on the outside

Great week of engagement with local residents, employers, public and third sector people on the RSA Transitions project.  We used three conceptual 'models' to illustrate the different ways the site could grow and bring in a mixture of revenue to support the provision of services to the client base: category D prisoners (who are allowed out on licence) and ex-offenders, whilst also providing employment opportunities for local people.

Of course that's a difficult and potentially controversial balance, but there was almost total support for the project from people and almost too many ideas about how to develop it.  Over the summer we now have to turn this huge amount of information into a preferred option that can be mapped out on the site as a masterplan.  Watch this space...