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Regeneration and its partners planned a series of projects
and events that enabled local people to get practically
involved in the next steps of planning for the regeneration
of the Lower Lea Valley and for the Olympic Games. These
were very practical, included a strong (though not exclusive)
emphasis on young people and drew on our extensive community
networks to ensure that they involved members of socially
excluded local communities.
As well as enabling local people to get involved with
these specific regeneration projects, the aims were
to use these projects to illustrate the broader approaches
to physical regeneration throughout the Lower Lea Valley
and the ways in which planning for the Olympic Games
will impact on these approaches.
A range of people and organisations across the Lower
Lea Valley are involved in work aimed at engaging local
people in the master-planning of the regeneration of
the Lower Lea Valley and of the Olympics. This programme
built upon existing stakeholder engagement and extended
in such a way that it was easily accdessible and can
be taken in new directions as the wider work programme
develops. The community engagement programme will be
strengthened to feed into the tasks of master-planning
the Olympics and winning support for the Olympics proposals.
This Programme builds on early opportunities to capture
the interest and excitement of local people through
small projects and events. However, it is also important
to make sure that these add value to the activities
of the boroughs and of higher level strategic bodies
such as the LDA, GLA and London 2012, and vice versa.
It will be increasingly important as time passes to
make sure that the activities of local people and community
organisations are well co-ordinated without being squashed
by too much central organisation.
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