Claude Hendrickson, who shared the Chapeltown story at the exhibition, said: “It shows both what’s possible when communities are trusted and how easily opportunities can be shut down.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, mine is just one of many stories across the country with a similar ending.”<\/p>\n
He added: “For every ‘yes’ communities get, there are one million ‘nos’ \u2013 and that can be hugely discouraging for local people who simply want to make their places better.”<\/p>\n
“The garden that never grew” was a community group in Gipton hoping to create a shared community space where residents could grow food and host events. <\/p>\n
However, organisers said it failed for several reasons, including “poor communication between council departments”.<\/p>\n
Rich Bell, director of the We’re Right Here campaign, said: “It’s heart-breaking to see so many brilliant community projects that could have changed lives but never got the chance. <\/p>\n
“These stories show the human cost of a system that sidelines local people, even when they have the skills and vision to make a difference.”<\/p>\n
He added: The bill is a once in a generation opportunity to put community voice at the heart of the devolution agenda – if we get this right, we can unlock the creativity and energy that already exists in every town and neighbourhood across the country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claude Hendrickson, who shared the Chapeltown story at the exhibition, said: “It shows both what’s possible when communities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155240619939212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}