Talk:How can Community Strategies be turned into Sustainable Community Strategies?

At a simplistic level, the way to make this change is easy: the Government writes appropriate targets into the local monitoring regimes and says that people will lose funds and even their jobs if these aren't met. That's an approach that's worked very well in Nottingham City to concentrate the minds of the LSP, community empowerment network, City Council et al exclusively on a narrow set of Neighbourhood Renewal targets. Mention sustainable development and you get responses along the lines that they're not interested in that weird tree-hugging stuff as they're too busy helping the people. --80.229.55.67 16:46, 11 Oct 2005 (UTC)