Please help save the Sustainable Communities Act!
Mon 28th November 2011
The Sustainable Communities Act is under serious threat. The radical new powers it gives you and your communities to influence government action risk being taken away.
Communities have already used the Act to make government take a whole range of actions, from helping to save local post offices and shops to promoting renewable energy.
However, government are planning to change the way the Act works and there is a real danger the Act will be seriously weakened. Government is due to put down new regulations very soon – likely to be before Christmas – governing how the Act will work in future. If the plans go ahead as set out in a recent consultation, the Act will be practically worthless. Years of hard campaigning that saw it made law will be wasted.
We need to campaign urgently to stop this but we can only do so with your help: please make a donation.
Our campaign to get the Act made law was all about reversing community decline. The Act has never been needed more than right now. We are facing severe cuts to local services that could have devastating effects on our communities.
This Act has set up the only way you can demand action from government to reverse this decline and actually see that action happen. Now there is a risk your powers will be taken away.
We can’t let this happen – we need to campaign to protect the Act.
So please donate and help us build the support necessary to convince government to change its plans: with your help, we can continue to fight for our communities.