“I’d like decision makers to come out first of all… to the land… to what they are going to decide on… Listen to us. We’ve lived here all our lives. It does affect us greatly.
Just do not decide from afar without coming and seeing what you are deciding on.”
Billy Collins, Local resident and campaigner
Conisbrough and Denaby Main, Doncaster
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“More people on the streets giving more confidence in people in charge would deal with a lot of the root causes”
Chris Bloomfield, TYCP Youth Development Worker
North Ormesby, Middlesbrough
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“When we plan projects and want to achieve success in whatever we do it is very important that we use coproduction, communities need to take part from inception… it is very important that leaders of local authorities they come down to where the communities are. It is so frustrating when leaders are over there dictating what to do without coming down to get involved and talk to people. It is very important to have that relationship with the local residents”
Cllr John Kabuye, community leader
Newport, Middlesbrough
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“If one’s [energy project] being forced upon us, we want to make sure there’s proper community benefits coming back from that project… There’s no guarantee if we’re going to get community benefits and how much they’ll be and who will administer them, the whole thing… We need to agree what the figure is and it needs to be set in stone… It needs to come to the local community because we’re the ones that are putting up with the loss of the land, the eyesore, all of that”
Charlotte Copeland, Secretary of Benarty Community Council
Benarty, Fife, Scotland
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