Consultation News

Shropshire Council will provide an extra £39,500 towards youth activities after hundreds of negative responses were given during a public consultation. The authority’s cabinet today gave the green light to revised funding plans, which will see the loss of more than £60,000 in funding overall. The original plan was to reduce the budget by nearly

tCI commentary: Within days of near neighbour Herts Valley CCG losing a judicial review because it failed to involve local Councillors in a closure decision, we have something similar in West Essex. If this news story is true, Robert Halfron MP has a strong case to question the closure of a GP Surgery in Harlow

THE FIGHT to save local police stations across the region, including Solihull’s, stepped up a gear this week. West Midlands MPs have joined forces against the ‘unnecessary action’. Solihull MP Julian Knight says he has rallied Conservative MPs to oppose plans by Labour’s Police and Crime Commissioner, David Jamieson, to slash community police stations. Plans

Industry groups have reacted with disappointment to Defra’s long-awaited consultation on the future of farming policy. The paper contains a number of proposals to be consulted on before the Agriculture Bill is published later in the year, with May 8 2019 the deadline for responses. Though the consultation has only just been published, farming groups

Unpopular roadworks which would have completely closed the A1 in Northumberland have been postponed. A four-mile stretch between Wandylaw and Warenford was to be shut for resurfacing work in both directions for 17 days from next Friday. Northumberland County Council wanted the work halted, saying local consultation had been “last minute”. Following a public meeting,

The experimental two-week half-term school holidays being trialled by Brighton and Hove City Council will be scrapped – but not until next year. Almost 4,500 people responded to a survey which found that most parents and staff wanted to revert to the existing pattern of school holidays, the council said. A decision to switch back

Campaigners opposed to the controversial high speed rail link say they have been misled by HS2 management. The Department of Transport (DfT) has confirmed that it has purchased 17 properties along the proposed £56billion route, including some in Wakefield. And the admission came just days after claims were made that HS2 officials had told a

Today’s launch of a public consultation on a planned British nuclear power station less than 250km from the Irish coast is welcome but long overdue, leading environmental groups have said. The Irish Transboundary Environmental Public Consultation on the Hinkley Point C power plant will run until 17 April 2018, with advertisements published this morning in