18. Issues for Rural Communities
• Centralisation or just premature – significant aspects to be delivered
through secondary regulation
• Sustainable development – how to ensure growth and protect the
environment
• Strategic v. localism – between national and local government and local
government and communities
• Entrepreneurship v. inclusion – impact of articulate communities and
articulate voices within a community
• Empowering v. moribund parish councils – should they have a privileged
position in this?
• Cost, cost and more costs....... Who pays?