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We have teamed up with Charon QC to do a series of political podcasts for the Wardman Wire.
Mark Jones is an activist in the small community of Pleasley Hill, in Nottinghamshire. The blog Plight of Pleasley Hill has been set up to draw attention to the work of a small group to revive a sense of community in a small area of terraced housing comprising 3 streets and approximately 125 people.
This initiative launched in early June 2009.
I have interviewed Mark for Politalks because I am interested in very small scale regeneration undertaken by communities themselves, and I think that doing things on a *really* small scale is one of the keys to rebuilding local civic society and politics. By “really small scale” I mean in groups and localities which are small enough for everyone to essentially know all their neighbours.
In this interview, Mark talks about the aims of their project, and the good and bad experiences in trying to work with their local authority as a very small group.
There is much worth listening to here for Local Councillors and Community Development officers.
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[...] now a podcast of an interview with Mark Jones, who initiated the group, online here and it is interesting to hear of the challenges this group has faced setting up, the issues it is [...]
[...] an area of 3 or 4 streets in the Nottinghamshire village of Pleasley Hill, near Mansfield. I did a podcast interview with Mark Jones, who has triggered the project, for the Politalks podcast. One interesting point is how the [...]
[...] an area of 3 or 4 streets in the Nottinghamshire village of Pleasley Hill, near Mansfield. I did a podcast interview with Mark Jones, who has triggered the project, for the Politalks podcast. One interesting point is how the [...]
[...] an area of 3 or 4 streets in the Nottinghamshire village of Pleasley Hill, near Mansfield. I did a podcast interview with Mark Jones, who has triggered the project, for the Politalks podcast. One interesting point is how the [...]
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