\n However, here is an extension that could be a blue- print for the new emerging paradigm of social consciousness.<\/span>
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The aim is simple:<\/p>\n
1) Divide your borough into Sectors of quadrants of about 25 streets, roads, and avenues. <\/p>\n
2) Select a representative to speak for your street or section of Street. If your Street has hundreds of houses, then divide the street up to say a maximum
\n of 35 houses\/apartments, per Street Co ordinators<\/p>\n
3) The carrot to bring these Street coordinators on board would be to offer them a discount or rebate on their annual housing\/property rates.<\/b> <\/p>\n
4) Their job would be to liaise with every house-hold representative in the street. Where they would introduce themselves and tell them that you are there
\n to support them by being a liaison between them, the local council, as well as the police.<\/p>\n
They explain to the house occupier that they write up the names of all those occupants in the house, take their phone number and advise them that if there You may also impress upon them security needs, when going away i.e have someone pick up their mail every day, leaving different low energy lights on in Finally when the Street \/ Road Coordinators go as a group to the local council offices they gather in front of councillors, the local police constable Items that could be covered are:<\/p>\n Need for more judder bars to curtail speeding. This meeting would possibly last for a total of one and a half to two hours. At the end of this time the Councillors, Mayor and Police would have a fairly The above is a frame work, a blueprint with what we can possibly do to enable a peaceful system of 'Neighbourhood Support' to be active nationwide.<\/p>\n This Neighbourhood Support concept needs central Govt and local Govt support. Where we were at St Mary's Bay, we had a small park where we had Guy Fawkes celebration (of all ghoulish things) with bonfire and crackers for the kids, As the neighbourhood representative of our street Yarborough St a very small street, I myself even went as far as producing my own news \u2018broad sheet\u2019 which The concept of Neighbourhood Support is an idea whose time has come, especially with climate change and social dysfunctionality becoming more prevalent Note that it was the public spirited NZ owned New Zealand Insurance Company who gave the 'seed money' to start this off. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Neighbourhood Watch to Neighbourhood Support! A Paradigm Shift in Community Care & Connection. Bringing people together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n is any pressing matters that effect them in the street, that every 1, or 2 months (to be decided by council) they (along with other Street Coordinators
\n in the local area) will meet with the authorities to brief them of what is happening in your street.<\/strong> You don\u2019t have to
\n give the names of the people over to anyone outside that Street. It remains with the St Coordinator. (Yes their is privacy requirements around this.)<\/p>\n
\n different rooms at night, etc plus anything relating to health and safety. Maybe offer them a DVD on home and street security, or discuss a w.w.web
\n site devoted to this subject.<\/p>\n
\n and possibly the Deputy Mayor and each St Coordinator is asked to give a 2 to 3 minute synopsis of what\u2019s happening on their respective street.<\/p>\n
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A need for a rubbish bin at the end of the street where, there maybe is a park\/ beach etc.
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That the street needs better cleaning, of debris etc.
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Removal of graffiti from walls etc
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That there were either no burglaries or a burglary \/ assault that happened on such a such a date. And what resulted.
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If there was a house fire.
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Other ...<\/p>\n
\n comprehensive understanding of what\u2019s happening throughout the community and suburb. <\/p>\n
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And depending on how organised everyone in the street is, as well as how much time the St coordinator has, you could have a Street party, especially
\n at Christmas where carols were sung, or the Salvation Army came and played music.<\/p>\n
\n and parents would bring snacks and drinks and it was an opportunity to get to know your neighbours. We even had the neighbourhood men get together
\n to plant a good number of daffodil bulbs in the corners of the park and they are still bursting forth every spring in increasing numbers.<\/p>\n
\n I printed off for those in the street. It was an enjoyable public spirited fun thing to do for a couple of years. <\/p>\n
\n in our society. The need to cooperate for our common survival will become paramount!<\/p>\n![\"Neighbourhood](\"\/logo.jpg\" "\\"Neighbourhood"){kind=logo}
\n <\/p>\n