Consultation News

Campaigners have called for the closure of an English speaking school to be halted after council chiefs admitted “an error” during a public consultation. Last Tuesday Wrexham council’s executive board voted to issue a statutory notice to close Ysgol Pontfadog. The school caters for 18 pupils and is one of three schools in the Ceiriog […]

Angus MP Kirstene Hair has backed Stracathro primary parents in their fight to keep the rural school open. Ahead of a crunch public meeting on Tuesday, Conservative Ms Hair has set herself on a potential collision course with party colleagues on the ruling Angus Council coalition by declaring the loss of the “exceptional” primary would

Police will not go on “fishing expeditions” when using new technology to access mobile phones, according to the union which represents 17,000 officers. Vice Chair of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) David Hamilton said police do not have the time to pry into people’s private lives because they “can hardly do the job at the moment”

Campaign against plan to remove chicks from their nests and rear them in captivity raises £25,000 in four days. A controversial plan to remove the chicks of endangered birds from their nests and rear them in captivity could be challenged in the high court after a crowdfunded campaign raised £25,000 in four days. Wildlife campaigner

The consultation on the proposed closure of Ketton Branch Surgery has been extended, following feedback from patients. Uppingham Surgery, which runs Ketton Branch Surgery, is proposing to close this site and centralise services at its main site in Uppingham. The consultation was scheduled to close on May 1, but after listening to the views of

The level of public response to a European Union pollinator initiative consultation is thought to be the fourth highest ever for an EU environmental consultation. In total 66,579 public replies from across the European Union were received. Scientists estimate 84% of EU crop species and 78% of wildflower species rely on insect pollination. The ecosystem

tCI commentary: Massive media coverage for the victim who is challenging the Mayor’s Office over the closure of police stations or police counters in the capital. Part of his case is that the consultation was inadequate, and the Institute described it as possibly the ‘worst consultation of 2017’. That was in July, there may have

tCI commentary: A proposal promising this amount of employment space has the potential to help the council make in-roads to those targets – but it also has the potential to divide the town, which is no stranger to controversial planning applications for greenbelt and agricultural land. Nor is it a stranger to sustained and strategic

MORE than 100 new homes will be built near Bridgwater’s motorway service station after permission was granted by Sedgemoor District Council. Persimmon Severn Valley, which is based in Portishead, applied to build 111 homes on land to the north of Dawes Farm, opposite the busy services near Junction 24 of the M5. The plans have attracted criticism