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Macron in France explores The Politics of Consultation…

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President launches nationwide consultation. We can’t be absolutely certain that President Macron has been reading The Politics of Consultation, but someone clearly has. In a textbook response to a political crisis, the French President has challenged his turbulent population to share with him, their opinions through a nationwide consultation. Specifically, he wants to know their views […]

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Deadline fast approaching: PD rights allowing change of use could remove public consultation

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14 January was the deadline for responses to the Government’s consultation on its policy paper Planning reform: supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes, which proposes to increase the Permitted Development Rights allowing change of use, and in doing so removes public consultation from decisions affecting the regeneration of town centres.

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Is there a ‘magic moment’ for consultation?

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As managers and consultors across the globe will acknowledge – it is hard to please everyone during a public consultation. We frequently have questions from clients across sectors regarding that ‘magic moment’; having enough information on proposals so that consultees can give intelligent consideration, but not being so clued-up that you’ve already formed firm opinions

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‘Beware imitations!’ – coping with a phantom competitor

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Imagine being a fifteen-year established specialist body with a reasonably good reputation and waking up one day to find that an anonymous competitor has emerged. So, it copies your logo – changing one of our three-letter initialism (not acronym, note) but then cuts and paste our entire service portfolio – developed and perfected over years

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Councils finance bosses face Xmas mulling over cash consultation

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Merry Christmas everyone. Except that if you are an officer or an elected member worrying about the ever-worsening finances of local authorities in England, you have precisely 11 working days (exc Bank holidays) to respond to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s consultation on next year’s financial settlement. View this here. A four-week

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Three 2018 Court judgments that changed the Law of Consultation

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Public servants, be they local government officers, NHS Managers or departmental civil servants enter 2019 facing an even tighter set of legal rules affecting the Law of Consultation. Decision-makers similarly need to be conscious that judicial interventions to quash or postpone their actions are at an all-time high. In short, 2018 brought a range of

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