Page Aim
Traditionally local democracy has been based on council elections and voters' access to council members. More recently an area's stakeholders have also been able to speak at their local authorities' council and council committee meetings.
Low voter turnout and other factors have led to Government attempts to re-engage local electorates through, eg, its modernisation and locality working programmes.
The page will be a permanent record of sustainability and / or participation concerns raised with Coventry and Warwickshire's decision makers through these new processes: as well as their responses.
It will illustrate how communities everywhere can use decision making processes to lobby on S&P.
Page Contents
Concerns Raised During 2003
LSPs’ Sustainability Focus
Sustainable Communities Bill
GATS
Earth Charter
Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change
LSP Use of Fair Trade
Transparency of Processes during 2003
Concerns Raised Between 2004: 2006
Information and Process Transparency
S&P
Climate Change Policies
Sustainability Policies
Sustainable Communities Bill
LSP Use of Fair Trade
Fairtrade Area Status
Transparency of Processes during 2004: 2006
LSPs’ S&P Rating
Concerns Raised during 2008
Sustainable Community Strategy Accessibility
Green Energy Procurement
Loyalty Card for Local Businesses
Transition Area Status
FE Colleges and Sustainability
Green Periodicals in Local Libraries
Government Outcome Targets
Sustainable Community Strategy Action Plans
Sustainable Communities Act 2007
Transparency of Processes during 2008
Page Updates
Archive material: the contents of this page are for information only.
A more comprehensive log of information requests and responses for 2004: 2007 will be uploaded during the next site update.
Terminology
Many process participants will agree that it's important for their organisations and their work to be 'sustainable', and may often use the word to bring a vague sense of social responsibility to their endeavours.
It is, however, a common and dangerous misconception that the sum total of such sustainabilities can somehow address our global unsustainability: it spectacularly misses the significance of the "think global, act local" maxim.
See the Glossary page.
Note to visitors
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