How will a local council go about considering proposals under the Act?
Before submitting any proposals to the LGA as the national Selector, each council will need to go through several steps: • establish or identify a panel (or panels) of local people and work with them to develop proposals which would promote sustainability. This might be a newly established panel, or an existing local consultative panel or forum which meets the requirements of the Act • try and reach agreement with the panel, about the merits of a proposal and priorities between different proposals • consult with those parties affected if the proposal involves the transfer of a responsibility from one public body to another • ‘have regard’ to a list of matters set out in a Schedule to the Act, and which reflect issues of concern to organisations which supported the Act during its passage through Parliament (such as preserving local jobs, services and facilities, energy conservation, sustainable transport and food production) • make a formal decision (via the full council or council cabi
