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Bid to persuade City Council to sign up to initiative
Worcester Green Party's first campaign of 2006 saw the Local Party successful in trying to get Worcester City Council to sign up to the Sustainable Communities Bill.
Robert Wilkins, Campaigns Officer with Worcester Green Party, wrote to councillors to try to persuade them to pass a resolution of support for the Bill. The Sustainable Communities Bill seeks to reverse the decline of local services and facilities which affects local communities, and in particular the elderly and least well-off.
The Bill requires the government to assist local councils and communities in promoting 'local sustainability'. It does not impose any new duties on councils, but instead enables them to influence how government uses its resources and influence to help councils and communities. The Greens also asked the council to write to City MP Mike Foster, asking him to support EDM (Early Day Motion) No.641 in support of the Bill. 237 MPs have signed supportive motions in Parliament, and the Bill has the support of 62 national organisations and 8,000 individual supporters across the country.
Said Mr Wilkins"Greens believe that local communities and councils are the experts on their own problems - and the solutions to them. Not Whitehall; not central government. This Bill, if passed, will require the Secretary of State to ask councils and communities how government can help them.
" We believe that this Bill, if enacted, will help to halt the decline in our local communities - loss of local shops, loss of local jobs, increased traffic through increased commuting. This campaign is also about making democracy work again for people on issues that they face every day when they open their front doors - the decline of their communities.
"This is an important Bill for the Green Party which goes to the heart of what we are about - strong local economies, better public services and more accountability."
Printed, published and promoted by Chris Lennard for Worcester Green Party, both at 53 Gloucester Close, Malvern, Worcs WR14 1DG