Consultation News

More than half of Moray’s public toilets will remain open following a backlash during budget consultations. The council originally wanted to shut all 32 locations across the region during their initial proposals. Now it has been decided that 20 of the sites will remain open, at least one in every community, after the authority bowed […]

Key challenges of the modern world – complexity, the pace of technological change, greater diversity, new attitudes and new forms of communication – make meaningful and functional democratic engagement much more likely at the local than the national level.  That’s not just my conclusion but also that of Bruce Katz, one of the world’s leading

Hundreds of parents and pupils have gathered to protest against plans that threaten 16 rural schools with closure. The rally, outside Northumberland County Hall in Morpeth, marked the end of a council consultation on a proposed shake-up of local education. Parents claim the move would “rip the heart out” of small communities and mean young

LEICESTERSHIRE County Council has apologised after it erected a street sign warning of road humps in town, before the whole legal notification process had even ended. A series of new road signs and bollards have been erected in Loughborough’s High Street and Woodgate in a bid to deter motorists using the roads as a rat

tCI Commentary: Many health consultations have become remarkably complex because of the geographical extent and the number of services that might possibly be included in one. This isn’t an excuse for conducting a consultation in a manner that members of the public cannot understand. It has always been part of the concept of good consultation

A proposed safe zone around the Marie Stopes abortion clinic is set to be the subject of a vote after Ealing Council received more than 3,600 responses during a public consultation. Cabinet members will decide on Tuesday (April 10) whether or not to implement a safe zone around the sexual health clinic , located in Ealing’s Mattock Lane, to prevent “vigils”

The government has revised its thinking on previously proposed size thresholds above which proposals for new reservoirs or dams would be considered as Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) to focus on schemes which output larger volumes of water. Last year, the government published a consultation seeking views on its proposals to widen the definition of

South Western Railway (SWR) has ‘reworked’ its proposed timetable for the end of this year, following concerns raised during its public consultation. The train operator launched a public consultation between September and December last year to gather feedback on its December 2018 timetable proposals. The consultation focused on west of Southampton to Weymouth services, and