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Posted 17 years ago3 minute read

Hurry, Hurry for the Xmas Sales – Unrepeatable offer: enjoy next week’s Tuesday Topic a full FOUR DAYS EARLY!

With PricewaterhouseCoopers reporting 80% of high-street stores offering unseasonably early Sales, we have turned our eagle-eye on the effects of...

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Posted 17 years ago4 minute read

Empowering what exactly? – There are two parallel strands of thinking to be seen in the Government’s new Local Democracy Bill

We’re in danger of getting into something of a tangle about the different kinds of democracy we want. The old...

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Posted 17 years ago4 minute read

Mixed messages – How can the Planning Bill be squared with the Empowerment Agenda?

Any day now a new Planning Bill will receive the Royal Assent. Commons rebellions have been quelled; Lords opposition has...

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Posted 17 years ago4 minute read

The Consultation Crunch – Where economic uncertainty affects the credibility of consultations

The great advantage of one-off consultations is that the period during which something unexpected can intervene is limited! In reality,...

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Posted 17 years ago4 minute read

Strictly John Sargeant – Classic lessons for public consultations – from an unlikely source

So much has been written about this seemingly-trivial digression from serious news that it seems an indulgence to delve further...

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Posted 17 years ago5 minute read

Goodbye, High, wide and handsome …… – The world of public and stakeholder consultation will have to adapt to considerably changed circumstances. Now is the time to think it through!

Public engagement is not recession-proof. There are those who argue that global economic meltdown, failing banks, and stock market freefalls...

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