Population

- a new feeling of being born, brought up, experiencing the personality forming aspects of life

- feeling others understand and value all places and cultures and vice versa

- more diversity of people

Community recognition of what is valued i.e to live and work where these are the things which are valued e.g. retaining housing and places of character. To understand why ways of living and the environment are valued, preserved - not as museums but as recognition of skills.

Local sourcing - of repairs, food etc

A new type of ‘nationalised’ industry - evolved from community businesses.

Community enterprises / buying groups:

• reflecting needs and interests across all ages
• young people brought up to have ownership of support services, newsletters, leisure facilities around them
• people recognise and can develop their skills and learning through community projects which they can use to further careers
• care sector and local communications/ networks delivered by local people on volunteer and paid basis

Facilities and skills shared e.g. school IT, building maintenance people also providing costed service for others

Caroline O’Neill

Local Autonomy - we know best

Farming: Don’t turn barns into holiday homes, use to grow food i.e. mushrooms; give grants to encourage new crops / animals, wild boars on moors etc, allowing for climate change vineyards

Fund renewable energy in all forms e.g. wave power

Only allow purchase of village houses to local community if new sale

Broadband connection everywhere

Peripatetic services such as health

Transport - improve all public transport and community transport

Mobile education schemes for country skills i.e. drystone walling, training in all new and old skills required for sustainability

Shirley Heselton

An open minded local population who listen and are preared to change their minds

Thriving, vibrant, young, opportunities

Sustainable solutions to flooding i.e. trees on moorland

Mixed communities, mixed businesses, new businesses, existing businesses, relocating businesses

Social enterprise not handouts

(Respect and consideration)

Skilled population - opportunitiesfor young people to stay or return

(Respect and consideration)

Land supply chains, local food and drink, acceptance that towms and countryside will change

(Respect and consideration)

Welcoming new jobs, welcoming new people who come to work and visit

More trees

Infrastructure including shops, stations, foorpaths, cycling, walks, open space, leisure, play

Welcoming acceess to the coutryside

Planners who try to enable  - not stop

Jonathan Kerr

I would like to see:

- Retention of young people / graduates

- Retention of local skills / trades

- Enterprising Market Towns – business centres (hubs) with units and grow-on space for new start up businesses

- Increased provisions for young people in rural areas; youth clubs, drop-in centres, organised activities, open spaces for sport and recreation

- Community centres / cultural centres for residents to meet and socialise

Kerry Straw

Abolition of chemicals on land

More wildlife

Social skills demonstration

Weaving – living fence making

Shearing

Care and husbandry of cattle and produce

More rural B&B etc

Smaller fields to encourage bird life etc

More public transport

Production and sale of local produce

Disused property put to use

A green and pleasant land

I Jackson

Otley

• Access to high-quality, fresh, good-value food for local people, from local food producers

• Meaningful, fairly-paid employment

• Sharing of resources LETS schemes

Swap a skill

Tool share schemes

• Re-emergence of land-based skills for a time when utility bills force us to look for heating and energy alternatives

• Wide-ranging and effective training available to all

Metalwork

Carpentry

Agricultural skills

Forestry management

• Local energy supplies

Village wind farms

Micro-hydro

Anaerobic digesters

• Credit unions, localized, more of them

• Rural projects

• Complete self sufficiency (or as near as!)

Kirstin Glendinning

Swillington Community Supported Agriculture

• An artisans way of thinking, passing skills on
• Generations that work together, learn together
• Rural and urban need each other; celebrate the differences
• Customer awareness using commerce to drive sustainability
• Heritage of the future; today making a difference for tomorrow, doing your bit
• Networks developing and sharing best practice
• Do it for each other and ourselves - not things done to us.
• Skillbuilders in every region

Graeme Perks

Skillbuilders CIC