“I am at make or break… I may not be around to advocate for the community because I have to go to work.”
Resident and social enterprise leader
Quote: Stainforth (2)
“The developer has diverted democracy”
Quote: Stainforth
“Planning for justice involves the protection of heritage.”
Community leader in Stainforth
Quote: Rhyl
One interviewee stated that Rhyl has had some “great schemes [and] spent millions of pounds”, but it’s “it’s never on something that has been a real community need. It’s been more about what the [local council] think the community need”.
Quote: West Armagh
“I genuinely think if we continue doing what we’re doing we’re going to promote continued failure and we’re going to continue to have high statistics of addiction, mental health, unemployment and poverty, and we need a new way of going forward to empower local community to have hope for themselves, if we continue doing what we’re doing we’re continuing that cycle of generational unemployment, mental health, disability and addiction”
West Armagh resident and community leader
Quote: Colin, Northern Ireland
“The Colin area is a vibrant community that still needs considerable physical and financial investment from the public and private sectors as the potential has yet to be realised because the location is, by and large, designated by government to be socially deprived. The area desperately needs coordinated policy and resources to tackle the underlying problems that continue to exist”
Bernard, Colin Neighbourhood Partnership director
