Great news — the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill, which includes reforms that could help protect community spaces like ours, has now moved into the House of Lords Committee Stage.

This is the part where:

🔹 meaningful changes are added

🔹 protections can be strengthened

🔹 voices like ours start to echo in policy shaping

Key proposals emerging so far include:

✔ widening the definition of community assets

✔ allowing previously closed venues to still be recognised as community value

✔ tackling harmful commercial lease practices

✔ giving local authorities clearer planning and wellbeing duties

This aligns strongly with what we have been campaigning for since March.

I will continue monitoring developments closely — thank you for standing with community spaces.

https://www.change.org/p/protect-no-limits-community-cafe-hub-from-closure