What exactly is the appetite for public consultations? And what is the civic-duty syndrome? We don’t often ask people if they want to be consulted. There are many reasons for this: There may be perfectly satisfactory, tried-and-tested machinery for taking certain kinds of decisions, with legitimately empowered decision-makers No history of public participation or involvement in […]
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Residents of Warrington look at least three different ways. To Manchester, Liverpool, and south to Cheshire. English Devolution obliges Councils to figure out whose organisation to join… and it is not always easy or obvious. The citizens of Chesterfield recently found themselves at the centre of a High Court challenge when Derbyshire CC objected to a
Devolution for Warrington – which way to turn? Read More »
If you are among the couple of thousand public engagement professionals in the UK, wrestling with a serious public consultation from time to time, you may well be intrigued – or even highly offended – to learn that the US/Australia –based IAP2 organisation describes consultation as ‘quite a low level of community engagement’ It gets
Beware a wholly inadequate definition of ‘consultation’ Read More »
Rhion Jones comments: “The Dubs amendment controversy goes to the High Court. Following the Home Secretary’s announcement that the number of unaccompanied refugee children will be lower than expected, attention switches to the extent of consultation with local authorities. As viewers of BBC Question Time might have seen last night, the Government argued that local authorities
Failure to consult Councils a key argument in today’s ‘Help Refugees’ Court challenge Read More »
Regular listeners to Radio 4’s TODAY programme on Tuesday morning may have heard an interview with Professor Helen Stokes Lampard of The Royal College of General Practitioners. She claimed that the UK’s standard ten minute slots for GP consultations is among the shortest in Europe, and that this affects the quality of the primary care
What do a GP consultation and a public consultation have in common? Read More »
Yesterday I spoke to 120 planning/development specialists at Waterfront’s annual Infrastructure Planning Forum. I used it to share the Institute’s analysis that there is a sea-change in the public’s view of participation and engagement. A world of post-truth, fake news and anti-establishment sentiment poses a real threat to evidence-based policy-making. So much so that we
Infrastructure Planners hear our analysis of post-truth public consultations Read More »
Public consultations and the numbers game For years, there has been an argument as to how much reliance to place on the statistical results of a pubic consultation. With respondent rates hovering at about 1% for most decisions affecting local public services, it has become customary to dismiss the breakdown of those in favour or
Winner takes all …  Read More »
Tuesday I spent at Gatwick’s Noise Management Board Public Meeting in a week that sees two massive aviation consultations launched – see here & here –  but it’s all about Heathrow’s 3rd runway being the Government’s preferred option for SE expansion and a complementary UK airspace policy review, with a special focus on noise and
Gatwick act on noise in a HUGE Airport Consultation week! Read More »
Are car drivers too scared to look under the bonnet? Those who found Donald Trump’s Inauguration speech last Friday distasteful have been dismissed as part of the political classes that have ostensibly lost touch with large parts of the electorate they are meant to serve. More accurately, what we may be witnessing is the tension
Public consultations – in defence of nuance! Read More »
Following the Brexit result from the European Referendum (EU) in June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) has been plunged into a period of uncertainty. Article 50, which Prime Minister Theresa May looks set to invoke at the end of March 2017, will trigger the two-year leave process from the EU, however, many concerns have been aired
Environmental Impact Assessments and Public Consultation in a Post-Brexit Climate Read More »
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