Engaging with stakeholders during planning processes has historically been limited to delivering a consultation tick in the box rather than a fundamental and valuable part of the development process, and for some developers this remains the case. However, engaging stakeholders at the earliest stages of a development is more important than ever before, especially with […]
Four important steps to ensure a responsible response. It’s called a Letter before claim or sometimes a Letter before action and will normally find its way to your in-house legal team or an external firm of solicitors. Technically it will not be challenging the consultation – but a decision taken following a consultation. In all
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Time to take stock on the challenge of integrating health and social care Three months ago, just as everyone enjoyed the uncharacteristic heatwave, the National Audit Office (NAO) published a little-noticed Report called the health and social care interface. Sir Amyas Morse, the Auditor General, admits that some might find it ‘discouraging’. It certainly turns
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Since writing The Politics of Consultation, Elizabeth Gammell and I have been struck by readers’ reactions to the many stories we recount, and the growing realisation that so many consultations are affected by political interventions – great and small. The question that mostly arises is to what extent are these factors foreseeable? Is it possible
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From the Institute Archives – this is based upon Tuesday Topic 57, published in April 2006 There’s a real debate about the role that consultation plays in achieving significant social or political change. Some say that going to consultation is a sure-fire way to slow down progress. Produce a radical idea that challenges existing vested
Two news stories in this week’s newsletter illustrate how upset communities can become when they dislike proposals affecting their local area. In South Shields, the row is about plans to close a poorly-performing school of 550 pupils, and where the Council is proposing a very quick (6 weeks) consultation followed by only two weeks for
What causes community anger? Read More »
A preliminary analysis of R (ex parte Hinsull) v NHS Dorset CCG Campaigners who challenged the NHS plan to centralise and specialise the adjacent hospitals in Bournemouth and Poole lost their case this week. Sir Stephen Silber, sitting as a High Court Judge dismissed all the grounds for complaint and, in respect of the disputed
Lawyers will probably spend much time and treasure crawling all over the High Court judgment a month ago in the case affecting cuts in Special Educational needs (SEN) provision by Bristol City Council. But for hundreds of Councils in England, there is no time to absorb legal technicalities; they need to know very quickly what
Bristol judgment clarifies Councils’ Budget consultation duties. Or does it? Read More »
The short answer is that no-one has worried… until now. There is little or no significant literature on the theory of consultation, let alone how it works in practice. References to Sherry Arnstein’s work in the US half a century ago focused on her labelling it “tokenistic”, and there is no shortage of critics who
Public consultation is everywhere: so, should we worry about the politics? Read More »
Introducing the Leggatt/Carr considerations For years, consultors have known that in their documentation, they must publish enough information so that consultees know enough to give the proposals ‘intelligent consideration’. It has always been a fine judgement. Say too much and you get pilloried for too much information. Say too little and you risk losing a
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