Joanne Fry is a senior local government officer with more than 10 years experience working in large public sector organisations including the European public administration in Brussels. She writes on…

At the South East Locality meeting earlier this week a lot of time was devoted to considering the plans for leasing Morgan Playing Fields to Street Soccer, a homeless initiative…

A campaigner has withdrawn her legal action against Highways England, after the body announced a second consultation over its plans for the A27 Arundel bypass. Dr Emma Tristram initially put…

More than 15,000 people responded to a consultation on the proposal to reform the legal gender recognition system in Scotland. Scotland should reform the law to allow people to legally…

TCI Commentary: For those seeking to understand the local aspects of the Politics of Consultation, take a look at recent developments in Norfolk. For once, a perfectly reasonable consultation was…

The independent Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) has announced a ten-week call for the public to submit their views, experience and evidence of extremism. The CCE said that the consultation…

Immersive technologies like virtual reality can be a powerful communications tool during public consultations on infrastructure projects, say Andy Thomas and Alex Southern. Digital transformation in infrastructure is bringing an…

Residents in Llay remain “outraged” as plans for the development of land in the village move a step closer to fruition. Wrexham Councillors will hold a full council meeting on…

The move comes less than two years after the company axed previous buses, leading to a rerouting of the X16 Hamilton bus along the route. Stagecoach have been lambasted for…