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A Department of Health (DoH)claim that 6,000 responses to last year’s Stroke Consultation came from Fermanagh and Tyrone has been branded “ridiculous” by a member of the Fermanagh Stroke Support Group. Stephen McAloon has said that the support group can verify that they “hand delivered” 10,000 responses from Fermanagh and neighbouring towns and villages in […]
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A government department responsible for heritage sites did not go to court over a controversial planning decision at an ancient monument because its grounds for an injunction had been “fatally undermined” by previous decisions. The revelation came in papers revealed under freedom of information law. It centres on an approval for a wind turbine –
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More than 300 people have signed an e-petition against the closure of respite services for adults living with learning disabilities in Hemel Hempstead and across the county. Hertfordshire County Council is undergoing a consultation process on whether to close three centres offering ‘short breaks’ for the disabled – Tewin Road in Hemel Hempstead, Hixberry Lane
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Yarmouth Primary School governors have been threatened with legal action by campaigners fighting to save the school. A letter has been sent to the chair of governors Carla Bradshaw by solicitors acting on behalf of Keep Yarmouth School in Yarmouth campaigners — calling on the governing body to abandon the plans or face a judicial
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tCI Commentary: Consultation is not always the answer. If we over-use consultation rather than exploring other dialogue methods that might be more appropriate for a scenario, consultees may suffer from consultation fatigue, which in turn is detrimental to the decision-making process. Consultation involves a commitment to ‘conscientiously consider’ what people say. Treat it like a social
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Parents of special needs children in the borough are preparing for a potential legal fight with Waltham Forest Council over cuts to education provision. The long-running row over the council’s budget for special educational needs and disability (SEND) has seen parents become increasingly angry over the way they have been consulted. New proposals for cuts
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The deadline for responses to a discussion paper on Northern Ireland’s first ever Environment Strategy has been pushed back to 5 February 2020. With ramifications for the Northern Irish waste sector, the proposed strategy would explore achieving zero waste and moving to a circular economy. Having already received more than 800 responses so far, the
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tCI Commentary: At the Institute, we’ve followed this saga and it features heavily in our Law of Consultation courses. The implications were far reaching and it now appears it will end up back in court. We’ll be watching this closely and waiting for the hearing and subsequent judgment. If you’re a corporate member of the
Allotment holders in Huddersfield who won a judicial review to save their plots from being bulldozed face a new battle in the High Court in London. Kirklees Council has been granted an appeal into the ruling. The two-day appeal will take place in February at the Royal Courts of Justice. Campaigners were jubilant in May
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The NFU has launched a judicial review challenging the government’s decision not to grant badger culling licences to control bovine TB in Derbyshire. In September, Defra announced that culling licensee Natural England would not be extending the badger cull to the Midlands county. Farm minister George Eustice has acknowledged that the decision to pause a
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