Consultation News

Health campaigners fear the imminent transfer of some acute services from the K&C indicates the downgrading of the hospital is already underway. They are holding a public meeting next week and a protest march in June, and have sought legal advice over the actions being taken by the health trust before a public consultation has […]

Alnwick Town councillors have condemned plans to demolish a sports centre in the town ‘without any consultation’. Last week’s council meeting was told that Northumberland County Council (NCC) planned to flatten the site of the Lindisfarne Middle School, including the separate sports hall, in the summer after the school has closed. Pupils will be moving

PLANS for an Oxfordshire ‘super council’ could be kicked further into the long grass if a general election is held this summer. Senior Conservative councillors yesterday said they had not expected movement on the controversial issue until after May 4’s local elections at the earliest. But Theresa May’s call for a national poll on June

Labour’s move to ban fracking in Scotland has been backed by nearly 90% of the public in a new consultation. Scottish Labour’s environment spokeswoman Claudia Beamish held the consultation to gauge support for her Member’s Bill to outlaw the controversial gas extraction technique across Scotland. A total of 1,067 people responded – 934 (87%) are

The European Union is launching a public consultation to find out what people fear most about the future of the Internet. A succession of surveys over the coming weeks will ask people for their views on everything from privacy and security to artificial intelligence, net neutrality, big data and the impact of the digital world

The government of the Falkland Islands has passed legislation legalising gay marriage. The Legislative Assembly for this small British overseas territory approved the bill by seven votes in favour to just one against. Not only does the new law grant gay and lesbian couples full marriage rights, it also introduces civil partnerships. Unlike in England

Pendle peer Tony Greaves is urging the government to accommodate bank-holidays in the 21-day statutory consultation period for planning applications. He told a House of Lords Debate:”In all the years I chaired committees with development control power, the greatest anger among members of the public came from their belief that they had not been consulted

Nicola Sturgeon is under pressure to reveal the findings of the government consultation on a second independence referendum before advancing her plans to hold it. The First Minister has promised to update MSPs on her “next steps” soon after Holyrood returns from Easter recess this week. However the SNP Government has yet to publish the

The Government has launched an investigation into Swindon Borough Council’s library cuts. In a letter published yesterday by Rob Wilson, Minister for Civil Society, it was confirmed that following four complaints made about the controversial decision to cut library provisions across the town, the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is to look at

Campaigners want a public consultation on the number of deer in the forest to be speeded up. The call comes after three deer were killed in road accidents in the space of ten days. The City of London Corporation launched a consultation on managing the deer population on January 25, shortly after a successful campaign