Friday is the closing date for a rather important consultation on a proposed statutory duty for public spaces and venues to protect the public from the risks of terrorism following the Manchester Arena bombing. Few people challenge the underlying motives and, if enacted, it will become known as Martyn’s law after Martyn Murray who lost […]
Serious flaws in the Protect Duty consultation Read More »
One of the biggest flaws with the European Union, that even the most die-hard fan of the organisation would probably admit, is that there is a significant disconnect between it and the citizens living under its purview. It was arguably one of the big reasons that five years ago this week, the British public voted
Is Europe’s biggest attempt to engage with citizens doomed to failure? Read More »
Another week, another scandal breaking too late for me to try and find a consultation angle. Ah well, can’t have everything. So, outside the lurid details, what else has been going on? Well for, I think, the first time, we have the same issue being represented across two legislatures… Westminster A relatively quiet consultation week
The Week in Parliament Read More »
What a week! We’ve seen an astonishing byelection result (which we’ve written about here), some potentially very serious leadership failures in the DUP in Northern Ireland, and today England faces Scotland in the Euros. Hmm… one of these things is not like the others… Westminster Everyone loves a little furry animal. The ones with the
The Week in Parliament Read More »
It seems remarkably rare for us to get a genuine surprise in politics these days but yesterday’s byelection to deliver a new parliamentary representative for the people of Amersham and Chesham has done wonders. The byelection was called after the death of the incumbent Tory MP, Cheryl Gillen, who had held the seat since 1992
The Chesham and Amersham byelection- NIMBY-ism is back and consultors should be alert Read More »
All local planning authorities in England are required by law to have a local plan to set local planning policies in their area. These documents are applied when deciding on planning applications. Much of the consultation related activity we see around local plans revolves around their assembly, and we have seen multiple disputes and challenges
It is five years since the 2016 Referendum Five years should be long enough to learn some of the lessons of what happened on 23 June, 2016 – even if the pandemic and all else has clouded the issues, and much else is still to emerge. ‘Leave’ voters now know that Brexit wasn’t quite as
The importance of being heard Read More »
After recent unfortunate (if not entirely unexpected) performances in recent elections, the Labour leader Keir Starmer not only conducted a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet, but also commissioned a policy review to lay the foundations of what will become the next Labour manifesto, when the time comes. Although we don’t often comment on internal political
Stronger together? Labour’s lessons from the Pandemic Read More »
We have written multiple times about the Government’s major immigration reform consultation, firstly in a previous Week in Parliament where we did a little dissection of it raising significant concerns over the process and then in a wider piece questioning whether there might be problems in the Home Office’s consultation culture. We criticised the consultation
Government immigration reform consultation challenged Read More »
Articles, comment and advice on consultation for the planning and development sector have focused extensively on the methodologies used (specifically striking a balance between online and offline) and the potential to reach wide-ranging stakeholders (including the ‘seldom heard’). These subjects have been covered to the extent that, as recent research has found, the actual essence
Publication of People in Planning: Considering Consultation Content Read More »
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