Local connection keeping personal (6)
I believe the answer is:
townie
'local' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'connection keeping personal' is the wordplay.
'connection' becomes 'tie' (tie is a kind of connection).
'keeping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'personal' becomes 'own' (eg one's own possessions are personal possessions).
'tie' going around 'own' is 'TOWNIE'.
(Other definitions for townie that I've seen before include "city type" , "citizen" , "No countryman" , "knows little of the country?" , "Inhabitant of an urban area" .)