{"id":614,"date":"2025-11-04T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/?p=614"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:13:00","slug":"introducing-state-a-new-way-to-have-your-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Introducing &#8216;State&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0A new way to have your say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/State-screenshot-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/State-screenshot-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/State-screenshot-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/State-screenshot-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/State-screenshot.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are excited to be working with&nbsp;<strong>State<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 a new platform for democratic participation that puts power back in the hands of communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State is developing a powerful tool to help residents have their voices heard on major local issues. As part of their pilot, they\u2019re working with the&nbsp;<strong>Our North Finchley<\/strong>&nbsp;campaign to trial the platform and ensure it reflects what real people want and need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now use&nbsp;<strong>State<\/strong>&nbsp;to explore and have your say on four key topics (click on each to open the topic and have your say):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-a164ec74f572f9261eed99439963b121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/state.com\/app\/topic\/05ab7bc4-6ea9-4bac-9d2f-cbc8031c3235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Lodge Lane Car Park<\/strong>\ufeff<\/a><strong><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/state.com\/app\/topic\/996efcce-4ead-40d8-a3d3-84af71e24b0f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Great North Leisure Park (GNLP)<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/state.com\/app\/topic\/fdfa8765-5875-45c9-9b1f-5d7a57b775c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>North Finchley Town Centre Masterplan<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/state.com\/app\/topic\/e0746005-b6a7-4460-93af-b7b93ae61afe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Improve Citizens Consultations in Barnet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is quick and easy to leave your views, read others\u2019 contributions, and get a sense of where the community stands. The goal is to give local people a direct voice in decisions that affect our area, and to show what real community-led development could look like. The statements people make can then&nbsp;be read easily by our elected representatives.\ufeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember this is still at the piloting stage and so there may be some teething issues. Please feel free to share these links with others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to be working with&nbsp;State&nbsp;\u2013 a new platform for democratic participation that puts power back in the hands of communities. State is developing a powerful tool to help residents have their voices heard on major local issues. As part of their pilot, they\u2019re working with the&nbsp;Our North Finchley&nbsp;campaign to trial the platform and&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ournorthfinchley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}