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.
Using Links’ work in the Coventry and Warwickshire subregion, this page will illustrate how communities everywhere can use decision making processes to lobby on S&P concerns.
Outline Contents
The Log is a chronological record of approaches.
Council responses are incorporated into information included in page 17’s Local Participation Opportunities.
Document Store
Log
for 2010
Opportunities for participation in decision making:
Are councils responding to information requests?
Copy of the letter sent to Coventry and Warwickshire councils: VCS participation in decision making.
Information request enclosures.
Opportunities to promote sustainability through local decision making processes :
Are councils responding to information requests?
Copy of the letter sent to Coventry and Warwickshire councils: six key questions.
"We are seeing a move towards what local democracy was always supposed to be about - when the community is driving things... and the local authority's role is to facilitate that."
Rob Hopkins, Transition Network co-founder.
Topic Updates
This feature gives details of Links’ current lobbying work. Each year the site's Log will show the work that has – and hasn’t – been undertaken to promote S&P concerns by decision makers across the catchment area.
The next update – which will include more on the new local democratic opportunities – will be uploaded shortly, together with the most recent council / LSP responses on S&P.
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