General Discussion
Localism
Passing the buck- and a lot of the money will no longer be available as Pickles has just cut local government grants massively.
Every parish and district council doing its own thing? Recipe for chaos.
Look what devolution did for prescription charges and university tuition fees!
Postcode lottery going mad.
Localism is a recipe for higher council taxes, further nepitism, corruption and incompetence.
Most local councils couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
The Localism Bill was introduced to House of Commons on 13 December 2010. The Bill is seen as integral to the Coalition’s “localism” and “Big Society” agendas. It sets out measures to devolve more powers to councils and neighbourhoods and also to enable local communities to have greater control over local decisions like planning.
The Bill consists of 405 pages, 208 clauses and 24 schedules and so will clearly take some time to analyse and digest. Much of the detail and implementation of the Bill will be taken forward through regulations, order making powers, duties, statutory guidance and requirements on local authorities. Consequently, we are still expecting a lot more detail to emerge on the measures included in the Bill as it makes its way through the parliamentary process.
So yep a total waste of time.