Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Bill - SUCCESS!

Fri 9th Apr 2010

Fantastic news!: On Thursday 8th April 2010 the Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Bill successfully passed through the House of Commons and the House of Lords and became law.

This has been a totally unprecedented and quite astonishing event. This back bencher Bill had such strong cross party support as to cause the Government to give it extra Parliamentary time to ensure its success before Parliament was dissolved for the election. Local Works thank and congratulate the Minister, John Denham MP, for his ongoing efforts and support that helped see this happen.

Thank you so much if you helped see this happen. This success would not have been possible without the huge amount of lobbying that Ministers received from citizens urging them to give the Bill time.

The front and back benches of all political parties gave high praise and ringing endorsement to the efforts of the Local Works coalition and expressed how impressive we are in size and diversity.

This means that the now amended Sustainable Communities Act will be an ongoing process and that the 'second round' of that process will begin by the end of 2010. It also means that Parish and Town Councils will be formally included in that process.

The Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Act can be viewed here.

Note: the 'first round' of the Act started in October 2008 and shortlisted proposals from that round are now before the government.