Comments on: Southwark fudges the Sustainable Communities Act http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/ the struggle of memory against forgetting Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Power to the people! « tom's blog http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-204 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:50:26 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-204 [...] budgeting, made fun by the unsurpassably brilliant The People Speak, or really make the most of the Sustainable Communities Act. But what about the people [...]

]]> By: Eileen http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-8 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:12:48 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-8 The next meeting of the active citizens’ review of the SCA is on Monday 14th September 6.30pm-8.30pm at Keyworth Centre, LSBU, Elephant & Castle. Please email SCA@nutbrook.demon.co.uk to ask for venue details and to say you are coming!

]]> By: Lilian http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-7 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:12:25 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-7 thanks for that, tom, here’s a reminder for all you out there – a group of local communities is having a meeting on 14th september to work out exactly what can be done, so please let us know what you think, the link again is http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123:sca-what-now&catid=4:news&Itemid=3

thank you

]]> By: Ari http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-6 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:11:52 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-6 The Secertary of State has the power to send the council’s proposals back and have them start the procedure again – the problem with this is how does the community get the Secretary to do this?
There’ll be a survey on People’s Republic of Southwark hopefully later today, suggestions for questions to Liliana

]]> By: Tom Chance http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-5 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:11:18 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-5 I’m going to be doing exactly that over the next month. I’m looking for particularly good case studies so that we can both demonstrate our process is reasonable and put Southwark council officers in touch with those councils that did it well.

Thanks for the thoughts from Lewisham, it certainly sounds a lot more positive!

]]> By: Sue http://tom.acrewoods.net/2009/08/13/southwark-fudges-the-sustainable-communities-act/#comment-4 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:10:21 +0000 http://tomchance.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-4 Maybe it would be worth comparing notes on what happened it Lewisham and Southwark so both boroughs can improve things next time? I thought the citizens’ panel itself was reasonably well-organised in Lewisham (though the people on the panel rejected my proposal!), but that much more could have been done in the months before to let local people know about the act and how to suggest proposals. Lewisham also rejected a lot of proposals that didn’t meet the criteria, but the positive thing about this was because in most cases it was because the Council already had the power to implement the proposals. So now campaigners can start asking questions about why the Council isn’t using some of its powers etc.

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