Section 44 - community planning etc: community involvement
85.Section 44 requires a local authority and its community planning partners to make arrangements to involve and take account of the views of:
local residents;
non-residents who receive services provided by the authority or one of its community planning partners;
representatives of voluntary organisations;
representatives of business interests; and
anyone else whom the authority considers to have an interest in improving the area’s social, economic or environmental well-being
in connection with community planning, preparation of a community strategy and the review of a community strategy.