The People’s Transition Crumlin: A Community-Led Approach to Climate Justice
From October 2023 to November 2024, Bloomin’ Crumlin partnered with TASC and Dublin South City Partnership on The People’s Transition Crumlin, a project focused on ensuring that the transition to a zero-carbon society benefits local communities. Rooted in climate justice, the project aimed to tackle inequality and raise living standards through inclusive, community-driven solutions.
The project followed three key phases:
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Mapping Phase: Explored Crumlin’s local assets, history, and demographics using census data and the Pobal Deprivation Index. This helped identify barriers to participation and underrepresented groups.
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Community Engagement: Reached over 320 residents through workshops, focus groups, surveys and interviews. Key concerns included lack of community voice in decision-making, inequality, housing, cost of living, transport issues, and the need for social spaces and stronger biodiversity efforts.
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Solutions Co-creation: Residents helped design practical, community-led climate and social initiatives.
Three core solutions emerged:
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A Community Forum to strengthen local decision-making, encourage collaboration across groups, and act as a bridge to the council. Funding for a paid coordinator is recommended.
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A Community Centre, owned by the community, to support skills-sharing, socialising, sustainability initiatives, and serve as a local climate hub. This aligns with Community Wealth Building and could involve asset transfers of underused buildings.
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Enhancing Biodiversity and Green Spaces by building on Bloomin’ Crumlin’s work and the Biodiversity Action Plan. A community-led greening strategy would promote inclusive stewardship of local spaces and strengthen social and environmental benefits.
Bloomin’ Crumlin is proud to continue working on these solutions, ensuring climate action in Crumlin delivers real, lasting benefits for everyone.
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