I’ve opened the shiny present in the capacious Christmas sack of the Localism Act marked ‘new rights and powers for local communities’, and had a horrid disappointment. It rattled enticingly, but what has fallen out of it strikes me as having greatly more potential to disempower than to empower. The year’s labour of the Elves over the Bill has, I fear, been wasted. It’s time to move on.
Empowerment Works is a movement of people and organisations committed to building support for community empowerment in the South West and beyond. For more information please visit the Empowering Communities website.
