Consultation News

Rainford residents marched on the town centre on Saturday afternoon to deliver responses to a consultation on green belt housing plans for the village. The protestors set off from near the Golden Lion pub at approximately 1pm and walked to Victoria Square and the town hall, many carrying green balloons. Around 150 went on the march, with 400 gathering […]

Transport chiefs have admitted they don’t know how much cash would be saved by controversial plans to raise the age at which Scots qualify for a free bus pass. Last week The Sunday Post revealed SNP ministers were planning to increase the eligibility age for the popular concessionary travel scheme from 60. The move, which

The Big Healthcare Consultation is an exercise to brainwash the county into thinking less hospital care is more, according to Horton campaigners. Members of Keep the Horton General who attended Thursday’s public meeting – changed at the last minute to St Mary’s after a flood of complaint about a round-table discussion at the Town Hall

Anti-nuclear campaigners have accused Natural Resources Wales of carrying out an “insulting” consultation over designs for a new reactor on Anglesey. Hitachi-GE wants to build a new type of reactor at Wylfa, with a UK stakeholder meeting over the design held in Birmingham last month. Wylfa opponents say a similar meeting run by NRW is

NHS leaders’ first attempts to persuade the public to accept major cuts to hospital and health services were drowned out by boos tonight. A crowd of hundreds in Banbury jeered and hissed as a panel of six health bosses presented their proposals in public for the first time. Under the changes being proposed, hundreds of

A former Perth councillor claims members of a health body are making a “rod to break their back” by not consulting the public on controversial proposals which include closing beds for acute psychiatric patients. Joan McEwen, who is now a carer, said she does not understand why the Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care

Diggers at the site of the proposed A303 tunnel near Stonehenge have been “fact finding” and not starting construction, Highways England has said. The sight of the earth-moving machines weeks before the end of a public consultation on the scheme prompted some anti- tunnel campaigners to brand it a “done deal”. The vehicles were seen

Claims that there was a “lack of consultation” over plans to build 25 homes in place of a care facility have been rebuffed. Caldicot Town Council had made such comments in a written a letter of objections against Monmouthshire Housing Association’s (MHA) proposals. Members also said there wasn’t enough time given for the consultation during

Council leader Rishi Shori is urging health bosses to rethink their decision to close Bury and Prestwich Walk-in Centres. Cllr Shori is calling on NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group to allow for the maximum amount of time for a public consultation period, an extension of Bury Walk in Centre’s contract and for public meetings about