The European Concept For Accessibility 2003

4.1.2 Political Planning

Having drawn up the document on the current state of the environment, the next step concerns political leadership and the planning of future interventions.

A) Political leadership: Appointments should be made of members of local government who will accept responsibility for creating the "City For All" as well as those who will take on specific aspects of management, planning and dissemination of information.

In addition, a list should be drawn up of those local government departments or external agencies that will play an important role (for example, social welfare, town planning, sports, maintenance) and, in order to ensure smooth running, an internal coordinating committee should be set up.

B) General priorities: in order to plan the development of the intervention the information collected during the diagnostic stage should be collated with the political programme and any interventions being planned by non-municipal promoters (gas, water, fibre optic companies, etc.). When setting priorities it should be remembered that it is not only the public highway which should be accessible, but also information and services (for example, sport, Web sites, parking facilities).