(N.21) STAKEHOLDERS' PROCESS

The Stakeholders' Process was initiated by the Crystal Palace Campaign in June 2002 but was run by an independent facilitator, Nigel Westaway and Associates now with help from the Environment Council and sponsored by the London Development Association (LDA).

The Stakeholders' Process consists of three bodies:

The Main Group - a broadly based body, essentially the 'controlling' forum to which two other working groups report. The Main Group has all the stakeholders as its members, including local councils, representatives from the Mayor's Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Tessa Jowel is the current DCMS Secretary of State and Olympics Minister), sports representatives etc. and some individual residents.

The Park Working Group - small distillation from the Main Group conducting regular detailed meetings investigating, park policy, park changes, criteria for park improvements, regeneration plans, inter-stakeholders' liaison, including the LDA, English Heritage, The Crystal Palace Museum, the amenity groups, residents associations etc. This group is guided by and reports back to the Main group.

The Sports Working Group - concentrates on sport in the park including plans for a new sports centre, now believed to be scheduled for 2014. This group reports back to the Park Working Group with which it has a close liaison.

• PURPOSE OF THE MEETING
  • To introduce the newly appointed Master Planners
  • To continue to discuss the housing proposals for the Sydenham and Rockhills gates
  • To agree a future dialogue and consultation process
• If there are particular points you want raised, let the Campaign know - mark the subject MAIN GROUP MEETING

• Mayor of London meets PWG 11 October 2006 - notes on meeting with Ken Livingstone at the City Hall
• CPC Newsletter 4 September 2006 - letter to Mayor concerning Sports Centre delay.
• Campaign Newsletter (27 July 2006): Master Planner selected; Residential Properties; Sports Centre.
• Code of Conduct for Working Group Members - June 2006
• LDA press release - 2006 consultation
• The London Development Agency's response to the consultation (ended 20 December 2005) can be found on the LDA website .
• Stakeholders' Dialogue Process - consultation Oct-Dec 2006, opening - comment and pictures.
  • The Core Principles (part of the consultation) for the Park were very widely approved - details can be found in the LDA press release of 24th January 2006. A full report of the Consultation results will be published following the Main Group meeting on 4th March - see later.
  • Following the first analysis of the results, it was clear that there were some reservations from the respondents concerning the proposed residential areas particularly at the Norwood Triangle Gate (formerly known as the Anerley Roundabout entrance).
  • A brief was presented to architectural advisors who sketched out some new ideas for the Norwood Gate which now were to have no residential content. These were discussed at the Park Working Group meeting of 20th February and will be presented at the Main Group Meeting.
  • The brief contained the comment:
  • The "Norwood Gate has been identified, through consultations, as being the most factious element of the vision and master plan. With particular concern over the idea of incorporating a residential element.
  • "As a result, it was agreed with the Park Working Group on 07_12_05 to develop an outline brief in response to the concerns, and generate further ideas to achieve a consensus."
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• What the LDA said...
• What BBC ON-Line says...
• Main Group Record, 24 September 2005
• LDA Public Consultation Report Sept/Oct 2004 - written by Nigel Westaway
• Main Group Record, 14 May 2005
• Main Group Record, 4 December 2004
• Talks have not stalled over park (P109) - letter in Croydon Advertiser 25 April 2003 describes the extent of support for the dialgue process with Bromley Council - in response to a misleading article published in that paper on 11 April 2003; also included here.
• Solutions for Crystal Palace? (P121) Croydon Advertiser, Letters, 6 June 2003
• Residents want Park to stay green (P100) (one of several articles on this theme - the consultation results)
• Crystal Palace Park, The Way Forward: The ongoing dialogue process initiated by the Crystal Palace Campaign and attended by most of the stakeholders in the Park has, in its "Main Group" meeting on 26 July 2003, approved (with some ammendments) the "Strategic Working Group's" report dated July 2003. The full report, entitled "The Interim Report of the Dialogue Group", (R83) is now included on the website.
• (R84) CRITERIA - Strategic Working Group Meeting August 2003
• (R93)  Crystal Palace Park - Wide agreement over future for Crystal Palace Park, 15 March 2004
• (R94) Crystal Palace Campaign News Bulletin 10 April 2004: re SWG meeting 5 April 2004
  

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