Consultation News

A CONTROVERSIAL new combined bus and cycle lane on the main A38 from Northfield to Birmingham city centre is being reviewed after causing uproar among local residents. Campaigner Gemma Cartwright MBE and Coun Julie Johnson have submitted a petition signed by more than 1,000 people calling for it to be scrapped. On Wednesday the document

MEMBERS of Warminster Town Council have voted unanimously to consult local people on the council’s draft Climate Change Strategy. The council is working towards the adoption of a climate change strategy after setting out its emergency climate change declaration in line with many other town councils. The decision was made at the town council’s virtual

Up to 1,000 people attended an open-air meeting in Gyle Park last month where transport convener Lesley Mancinnes was booed and jeered as she defended proposed road closures and restrictions designed to prevent rat-running through residential streets. She promised to look again at the scheme and a revised set of measures will now be discussed

The ” ill-thought out” Albion Street scheme in Broadstairs is to be removed after a public outcry. Kent County Council concluded that the plan was not likely to be successful in promoting its aims of encouraging more walking and cycling. Having been introduced with no local consultation, South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay suggested residents and

Lambeth council today (1 October) launched its planned consultations on what to do about names and places in the borough with links to slavery and colonialism. It warned that the process would not be easy and is likely to be controversial. It chose the first day of Black History Month to invite suggestions from local

Those in favour of retaining St Mary’s Birth Centre in the town have only until December 21 to make their views known to the local health authority. The clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland want to carry out a £450million revamp of hospital services. This would include relocating the Melton baby unit

DYFED-POWYS Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn has demanded the Home Office make a public apology to Pembrokeshire residents over the lack of public engagement around using the military camp in Penally to house asylum seekers. Since the news broke of the plans to use the camp as a location to house 230 asylum seekers

Islington Council is facing legal action following months of protests against what residents describe as “draconian” new traffic restrictions implemented during lockdown. A pre-action protocol letter, which has been sent to Islington Council, is the first step in a Judicial Review process that could lead to High Court action to have the measures quashed. The protocol, seen