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
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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
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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
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On Thursday the House of Commons’ Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee issued a first report on The future of the Planning System in England. This follows the 2020 Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future which proposed some radical changes to the planning system. In March this year, while researching my ebook People in
How much do you think about the data the NHS holds on you? It’s some of the most personal data that any individual has- details about our illnesses, our health and wellbeing, and what treatments we have received over our lifetimes. There has been something of a furore this week over the implementation of a
The NHS data store delay- would more consultation have helped? Read More »
Eyes are turning this week to the beautiful county of Cornwall where the G7 are gathering to discuss current global affairs- if they can get off the topic of Brexit that is! But whilst the PM has been flying 250 miles to talk about how important it is that we are more green (can’t see
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Does a recent book on community engagement provide a fair reflection? Several aspects of Becky Hirst’s recent book, For the love of community engagement make it a worthwhile contribution to the literature. There is the consummate storytelling. There are great insights into different causes and diverse communities. There are helpful terms and language that can
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Westminster is in recess, and there’s nothing significant from Wales or Northern Ireland, but Scotland may just have produced us a little goldmine to discuss today. It came in a debate on education, a topic where we have seen a lot of discussion in the past year or so- mostly over replacement for exams. In
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