Take Action!

Please take a few moments to help the Sustainable Communities Act succeed by doing the following:

URGENT ACTION: Please write to, or email, your MP asking them to write to Communities Minister, Greg Clark, regarding the pending Sustainable Communities Act regulations. We are very concern these regulations will weaken the Act, rather than strengthening it.

Suggested points to make are below. Please personalise your message. You can find out who your MP is and their contact details here: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk.

Points to make in your letter/email to your MP:
1. Express your concern that the pending Sustainable Communities Act regulations will weaken the Act, when they need to strengthen it.
2. Say the regulations need to include three things:
- A duty on Local Authorities to try to reach agreement with local people on what proposals to put forward under the Act - because this duty is fundamental to the ‘bottom-up’ philosophy and process that the Act has set up,
- A time limit on dealing with proposals local people make - because in the first round people had to wait over 18 months to receive a response and if there are delays like this again people will be frustrated and simply lose interest; and
- The right for town and parish councils to be able to submit proposals under the Act - because all councils should be able to get involved directly and this was explicitly intended by the Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Act 2010.
3. Ask your MP to please write to Communities Minister, Greg Clark, urging him to ensure the three things above are included in the pending regulations.

ALSO: Please sign up to Local Works! Then we can keep you informed of campaign progress and ask you to take action at key moments of the Sustainable Communities Act's process. Our success has been due to our active supporters.

Thank you!

Note: the Sustainable Communities Act currently applies to England only