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2021, Stroud District Council press release - 'Community Representatives needed for Review Panel'
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The text of the press release ran as follows:
Stroud District Council is set to review street and building names, statues and architectural features to ensure they represent the community’s values – and we want to recruit two community representatives to help with this.
As part of its response to issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement last year, the Council committed to undertake a review and community consultation of any street and building names, statues and architectural features to ensure they are representative of local peoples’ values, the unique history and heritage of Stroud district, and those of an inclusive Council.
The Council will start this consultation in May and is setting up a Review Panel to analyse responses and put forward any appropriate recommendations.
The Panel will consist of members of the Council’s Equality Working Group and external representatives. We also want to make sure that the views of our communities are included on the Review Panel, so we are recruiting two Community Representatives.
The consultation will work within new laws announced by Government in January which say all historic statues, plaques and other monuments will now require full planning permission to remove, ensuring due process and local consultation in every case, and that the law will make clear that historic monuments should be retained and explained ... - carried out by | réalisée par
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- 26 February 2021
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- Stroud District Council, 'Community Representatives needed for Review Panel', 26 February 2021