4.5B Lived experience

• lived experience impacts engagement of an area due to:

  • age
  • gender
  • ethnicity
  • level of deprivation
  • length of residency
• Place attachment = the bond between an individual or community and a location, It might be thought of as how much people care for a place. 
• • People engage with their place through community action groups. These are created for many reasons:
  • Voluntary committees managing local allotments, open spaces and nature reserves, village shops 
  • Powerful and vocal 'NIMBY' (not in my backyard) groups protesting over planned developments, such as new housing, fracking and wind farms 
• • These factors may make a person feel excluded by a place or foster a sense of attachment to it. This impacts the levels of community engagement 
  • Globalisation impacts on young people due to the wider cultural influences they experience (social media, music, food, fashion)
  • Some people (e.g. young people, ethnic minority groups, and the poor) can feel that a place does not represent them, leading to a sense of exclusion and marginalisation