Consultation News

A council has pledged support to communities fighting any possible cuts to healthcare beds in north Norfolk. Last week North Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (NNCCG) served notice to Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) on the beds it commissions at Benjamin Court in Roughton Road, Cromer and Cranmer House in Norwich Road, Fakenham. […]

A guide to help residents through the maze of confusing information in the Oxfordshire Transformation Plan (OTP) has been released this week. The Keep the Horton General (KTHG) Consultation Guide contains five papers on the issues at stake, a glossary and a short-format letter based on evidence that people can use for their own information

RSPB, ClientEarth and FoE launch judicial review of Ministry of Justice’s change to costs cap already criticised by UN and peers Legal challenges to government air pollution standards or to the expansion of Heathrow airport have become too risky financially to pursue under new court regulations, environmental groups are warning. Changes to cost protection orders

Frustrated parents have said the way Hampshire County Council has dealt with their concerns regarding the potential closure of a Basingstoke secondary school is “appalling”. Parents who attended the third and final public consultation session about the proposed amalgamation of Fort Hill Community School and Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College (CBEC) at the Westside Community

Conservative town hall chiefs today accused the Government of “misleading” up to three million people over the impact of a third runway at Heathrow. The leaders of Wandsworth, Richmond, Hillingdon and even  Theresa May’s Windsor and Maidenhead council tore into the Department for Transport over a consultation leaflet sent to around 1.5 million households and businesses,

Campaigners hoping to save the children’s heart unit at Glenfield Hospital have hit out at plans for a consultation meeting in a room with capacity for 120 people. Since the announcement by NHS England that the unit should shut there has been a huge campaign, with patients and former patients among the thousands calling for

Save Bath Library campaigners are celebrating after Bath and North East Somerset Council has promised further consultations on the moving of Bath Central Library from the Podium to Manvers Street. This follows a protest outside the Guildhall before last week’s budget meeting, where campaigners reportedly presented the Council with a pre-litigation letter over the way

Too many hospital services are “unsafe” and politicians must not “collude” to keep them open because they fear controversy over closures, a leading think tank has said. NHS authorities are drawing up radical plans to reorganise services in a bid to save £22bn and cope with rising demand from an ageing population. Draft plans suggest