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Council seeks views on how it should involve local people in the planning process during and after lockdown
Published: Tuesday, 23rd March 2021 Oxford City Council will begin public consultation this week over the way it involves local people in the planning process. The Statement of Community Involvement…
Read moreProposals on the future of Somerset local government criticised for “lack of detail and evidence”
Rival campaigns to shake up local government in Somerset have locked horns over a new report. The Government is currently consulting over proposals to replace the five existing Somerset councils…
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Reform of Judicial Review: making life easier for those who breach the law of consultation?
There have been those who have feared that the eagerly-awaited Independent Review of Administrative law (the Faulks Review) would recommend the end of Judicial Review as we know it. After…
Read moreCouncil’s controversial 24-hour bus lane consultation criticised as “poor and flawed” and a “complete joke”
The enforcement camera on the controversial new 24-hour bus lane in Northampton may be moved after councillors criticised their own party and labelled the scheme a “cash cow.” The new…
Read moreBenarty and Lochgelly community councils’ boundary dispute settled
A BOUNDARY change between Benarty and Lochgelly that was agreed in 2019 will remain in place after a line was drawn under the “controversial” issue at Fife Council’s meeting. The…
Read moreCouncillor sparks controversy after branding opponents of plans for a new school ‘NIMBYs’
A councillor sparked controversy after branding opponents of plans for a new school ‘NIMBYs’. The ‘outrageous’ remark was made by Coun Faisal Rana at a meeting of Rochdale council’s planning…
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The Week in Parliament
We’ve had a couple of Westminster-heavy weeks recently, so as there was little of immediate concern in the Commons or the Lords (except the lack of consultation on the proposed…
Read moreResidents criticise lack of engagement in council’s Saughtonhall parking consultation
A former Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, Norman Irons and his wife, Anne, claim that the council consultation on introducing parking charges in Saughtonhall has excluded them and…
Read moreStoke-on-Trent’s political map set to be redrawn – for second time in a decade
tCI Comment: Boundary changes have a long and relatively complicated set of rules about how they must be consulted upon. Last year, we saw the Northern Irish case of Re…
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