Consultation News

A council chief has come under fire after he announced he will not be attending public meetings set up to discuss the closure of children’s centres – a move branded “disrespectful” by campaigners. Cabinet member for children’s services at Bucks County Council, Warren Whyte, said he will only be attending the public consultation in his

It is consulting on updates to the 2007 Licensing (Procedure) Scotland Regulations, with a particular focus on potential changes to the public notification process. Improving public notification “could help with encouraging people to have their say on licensing matters”, the Scottish Government said. “Local communities have an important voice in local licensing decisions,” the government said.

TCI Commentary: Over the years, Citizens’ Assemblies have had a mixed press, but this is one of the more up-beat accounts of their effectiveness. It suggests that maybe they are most effective on those issues that politicians are prone to duck. Many of them are called ‘wicked issues’. And this will lead to a Referendum.

COUNCIL bosses have backed down over proposed cuts to fire service cover after a successful public campaign amid “fierce response” to changes. Cumbria County Council’s Labour-Lib Dem cabinet were due to make a final decision in February on proposals to scrap the evening full-time cover in Ulverston between the hours of 8pm and 8am. Under the changes,

TCI Commentary: The latest developments in the long-running saga of Calderdale’s reconfiguration of Hospital services illustrates why everyone gets so confused. Following last year’s public consultation on plans to centralise A & E services at the hospital in Halifax, there has been a vocal campaign to reverse the decision and support the alternative option of

RAIL Freight Group chairman Lord Berkeley has blasted the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), claiming the regulator is trying to manipulate the freight market with its consultation on increasing network access charges for trains carrying biomass fuel. The ORR launched a consultation last year asking for views on its plans to introduce new charges

There is local concern in Bundoran about a “blank no bathing” recommendation made recently for Tullan Strand, a local councillor has claimed. Cllr Barry O’Neill said it would appear that a recommendation from coroner Dr. Denis McCauley, following an inquest into the death of Cpl Gavin Carey at Tullan Strand in July 2016, has been

RESIDENTS have been given an extra seven weeks to have their say over the future of Somerset libraries. Somerset County Council is consulting on proposals which could result in closure for 15 of 34 libraries unless ‘community involvement’ is found to keep them running. The closing date for the consultation has been extended from Sunday,