Engagement Activity Update - May 2021

What’s next in our engagement?

Thank you to everyone who has shared their thoughts and ideas with us via our ‘Give us your ideas’, ‘Vision of the Future’ and ‘Three words on what’s important to you’ tools so far.

What we’ve seen so far is going to help shape our next stage of engagement, which is coming up in the summer. This stage will look at what vision and objectives we all see for this Garden Community.

In this stage of engagement, we’ll close the ‘Vision of the Future’ and ‘Three words on what’s important to you’ tools. However, the ‘Give us your ideas’ tool will stay open and we hope you’ll carry on adding new ideas and ‘ ’ the ones you like.

This stage of engagement will look at things in a bit more detail. Looking at the ideas we’ve had submitted so far, we’ll group important topics together under a set of themes, and start to ask you more specific questions on those themes. The results of these questions will help to evolve our thinking further.

After that, we will carry out more engagement activity looking at the vision and objectives for the Garden Community. This will involve; themed surveys and other activities on our engagement website; hosting virtual workshops with community groups and key stakeholders; and discussions with our new Community Liaison Group and Youth Liaison Group, among other activity.

The main messages from this activity will then be summarised into a report, which will help shape a second phase of engagement in the autumn. This phase of engagement will refine the vision for the Garden Community and lead into options for how the Garden Community layout could look.

We’ll keep you updated on this timeline of activity. And, please keep the ideas coming!