User blog:Philralph/Communities and local government, comment on programme

draft of comment to CLG site posted to site at about 5pm BST, June 9. Philralph @ sca21

My local council, Tonbridge and Malling, as far as I know, choose not to do anything via the Sustainable Communities Act, so unless there's something like Local Agenda 21, and it isn't just optional, it's difficult to see how anyone interested in the sustainability of their local community will actually get any genuine opportunity for involvement?


 * Coalition programme for government includes:
 * "We will implement the Sustainable Communities Act, so that citizens know how taxpayers’ money is spent in their area and have a greater say over how it is spent."