Community Participation and Governance

What is Community Participation?

Community participation is the involvement of local people and organisations to solve their own problems. People cannot be forced to ‘participate’ in projects which affect their livelihoods but should be given the opportunity where possible. Power is decentralised and fragmented. People in different groups should complete together to get their voices heard, and have diverse resources to articulate their cases, in order to further promote Pluralism.

Why Pluralism is important?

Pluralism is seeking to identify the qualities and experiences that unite rather than divide us as people and to forge a shared stake in the public good. It not only fosters equal participation of all citizens in political, economic and cultural life, but also enables individuals and community groups to express their cultural, linguistic and religious identities within a framework of shared citizenship, in order to create a more equitable and peaceful human development.

Public Private Partnership

The overall delivery arrangement is Public Private Partnership. The arrangement fits to our vision statement "To revitalise the historic Royal Docks by delivering an innovative, sustainable and connected centre for communities and businesses to thrive". Not only the local residents in Silvertown Quays, we would also like to create a suitable and future proof place for the people surrounding the site, meeting the local needs for the whole area in Royal Docks.

Stakeholders involved:

Private sector

Lendlease
Silvertown Homes

Public sector

GLA Team
Newham Borough
Local residents

Funding

Good Growth Fund

Delivered by the Mayor and the London Economic Action Plan (LEAP)
A 70 million regeneration programme
Support innovative projects and place-based strategy delivery, including high streets, town centres and industrial areas
Give expert advice and support regeneration
Applicable to both general public and private sectors, such as community organisations and London Boroughs

Crowd Funder

Encourage create project ideas to make local places more innovative and attractive
Support local areas to create distinctive characters to enhance local economy
People need a vibrant campaign that illustrates local prosperity growth, and community empowerment to achieve successful in the grant application and play an active role in the regeneration area.
The Royal Docks Crowd Fund could be lucrative.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Budget enlargement
Capacity enlargement
Good governance leads to good regeneration and engaging stakeholders leads to better regeneration outcomes.
People come together to form different element and practice synergy and co-ordination

Cons

Different exceptions of different stakeholders
Tensions and difficulties to combine ideas and discussions.
Different stakeholders are not round the table
Low transparency

Character

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