How is that power in the locality
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Over the past nine months Locality has, alongside Power to Change, supported the Commission on the Future of Localism, chaired by Lord Kerslake, to investigate what is required to reinvigorate local democracy and unleash the power of community. The culmination of this work is the Commission’s People Power report, which was published today and argues that we must radically reframe the way we think about power.
We felt compelled to set up the Commission because we were concerned that the welcome ambition and drive behind the 2011 Localism Act were in danger of waning. Following the introduction of the legislation, many of Locality’s members were the first to utilise the new powers it granted, such as the Community Rights, for the good of their communities.
However, the early ambition that underpinned the legislation hasn’t had the transformational effect many hoped it would. Indeed, throughout the Commission’s work, we have heard from communities who are unable to affect the change they know their neighbourhood needs because ‘real power resides elsewhere’.
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