Consultation News

Representatives from Chichester A27 – No Option is Still an Option made their presence known to MP Andrew Tyrie, parish and district councillors at a closed meeting held at Chichester District Council offices. At the peaceful and friendly protest on Friday, January 20, the representatives called for transparency, a consultation re-run of all seven options

Proposals to expand a Sutton Coldfield primary school have been criticised by an angry parent who slammed the consultation process as ‘unnecessary’ and believes if the school gets the go ahead it will ‘put lives at risk’. Dad Mike Hartwell has questioned the need to double the size of Moor Hall Primary School in Rowallan Road,

An alternative to controversial plans to axe all wardens at Nuneaton and Bedworth’s sheltered complexes was proposed – but councillors decided against it. On what is known as pink paper, which cannot be seen by the press or public, were other options to the current proposal to cut all scheme managers in favour of new

Campaigners against a third runway at Heathrow are facing Government bid to block their legal challenge getting off the ground. A coalition of local councils, including Hillingdon, Richmond, Wandsworth and Windsor and Maidenhead, together with Greenpeace UK and a Hillingdon resident, have brought a judicial review at London’s High Court. It claims that the Government’s

A protest has been staged as union leaders attempt to protect some of the 800 jobs which are under threat at the former Calderstones Hospital site. Staff are anxious that NHS England is trying to push through proposals to remove all medical services from the location, near Whalley, after 102 years. As NHS officials met

Proposals to move services from a hospital that has already seen its maternity unit downgraded have been set out by Oxfordshire health bosses. A consultation has been launched to tackle a predicted funding gap in the county’s NHS of £200m by 2020-21. Options include moving stroke services and some critical care patients from the Horton

A campaign group has welcomed the council’s decision to reject plans for the NHS which they claim are the government’s way of saving £22billion. Save Our NHS Waltham Forest has publicly campaigned against Sustainability and Transformation since last year. The group claims the STPs are not transparent and are being rushed through by the government.