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Councillor’s anger at lack of consultation over proposed community house closures

A ‘vital’ community asset is set to close at the end of the month and two local councillors are furious at the lack of consultation. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced it will no longer be funding a project at Community House in Wisbech, which helps residents overcome barriers to skills, training

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Council unanimously back formal objection to Gov shale gas exploration consultation

Politicians in Hull are opposing government plans to take decision-making over fracking schemes away from local councils. Ministers are proposing removing the need for energy companies to apply for planning permission to carry out exploratory non-hydraulic methods of testing for the presence of underground shale gas. Instead, they say fracking firms should be given automatic

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Does public consultation work? 1p & 2p pieces saved after overwhelming support in consultation

TCI commentary: Often UK media articles on public consultation describe the reported outrage from campaigners and consultees that they feel they are not being listened too, their views were not taken into account during the decision-making process and that consultation does not work. However here we have an article demonstrating that if done correctly, public consultation

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NHS Trust seeks to circumvent consultation to secure time-limited funding

TCI commentary: If this story (per Leicestershire Live) is accurate, we have another dispute over NHS consultation in the East Midlands. To our knowledge, legislation has never provided for an exception to the duty to involve per S.14Z in cases where there is an urgent need to secure funding for capital projects. Yes, there is

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Joint Fire Authority to proceed with legal challenge against Home Secretary

The county’s fire authority is pressing ahead with a legal challenge to the police commissioner’s controversial takeover of the service. Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority has voted to proceed with a judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to allow police commissioner John Campion to take over the governance of the region’s fire service. Mr

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Bedfordshire incinerator plans to be decided by the High Court

The fate of plans for an energy-from-waste incinerator in Mid-Beds could be decided by a two-day court case taking place today. The controversial Covanta scheme was expected to be built in Stewartby, following a decade-long saga. But campaigners managed to have the case referred to the High Court, after judges agreed there were grounds for

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Council implores CCG to do ‘full and proper’ consultation

A motion calling for beds to be maintained at Louth Hospital sparked a debate over ‘quantity versus quality’. Councillors voted en masse to an amended call for the number of beds and services at Louth Hospital to be maintained. Coun George Horton made the original motion which warned of “an increasingly elderly population coupled with

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