Using The Sustainable Communities Act - A Workshop
Terraces Bar and Grill
When -
Tuesday 28. April from 7:00pm until 9:00 pm
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Where - Terraces bar and Grill Madeira Drive .
Organised by - Greenspeak.
Using The Sustainable Communities Act - A Workshop
With Steve Shaw, Local Works Co-ordinator, Unlock Democracy and with input from Brighton & Hove City Council
In association with Transition Brighton and Hove and Unlock Democracy
7.00 – 9.00pm at Terraces Bar & Grill, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1PS (lower level, 200m East of Palace Pier), £donation Map & venue info
What would improve your neighbourhood's social, economic or environmental well-being?
This workshop will help you understand this new law, how it will work, what it means for you and your community, and how to use it. The event will help you formulate ideas, get feedback and turn those ideas into proposals.
Proposals must be submitted to the Council by 4th May 2009, with a further annual round of proposals thereafter.
A selection of suggestions collected nationally will be put forward to central government, who will be required to act upon them. For the first time, there is a co-operative element to decision making, with all decisions negotiated between relevant parties, and the process must be transparent. The purpose of the Act is to require national government to change existing rules to allow local councils new powers for the benefit of their communities.
Why? Because ‘citizens and councils are the experts on their own problems and the solutions to them’.
Such as?
Are you concerned about the loss of local jobs, businesses, declining services such as Post Offices, transport or health services? Affordable housing, pollution, traffic? Perhaps you can use the Act for the benefit of all.
To learn more about how the Act works and how to submit proposals, see the Council's info page: http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1201614 - contact speaker Steve Shaw 020 7278 4443 ext 106, Unlock Democracy's Local Works Coordinator, or at Brighton &Hove City Council contact Jonathan Bryant in the first instance, Policy Development Officer, 01273 290555
Martin Grimshaw, co-organiser, www.greenspeak.org.uk, 07891 571739, martin@greenspeak.org.uk
