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Contact other Departments within your Council and
get them on board. They may
have access to funds that you don’t, such as street lighting,
environmental improvements etc. |
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Split your Home Zone up on a street by street or
area basis when undertaking design workshops.
This gets local people together and if they have opposing views they
can sort it directly between them. |
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Try to have one Officer who acts as a single focus
for the Home Zone. It has been
found that if one person maintains this role throughout, things should go
more smoothly. |
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Quick wins, following suggestions emerging from the
early stages of public consultation, such as improving street lighting or
providing/improving play areas, even if they are beyond the scope of the
Home Zone, keep residents on board and momentum going. |
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When on site go out in your civvies unless you want
to be known as ‘the suits’! |
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Try to manage residents expectations from the
beginning. Don’t say they can
have whatever they want unless you have an unlimited budget! |
| Try to get local groups on board who may be able to
help you with tasks such as consultation and planting at no/minimal expense. |
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Hold Public Consultation events within the Home
Zone at all costs even if this means you have to hire a marquee or a mobile
unit. You’ll get a better
response! |
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Involve the local press at all stages to maintain
the profile of the Home Zone. Shows
you are doing something! |
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Don’t be too blinkered by engineering standards
– throw DMRB away!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Get the emergency services on board from the very
beginning. |
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Residents often find it easier to understand models
and aerial photographs rather than plans. |
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Try to get residents talking - both within a Home Zone area and between Home Zones.
Take residents to a completed Home Zone and get them talking to the
residents there to let them pass on their experiences. |
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Use simple language at all times. |
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Try to get residents to ‘buy in’ by letting
them take responsibility for landscaping areas etc. |
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Get the kids to help plant the trees – they may
then be less likely to snap them at a later date! |
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Make promises and stick to them – show
commitment. For example promise
at the beginning that if a tree gets snapped you will replace it twice.
After that it will be replaced with a boulder! |
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Make contractors work for you from the very
beginning. Hold a mini Traffex
in your street so residents can see different materials and features.
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