Attached is the 2- pages Bill which needs further support from MPs, forwarded message to campaigners, and the 1-page ballot day letter with easy instructions if you want to join the campaign in Sheffield.
This is a Bill to require government departments and public bodies to take certain steps and involve certain persons when they propose to end the provision of local services and facilities; to require companies that own public houses to take steps to enable direct delivery of beers to them; to require local planning authorities to take into consideration schemes for the retention of services or facilities before granting change of use applications; and for connected purposes.
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Subject: Urgent Local Works Campign Update - Local Services and Facilities Bill
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:05:55 -0000
From: Stephen Shaw
To:
CC:
Dear Local Works Supporter
LOCAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES BILL NEWS
I have been on the phone to a journalist from the Independent who quietly informed me that a number of MPs who were drawn in the ballot last Tuesday are seriously considering taking up our bill!
This has been because they have received so many requests from individuals just like yourselves, so to all who have already written well done and thankyou very much.
But now we must redouble our efforts in order to have the best chance of securing the bill in Parliament this session. So please, if you have not already, write to the MPs in the ballot (I have attached the initial letter we sent you with all the details). If you have already written please ask friends, family, colleagues etc (the postman, the milkman, your hairdresser) and anyone else you can to please write to the MPs as well. If you are a constituent of an MP on the list then you writing would be /very /effective.
Attached is the bill and the original letter you were sent which has the 20 MPs on. You can forward this to your friends and contacts.
Best wishes and happy Christmas campaigning!
Steve
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Stephen Shaw
Local Works Campaign