Comment 103898

By RobF (registered) | Posted August 12, 2014 at 14:41:32 in reply to Comment 103891

Not trying to put words in words in your mouth. You said "The purpose of community engagement should be to make developments better, not to prevent them from going ahead". You may intend us to read between the lines, but there isn't much nuance expressed in your assertion. I'm sensitive to slippages in arguments. Your reply above expresses a very much more nuanced take on the matter ... I agree with you. Ideally, planning and development should be a reflexive/iterative process that attempts to accommodate community concerns and desires. Where the engagement process is substantive and meaningful the end result in theory should be better than if no consultation took place. Of course, I'm not opposed in principle to intensification and don't think that neighbourhood "character" is or should be viewed as static (or be too strongly anchored in the physical fabric of a place).

Comment edited by RobF on 2014-08-12 14:42:44

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