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through social programmes and community activities. Through such social and community activities, there are more opportunities for the lay people to meet the officers in casual and relaxed environments. Another important benefit that can be gained by having such activities is that it also creates opportunities for the residents to meet one another and interact and this may help in promoting social capital, which is found to have some profound impacts on making people to be more participative in planning.
CONCLUSION Planning a town needs collaboration. For people to engage more effectively in planning, they need to work together to ensure that the outcome of their collective actions would benefit all spectrums of the communities. However, to be able to work together, there is a need to dissolve suspicions between one another and this can be done through a solid ground of trust and positive relationship between one another. This paper has demonstrated that there might be a link particularly between trust and participation. Future studies should be geared to examining how trust can influence motivation to participate in planning.
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