Tuesday, 30 October 2007

Another day out of the office. This morning I was in Stevenage to chair a meeting of the Hertfordshire Infrastructure Consortium.

This was a key meeting as the Steering Group reported back on its work to date on the Consortium Development Plan. There was a very good attendance at the meeting, we had good discussions across a wide range of development issues, and there was clear consensus about key themes. In fact, I think it was perhaps the best HIC meeting yet: people obviously felt sufficiently comfortable to question and challenge, were well informed across a range of county-wide, regional and national agenda, and were ready and willing to share and exchange information and views. This was fortuitous as this morning we were joined by regional representatives of the Big Lottery and Capacitybuilders.

In the afternoon and evening, I stayed home preparing papers and policies for next week’s trustees meeting.