Help shape the future and take part in the Romsey citizens’ assembly
Romsey residents are being called upon to help shape the future of their town and decide what community facilities are needed now and in years to come.
Romsey Future (RF) is working with Thinks Insight and Strategy and Plus Four Market Research to run a citizens’ assembly in July and September 2024.
The citizens’ assembly will see local people come together to consider key evidence and information and use this to create recommendations for RF to include in their plan to regenerate the area south of the town centre, which includes the Crosfield Hall site.
Between 2018 and 2020, RF worked with the local community to create the Romsey Town Centre Masterplan, which is a blueprint for the town’s redevelopment.
The masterplan didn’t make any firm conclusions around how and where to provide a community facility as it required further investigation, so the citizens’ assembly will be playing an important part in shaping the recommendations.
If you’d like to take part, you can register your interest by going to www.plus4.co.uk/romseyfuture.
Thinks Insight and Strategy and Plus Four Market Research will also be contacting people over the phone and visiting the town centre and local neighbourhoods to ask residents if they would like to join the citizens’ assembly.
There will be 36 people selected to take part, making sure that the group reflects the variety of people who call Romsey home.
Allie Jennings, Associate Director at Thinks Insight and Strategy, said: “We’re very excited to be designing and facilitating the citizens’ assembly for this important work on the future of community facilities in Romsey. We are looking forward to continuing to learn more about the town and the community when we meet the participants next month.”
You can find out more at www.romseyfuture.org.uk.