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Sustainable
Communities Bill
Local economic and
community decline. Shops, post offices, pubs, doctors, schools,
banks closing; local jobs decreasing. 'Sustainable communities'
may be the buzz-words; but the reality is continuing decline.
Local Works - Summer 2005
broadsheet.
The
Chamber hosted a
'breakfast meeting' on Monday 13th February 2006
at the Alpine Restaurant,
Bowness-on-Windermere, and was chaired by Barry Butler.
The breakfast was
enjoyed by 25
Chamber members together with representatives of other organisations and interested groups.
The
guest speaker was Tim Farron, MP, who spoke on the 'Sustainable Communities
Bill.
Tim explained that the Bill would be put
before the House of Commons as a 'cross party' 7 day motion. He
then went onto explain what the Bill was all about and answered numerous
questions raised by those present.
What Is The Bill All
About?
The Bill aims to
reverse the process of 'Ghost Town Britain' by devolving decision making
way from Central Government and down to the local communities In the last decade
Britain has lost a fifth of all its Post Offices, a quarter of all its
independent grocery stores and a third of all its bank branches.
There has also been a huge decline in other local services and
facilities - local doctors and dentists, police stations, chemists.
The opposite to Ghost
Town Britain is sustainable communities - that is thriving, living
communities that involve and care for their people and their
environment.
The 12 reasons to
stop 'Ghost Town Britain';
Why an Act of
Parliament?
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Promoting local sustainability must
not just be 'a good idea': it needs to happen and one way to ensure
this, is to require it - legally.
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To allow councils
and communities to drive government policy.
For further information
on the wording of the Bill, please click on
Sustainable
Communities Bill.
The comments above are
those of Local Works and
not those of the Windermere & Bowness Chamber of Trade.
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