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Urgent update on Clause 57
A time-sensitive update from It's Our City! about the planned local governance changes at Clause 57 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. It is very likely indeed that the Public Bill Committee examining the Bill line by line at 'committee stage'...
Write to your MP!
TAKE ACTION - SPEAK UP NOW! THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF SHEFFIELD'S REFERENDUM. We are now (Autumn 2025) running a short letter-writing campaign. MPs are discussing the government's Bill now, so please write now! Write to your MP! Copy our template...
Public statement on the Government announcement that they intend to overturn the result of Sheffield’s referendum
This week the government has announced it intends to abolish the committee system for local councils in England. The government is set to force councils to operate under the top down, ‘strong leader’ (Leader and Cabinet) system. This system led to the disastrous...