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Council seeks views on how it should involve local people in the planning process during and after lockdown

Published: Tuesday, 23rd March 2021 Oxford City Council will begin public consultation this week over the way it involves local people in the planning process. The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) sets out the council’s approach for informing, consulting and involving people in planning decisions. The SCI applies when the council prepares and consults on […]

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Proposals on the future of Somerset local government criticised for “lack of detail and evidence”

Rival campaigns to shake up local government in Somerset have locked horns over a new report. The Government is currently consulting over proposals to replace the five existing Somerset councils with either a single unitary authority (dubbed One Somerset) or two unitaries (called Stronger Somerset). A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has criticised the Stronger

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Council’s controversial 24-hour bus lane consultation criticised as “poor and flawed” and a “complete joke”

The enforcement camera on the controversial new 24-hour bus lane in Northampton may be moved after councillors criticised their own party and labelled the scheme a “cash cow.” The new 24-hour bus lane runs from the Audi Dealership, in Weedon Road, all the way to the railway station, which is about a 1.4 mile stretch

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Benarty and Lochgelly community councils’ boundary dispute settled

A BOUNDARY change between Benarty and Lochgelly that was agreed in 2019 will remain in place after a line was drawn under the “controversial” issue at Fife Council’s meeting. The neighbouring community councils fell out over the border dispute, with both laying claim to Glencraig, but a proposed review was narrowly rejected by councillors 30

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Councillor sparks controversy after branding opponents of plans for a new school ‘NIMBYs’

A councillor sparked controversy after branding opponents of plans for a new school ‘NIMBYs’. The ‘outrageous’ remark was made by Coun Faisal Rana at a meeting of Rochdale council’s planning committee, where full planning permission was granted for a 900-place secondary school in Middleton. Dubbed the Edgar Wood Academy, it will be built on land

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Residents criticise lack of engagement in council’s Saughtonhall parking consultation

A former Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, Norman Irons and his wife, Anne, claim that the council consultation on introducing parking charges in Saughtonhall has excluded them and hundreds of others in the area. The consultation has largely been run online which means that many elderly residents such as Dr and Mrs Irons

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Stoke-on-Trent’s political map set to be redrawn – for second time in a decade

tCI Comment: Boundary changes have a long and relatively complicated set of rules about how they must be consulted upon. Last year, we saw the Northern Irish case of Re Patrick Lynch, in which the claimant challenged the decision of the NI Boundary Commission to refuse to consider major proposed changes at a second-stage consultation.

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‘The new policing bill will deepen racial inequality,’ claim groups in open letter to prime minister Boris Johnson

“The government has produced the Bill without consulting Black, Asian and minority ethnic people or the organisations representing them,” says the Criminal Justice Alliance Dear Prime Minister, We are a group of individuals and organisations deeply concerned that the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will further entrench racial inequality in the criminal justice

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Coventry ‘City of Culture’ takes steps to make public transport more disability-friendly

Steps have been taken to make public transport more accessible in Coventry in the West Midlands over the coming months after it launched a new Transport Charter aimed at improving and aiding the experience of people with disabilities using public transport in the city. Coventry City Council put together the Charter after setting up the

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