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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Representation ID: 596
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: Dudley CVS
The Core Strategy could incorporate more around place based social change in terms of animating and re-purposing latent assets, both physical (e.g. creative spaces); and human (e.g. skills, connectivity, capabilities), and the values and processes which facilitate this. Evidence gathered through our place based work (in Dudley town centre) shows clear evidence of the building of social capital and offers valuable insight into what that connectivity and network development secures in terms of wellbeing and resilience. With the creative space and time to experiment, an organic, citizen-led response to complex needs around the de-generation of Dudley is developing.
The Core Strategy could incorporate more around place based social change in terms of animating and re-purposing latent assets, both physical (e.g. creative spaces); and human (e.g. skills, connectivity, capabilities), and the values and processes which facilitate this. Evidence gathered through our place based work (in Dudley town centre) shows clear evidence of the building of social capital and offers valuable insight into what that connectivity and network development secures in terms of wellbeing and resilience. With the creative space and time to experiment, an organic, citizen-led response to complex needs around the de-generation of Dudley is developing.