Resources for responding to Planning White Paper 'consultation document'

Robert 'Three Homes' Jenrick's Planning White Paper looks clearly designed as a mechanism for ushering in what Prof. Guy Standing calls 'The Privatisation of the Commons' even while this Tory Government's response to the Tory Part being fined by the Electoral Commission is to set about the scrapping of that body.(1)

I believe that in response, we should be more pro-active and concerted in our actions as citizens, by getting better informed and responding en masse to what is designed as a whitewashing exercise by increasingly unrepresentative and over-centralised Big Government in league with global profiteers.

So while this Web Log page may be published on Sunday, 13 September 2020, I shall be adding to it over the course of the 'consultation period' that lasts until 29 October 2020:

The Campaign for Protection of Central England offers a 9 minute online video and the prospect of further assistance to people keen to respond to protect rural England against the further ravages of privatisation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6g6EORy4Rs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR09ggW0JZPwxr_Y-ogKngSalm8ajT3rZTDsjVi_LPp96rLcM8xLQzHK9rY


Meanwhile, Martin Francis of the Wembley Matters blog publishes model responses produced by Paul Burnham of Haringey Defend Council Housing.
https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2020/09/ideas-on-responding-to-governments.html

The Planning White Paper has also been criticised for its disregard of disabled people's accessible housing requirements.
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=planning+white+paper+accessible+housing


I look forward to publishing more related resources on this page.

Alan Wheatley





Footnotes

1: That is yet another 'public consultation' as the Electoral Reform Society points out

Our elections watchdog needs strengthening, not scrapping

but whereas the Tory Government says that the Electoral Commission "is answerable to no-one," Private Eye, 11-24 September 2020, p7 points out that a likely cue for that 'consultation' was Electoral Commission fining the Tory Party for breaching General Election spending limits.

Disability issues in GE2019

There is a hustings organised by Hereford Mencap in Hereford today.

Today! 3 December 4.30-6 at Life & Soul Kitchen, Unit 1, Three Elms Trading Estate, Hereford, HR4 9PU. Organised by Mencap.

Mencap is a charity addressing learning disability and learning difficulty issues. Suggested reading:

1. The Green Party 'Easy Read' manifesto was released at the same time as the 'mainstream' manifesto. It can be obtained via https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/Elections/EasyRead%20Manifesto%202019.pdf
2. Access to Citizens Income/Unconditional Basic Income has long been Green Party policy and is immensely different from terms and conditions of claiming Universal Credit. Universal Credit terms and conditions are made especially worse for adults with learning difficulties who cannot use computers, because Universal Credit is 'digital by default', as instanced at https://www.katebelgrave.com/2014/09/learning-and-literacy-difficulties-no-computer-but-do-your-jobsearch-online-yourself-thanks/ and https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/10/learningliteracy-difficulties-and-cant-use-the-online-universal-credit-erm-find-a-friend-to-help-says-dwp-so-much-for-support-this-is-dire/
3. In 2004 while volunteering in teaching [other] adults with learning difficulties very basic computing skills, I was commended for “endless patience with slower learners.” Yet there was no paid future in that for me, as Learning & Skills Council prioritsed  NVQ Levels 2 and 3 — with no extra investment overall — so as to implement the London 2012 Olympics agenda. I, and the trainees I supported, and their Guardian/Channel4 Teacher of the Year Award Winning paid teacher, were let down yet again! (“Learning & Skills Council [existed] to help make England better skilled and more competitive,” according to their website.)
4. In 2013, Prof. Peter Beresford wrote "Why welfare literacy is vital: lack of knowledge about state support services is putting the system at risk." That message is more important today, especially as Brexit would make our welfare state more vulnerable to outside interference. https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2013/jan/30/welfare-literacy-state-support

Green Party Basic Income would make life easier for adults with learning difficulties especially,
than Universal Credit.
More at https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/Elections/EasyRead%20Manifesto%202019.pdf

Accessible Housing

Wednesday 11 December, 7.30-9.30pm at Left Bank Hereford. Not an official hustings but a chance to discuss 'what should the council's core strategy say about housing?'. In association with the Herefordshire Centre for Community-led Housing.

Housing is an important issue in relation to disability. See, for example, https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=housing