• Projects await fate as RDA funding axe falls
  on Wednesday 30th June, 2010

• Rural commission to be axed
  on Tuesday 29th June, 2010

• Transition Towns explore CLT model
  on Tuesday 29th June, 2010

• New plans will allow communities to bypass planning
  on Tuesday 29th June, 2010

• ‘Scorched earth’ funding cuts fail Compact compliance
  on Friday 25th June, 2010

• Red tape hampering access to free school meals
  on Friday 25th June, 2010

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  ‘Florrie’ to be restored as community hub
  28th June by Clare Goff

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  Housing development finds home in Bury
  25th June by Jill Theobald

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  Keren Suchecki on 3rd June 2010

  Pickles, with his track record of taking a hatchet to public spending, is in the right place... I predict he will want to set an example to other departments and will not take up the option to defer cuts, but will implement them with minimum fuss, minimum delay.

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  Tony Hawkhead on 3rd June 2010

  For this to mark a real new start, local and central government need to think carefully about how they engage people and what their needs are. Like political parties, residents need to feel they are being listened to and that they can effect real change.

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  Julian Dobson on 3rd June 2010

  Let’s be clear that there’s an opportunity here. It’s a chance to put community activism and community development on the agenda in a way that the previous government, for all its protestations and strategies, signally failed to do.

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