Sentence examples for localism from inspiring English sources

Sisters Uncut are campaigning specifically to stop cuts to domestic violence centres With the localism bill, local councils have even less money in their budgets to pay for services and given that domestic violence services are not given statutory status there is no duty for them to continue funding them".

It could be a case study for localism: under local management, all that revenue would stay in Wendover Woods.

Lastly, there will be a new localism, thanks to an internet full of local differences that are not confined to particular places.

Its most successful reform involves freeing schools from local-authority control.But while top-down localism is failing, bottom-up localism is flourishing.

Ami Beeton is leadership and localism advisor at the Local Government Association and manages the NGDP.

In the meantime, here's Pickles' press release promising "a new era of people power", the written ministerial statement on the localism bill (via LGIU blog), CLG's"essential guide" to the bill, and its "six steps to return power to the people" list.

Without localism and a sense of identity, what will be left of representative democracy?

Back in 2010, Cameron, who preaches localism more than he practises it, tried to "reform" the '22 by allowing ministers to attend (but not vote) – as the PLP allows – which prompted a backlash.

In the blue corner is the coalition's localism agenda, which promised to make the planning system more democratic and introduced neighbourhood plans to allow communities a say in where new houses and businesses should go.

Localism sounds fine in principle but the reality is that the well-off and the well-housed are using it to resist, rather than promote, the development of new homes.

Such localism as he professes has been forced on him by Europe's new wave of centrifugal politics.