{"id":31927,"date":"2021-12-03T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31927"},"modified":"2021-12-03T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:07:06","slug":"campaigners-call-for-new-law-to-empower-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31927","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners call for new law to empower communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30660\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Houses-beautiful-homes-Open-Government-Licence-v3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>Campaigners on the \u2018We\u2019re Right Here\u2019 campaign have called for a new Community Power Act to give communities a legal right to self-determination.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 empowering communities is essential to fulfilling your ambition of levelling up the country\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>LocalGov<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The We\u2019re Right Here campaign argues new legislation would ensure local authorities would have to make decisions about services and spaces at the &#8216;most local&#8217; level possible\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.right-here.org\/letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An open letter<\/a>\u00a0to secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, Michael Gove, states: &#8216;We believe that empowering communities is essential to fulfilling your ambition of levelling up the country. And we want to propose a new, transformative piece of legislation \u2013 a Community Power Act \u2013 to achieve this. This legislation would fundamentally change where power lies in our country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Rather than politicians and officials in distant centres of power making decisions from afar, local people would have the powers they need to shape the areas where they live.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is led by seven people who have experience of building stronger communities and is supported by organisations such as Power to Change, New Local and Locality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Campaigners-call-for-new-law-to-empower-communities\/53354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners on the \u2018We\u2019re Right Here\u2019 campaign have called for a new Community Power Act to give communities a legal right to self-determination. image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31928,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions\/31928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}