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19 June 2012
Categories: Legislation
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Sustainable Communities Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1523)

The principal aim of the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 is to promote the sustainability of local communities...

Commencement date

26 July 2012
 

Summary

Legislative Background

The principal aim of the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 is to promote the sustainability of local communities, ie to encourage the improvement of the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of the authority’s area.

It imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to assist local authorities in promoting the sustainability of local communities in the ways specified in the Act.

What’s Changing?

The Regulations set out the procedures for dealing with proposals submitted by local authorities to the Secretary of State under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007.

They require local authorities to consult their communities on the Act’s proposals before submitting them to the Secretary of State for consideration.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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