Local Works public meeting: Ghost Town Britain and the Sustainable Communities Bill
Venue: East Wing of the Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2GR (map)
Date: 18 May 2006, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
In the last decade Britain has lost a fifth of its Post Office network, a quarter of its independent grocery stores and a quarter of its bank branches. More traffic, more food miles and more climate change emissions as well as less community activity and engagement - community decline.
A public meeting is to be held in Brighton and Hove to discuss unsustainable communities and "Ghost Town Britain" and a proposed solution - the Sustainable Communities Bill. This proposed Bill will give more powers to local people to make their own decisions on how to create thriving and sustainable local communities, rather than be subject to top down policy from distant civil servants in London.
Speakers:
Ron Bailey (Local Works Campaign Organiser)
Keith Taylor (Green Party Principal Speaker)
David Lepper MP (MP for Brighton Pavilion)
Mike Weatherly (Conservative Candidate for Brighton Pavilion) to be announced
Hazel Thorpe (Liberal Democrat Candidate for Brighton Pavilion) to be announced
