Comment

Draft Interim Policy Statement for Housing Development

Representation ID: 3603

Received: 18/06/2020

Respondent: Mr Jamie Stevenson

Representation Summary:

Nice of you to share through the Let’s Talk gateway, but honestly it looks like a tick box exercise.. e.g. throw some baffling waffle out in to the community, which will only get responses from the usual candidates who understand the language, and overlooks the majority.

This approach is undemocratic and needs to engage people in a real way not just in a tokenistic way.

Full text:

Just trying to dig my way through the rather acronym riddled, virtually unreadable Policy Statement.

Nice of you to share through the Let’s Talk gateway, but honestly it looks like a tick box exercise.. e.g. throw some baffling waffle out in to the community, which will only get responses from the usual candidates who understand the language, and overlooks the majority.

I strongly feel that this approach is undemocratic and needs to engage people in a real way not just in a tokenistic way.

Please accept these comments from a literate person with two degrees who works for a university conducting health research – and I find it baffling.