applied to wider areas such as Total Place.
What …
Robert Bullard on 9th March 2010:
Parish councils: an unlikely hothouse for community development?
They say politics is about simple ideas try this:
Petition to prime minister
We demand that any oil found in the Falklands and proceeds
from these sales be use to provide infrastructure which I
define as housing, roads high speed rail links and coastal
defence. …
alex kendall on 4th March 2010:
Which side of regeneration are you on?
I agree with much of what you say, especially regarding the blatant appeal
to NIMBY-ism, disguised as a desire to empower local people at the expense
of central government.
Developers have a real fear that this Green Paper is a charter for action
groups and residents’ associations.
Peter Leaver, planning partner, King Sturge on 4th March 2010:
Tory green paper is anti-development
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