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There is the local community fund and there is talk of communities being involved in planning issues. When new housing or new transport infrastructure is being built, could councils be more proactive in reaching out to groups such as disabled people and offering them the opportunity to get involved?
My colleague Ted Brocklebank found the visit moving and interesting, given that it was his first visit to the area.It is important and appropriate that the Parliament highlights our concerns on this issue following last week's world poverty day.
Three of the major items on that committee's agenda concerned community planning issues that had been taken through the whole process and in which new council funding and new partnership funding had been invested.Community planning is beginning to work its way through.