Issue - meetings

Councillor Patel submits a report proposing a response to a petition with 31 signatures submitted to the Council meeting on 30 November by Councillor Garner relating to the Charter of Simon de Montfort granted to the burgesses of Leicester around 1231.  The Cabinet is asked to recommend to Council that it renounce the sentiments and prejudices within and any exercise of the Charter of Simon de Montfort.

Councillor Patel submitted a report proposing a response to a petition with 31 signatures submitted to the Council meeting on 30 November 2000 by Councillor Garner and which related to the Charter of Simon de Montfort granted to the Burgesses of Leicester around 1231.  It was noted that the petitioners were asking the City Council to formally revoke the Charter; however such action was not possible as the Charter was not the Council's to revoke.  However the sentiments contained within the Charter were clearly an abhorrence and totally at variance with the celebration of diversity which was one of the most prominent features of the City as it entered the 21^st century.  It was therefore recommended that the Council renounce and repudiate the sentiments and prejudices which led to the grant of and any exercise of the Charter.

RESOLVED:

that the City Council be asked to renounce and repudiate the sentiments and prejudices which led to the grant and any exercise of the Charter of Simon de Montfort c1231.