Guides and Briefings on the Sustainable Communities Act for Citizens, Councillors and Officers
Local Works have produced several 'easy to read' guides and briefings for Citizens, Councillors and Officers on how the Act works and how to use it to do things like save the Post Offices, small shops, public services, promote democracy and protect the environment.
The Local Works Steering Group has produced a key list of suggested proposals, download it here
Guidance sheets with suggested proposals (on issues like protecting the environment, promoting local shops and services and promoting democratic involvement) can be viewed and downloaded here.
All Guides and briefings are available here.
Is your council going to use the Act? - these maps will tell you
You can only use the radical new bottom-up powers in the Sustainable Communities Act if your councils (district/borough/city and county) choose to use it too! See the map and list below for those who have. If your councils have not already done so please write to them (and urge others to write too!), this sample letter will help you.
Maps of the areas covered by councils which have agreed to use the Act this year can be viewed here.
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117 councils have resolved to use the Sustainable Communities Act, meaning their communities will be able to as well a full list can be viewed here.
The Local Government Association and its importance in the Sustainable Communities Act’s process
The Local Government Association is the ‘selector’ under the Act. Find out more about this here.
WORRIED ABOUT...
Are you worried about any of these?:
• decline of local jobs or businesses
• closure of the local Post Office, police station, small shop, pub, doctors surgery, dentist, hospital etc
• no affordable housing, local bus service or local, healthy food
• pollution and climate change, traffic wrecking quiet streets
• older people abandoned
Now you can fight back!
The new Sustainable Communities Act gives you, your neighbours and friends power to tell Government how to help you stop your community declining.
David Drew MP (Labour), Nick Hurd MP (Conservative) and Julia Goldsworthy MP (Lib Dem) that led the cross party campaign for the Act in Parliament. They say: “This is not just another consultation. This Act gives you power to protect and enhance your community, we urge you to use it.”
The Government Minister, Phil Woolas, told the House of Commons on 15 June 2007 that the Sustainable Communities Act was one of the most important such Acts in the last 40 years because, as he said: ‘I genuinely believe that it will change the relationships in British politics’.
