Victoria was quite enthusiastic in the role that Open-City is developing to enable local non-professional people (in the planning and design sense) to make an informed contribution to planning.
This is exactly what we are attempting to start around Sydenham and Forest Hill (and Honor Oak) with this evening's neighbourhood planning meeting. We are involving local professional, local non-professional, and local governmental experts in this process from the very beginning to see if such an approach would be useful for the local area.