Sustainable Communities Act

The Sustainable Communities Act 2007 gives power to local authorities to submit proposals about the social, economic and environmental improvements they want to see introduced in their local areas. In October the government extended these powers to town and parish councils.

 

The Department for Communities and Local Government says: ‘This is the opportunity for town and parish councils to engage with the local community and ask for their ideas about how the community can be improved. If there are barriers to the implementation of these ideas they can use the Act to ask the government to remove them. The barriers can be in legislation or guidance or they may be the result of established practice.’