The main points of the Real Power for Communities campaign are:
- to ensure that the three new community rights (around challenging the delivery of local services, bidding for assets of community value and granting permission for certain kinds of local development) are used to benefit local people and community groups rather than big business.
- to ensure that the Act puts power in the hands of local communities, working with local charities, voluntary organisations, social enterprises and community groups, and that decentralisation does not stop at local government.
- to ensure that the implementation of the Act addresses inequality so that these powers are made available to disadvantaged communities, not just those who are already well-resourced and influential.
- to ensure that service users are protected against the failure of services that become the object of the Right to Challenge. Deregulation alone is not a guarantee of improved choice and services for local communities.