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Schedule | |
Section 1 | |
Indicators | |
1 The indicators referred to in section 1(2) are— | |
(a) the provision of local services, | |
(b) the extent to which the volume and value of goods and services that | 5 |
are— | |
(i) offered for sale; or | |
(ii) procured by public bodies | |
are grown or produced within 30 miles of their place of sale or of the | |
boundary of the public body, | 10 |
(c) the rate of increase in the growth and marketing of organic forms of | |
food production and the local food economy, | |
(d) the number of local jobs, | |
(e) the quantity of energy supplies which are produced from sustainable | |
sources within a 50 mile radius of the region in which they are | 15 |
consumed, | |
(f) measures taken to reduce the level of road traffic including, but not | |
restricted to, local public transport provision and measures to | |
decrease the amount of product miles, | |
(g) the increase in social inclusion, including an increase in involvement | 20 |
in local democracy, | |
(h) measures to increase mutual aid and other community projects, | |
(i) measures designed to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and | |
(j) measures designed to increase community health and well being. | |
2 In this Schedule the following terms shall have the following meanings— | 25 |
“local services” includes but is not restricted to retail outlets, public | |
houses, banks, health facilities, including hospitals and pharmacies, | |
social housing, post offices, schools, public eating places, leisure | |
facilities and open spaces; | |
“local food economy” means a system of producing, processing and | 30 |
trading primarily organic forms of food production, where the | |
activity is largely contained in the area or region where the foodwas | |
produced; | |
“local jobs” mean— | |
(a) jobs in companies or organisations that in the opinion of the | 35 |
Appropriate Authority will spend a significant proportion of | |
their turnover in the locality of the place of operation; and | |
(b) jobs which are held by people living within 30 miles of that | |
job; | |
“mutual aid” means actions or initiatives by people in the community | 40 |
to improve services or provisions for themselves and other persons | |
in the community; | |
“product miles” means the total distance produce is transported from | |
the place of growth or production to the place of consumption; | |
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“social inclusion” means the opportunity for all people resident in any | |
area to play an equal role in the economic, social and civic life of the | |
area; | |
“local democracy” means the ability to participate in, by means of | |
voting at elections or otherwise, decision-making that is as local as | 5 |
practicable to people’s place of residence; and | |
“community health and well-being” means the degree to which | |
persons resident in an area identify with that area and receive an | |
increased quality of life as a result of the nature and the environment | |
of the area. | 10 |
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