Locality Manifesto

Locality UK call on the next government to support a community-powered economy, strengthen preventative public services, and invest in ‘places and spaces for everyone.’

Locality UK outline ‘five big reforms to inspire a community power revolution’. The five reforms below have been taken directly from Locality UK’s manifesto:

1. Introduce a Community Power Act, to create three new community rights – to buy assets of community value, to shape public services, and to control local investment. And to create Community Covenants, new power sharing arrangements between councils and local communities.

2. Inspire a step change in community ownership, through a new, cross-government National Community Ownership Strategy that boosts community ownership and capacity from energy to housing to health.

3. Put communities in charge of local economic development, giving residents more control over local regeneration spending and radically devolving employment and skills support to the hyper-local level.

4. Make collaboration – not competition the guiding principle of public services, with bold reform of commissioning and shifting budgets to community-led prevention.

5. Community-led housing and planning, giving communities a tangible stake in their neighbourhoods by supporting the growth of community-led housing and spreading the use of neighbourhood planning.

Read the Locality UK manifesto: https://locality.org.uk/locality-manifesto