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Herefordshire Council will refer the decision to temporarily close minor injury units in Herefordshire over the last three winters without consultation to the health secretary Matt Hancock. Councillors unanimously backed the motion by Ross-on-Wye East councillor Paul Symonds at this month’s full council meeting. He said councillors had not been consulted on the changes to […]
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A residents group is planning on taking the council to court over its decision to remove the A34 Perry Barr flyover. Members of the A34 Safety Action Group have handed a letter of intent to the council regarding the decision, which will see the flyover demolished as part of a £27.1 million ‘regeneration’ of Perry
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tCI Commentary: Approximately two-thirds of the consultation staff who attend our training courses admit to a loathing of public meetings. It is a topic we have written about in several Institute newsletters, and the article below highlights some of the mishaps that can occur. In his article “Prepare to meet your public”, tCI associate, Paul
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tCI Commentary: The NHS’ run of success in the High Court continues. Resisting Appeals from unhappy Councillors and patients at Banbury, Poole in Dorset and at also South Tyneside in recent months, the High Court has, once again, vindicated NHS Managers’ plans to centralise services – this time in Kent. They are all different, but
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Plans for a village and its public consultation have been slammed as “fundamentally flawed”. Hale Civic Society and the Federation of Small Businesses have criticised Trafford Council’s plans to redesign Hale Village – saying they will “ruin” the area. The council said it has received hundreds of “fantastic” responses to its “substantial” consultation to date;
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Council chiefs are facing fresh pressure to halt the closure of a Carse of Gowrie primary school. Abernyte Primary is scheduled to shut in July before the end of the school term, after a controversial vote by councillors last year. The decision was called in by the Scottish Government, leading to a judicial review which
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A last-ditch attempt to sway Greenwich Council away from new social care charges has been made to no avail by disability advocates. Impassioned pleas were made by two campaigners against the proposed charges at a meeting of Greenwich’s cabinet this month. The changes, which would see the council introduce a package of new charges aimed
The new Kingsthorpe Community Council is set to encompass the five wards of Sunnyside, Spring Park, Obelisk, Kingsthorpe ward and St David’s. But the last full council meeting on January 20 saw members of the public from Kingsthorpe and St David’s say they had not been included in the consultation. And councillors from Labour and
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Campaigners against a controversial traveller site in Wolverhampton have admitted it’s the “end of the road” after plans for a judicial review fell-through. Residents against the Gorsebrook Road development sought legal advice to challenge the decision after it was given the green light last month. But now a barrister from Landmark Chambers has advised them
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TCI commentary: As mentioned in the article, this stems from an interesting little case in the Court of Session (Mark Guild & Another for Judicial Review). Whilst most of it was not consultation related, the Court did engage with a discussion of s.104 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, which lays down that when
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