Your Place, Your Voice

Young people helping to shape the future of Thurrock

Thurrock’s Youth Cabinet are taking an active role in helping to shape the future of the borough by taking part in a series of interactive workshops on the new Local Plan.

When adopted the new Local Plan will set out a vision for what the borough and places within it will look and feel like in the future and contain policies that make sure new developments are built in the right way, in the right place and at the right time. It will also set out policies that protect the things which make our borough special and plan for other things that are needed alongside development making our places more resilient and responsive to the needs of people who live and work there now and in the future.

Members of the Youth Cabinet, who are all aged between 11 and 18 years-old, have helped make sure that young people have a voice in the future of the borough that they will live in. Raising issues around things like antisocial behaviour in our centres, the need to make places feel more welcoming and inclusive and thinking about how planning could encourage more empty buildings to brought back into active uses.

Through their workshops members of Youth Cabinet have been able to provide vital feedback and a younger perspective.