Questions and follow up from 'Taking Power at a local Level' Jan 21st webinar.

A key question for me is which local authority areas are ripe for Flatpack Democracy. Does it work better in some situations more than others eg village/town/city, current political landscape etc?

Sure does Mr T... come to the webinar and we can discuss! And if the answer doesn't emerge we can return to here!

From Jason Leman to Everyone: (07:27 pm on webinar)

 Residents for Uttlesford took over their District Council last year, and a couple of others... Epsom and Ewell Borough Council has been run by local Housing Associations for about eighty years. So it can be done - just (!) a bigger challenge

From Jason Leman to Everyone: (08:39 pm webinar)

One of the things It's Our City Sheffield (https://www.itsoursheffield.co.uk/) is pushing for is making the Council more democratic - which you can do through calling for a governance referendum. We've got a referendum this May - and one of the things pushing within that is to get more local parish / community councils across the city. We're still pretty bound by the mood of the ruling political party though...

@Peter Macfadyen and @Paul Thistlethwaite will this zoom webinar be recorded and put out, unfortunately myself and some others that would like to attend, can't as we are hosting a climate cafe this evening

Yes we can record :)

thank you , when done the recording can you please share on this thread for us?

Paul Thistlethwaite · 7 hours ago

Here is the recording from last night. It is unedited so you can simply skip through the 30 min breakout part. https://zoom.us/rec/play/tJIoI7ipqD83E4fA4gSDVvJ_W9TvKaus1iBPrKAKzU6xWyYBNFSjZrQaYeYaXKvL4idCmuYFns1qaHAB?continueMode=true

@Peter Macfadyen can you edit your original message and put this link in it?

thank you @Peter Macfadyen and @Paul Thistlethwaite