Good News.
Following on from our report in the SIBA newsletter last week, as of today 111 councils have now resolved to use the new ‘bottom up’ process in the Sustainable Communities Act. This is nearly a third of all the councils in the country and it includes all the major city councils outside London. This means that they will be putting proposals from themselves and their residents to the Local Government Association by 31st July 2009.
The full list of these 111 councils is available on the front page of the Local Works website – www.localworks.org
This process is live and happening right now. These councils are approaching their citizens for their ideas on what to propose to government. Proposals can be for anything government could do to promote ‘sustainable communities’ as broadly defined in the Act. So local people and councils could, for example, propose changes to the planning rules, devolution of powers from central and regional level to local level, new legislation and new government policy or strategy. The potential of this Act is exceptional, so please use it.
Local Works will soon be publishing a list of suggested proposals. We will be informed as soon as these are ready.
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