London’s mayor has responded to a recent public consultation with “tough action” by moving towards making Londoner’s diets more healthy, banning junk food advertising on all TfL controlled transport. Any companies selling foods that are high in sugar, fat or salt will be affected by the ban to combat what the mayor has referred to […]
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Series of Community Engagement events by HS2 begins next week
Following 10 months of early design and construction proposals by HS2 Ltd, a series of community engagement events is starting next week between the West Midlands and Leeds, as well as between Crewe and Manchester (source). These events and the proposals that have that been formulated for discussion in them, come after last years […]
General Election or Public Consultation? Grieve believes that Brexit deal options will mean one or the other for Theresa May come October
Former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve believes a parliamentary impasse regarding Brexit is on its way and supports it’s resolution via a second referendum, reports UK Business Insider here “My view is that it may be impossible to resolve this issue without a further public consultation. On the face of it, what we’re going […]
London councils consider public consultations after landmark 3 year “buffer zone” around Ealing abortion clinic approved
Ealing council has moved to prevent repetition of recent clashes between pro-life and pro-choice campaigners, outside the Marie Stopes Clinic in Mattock Lane. A unanimous vote by the council, the first of its kind in the UK, blocked protestors from standing within 100 metres of the site via a PSPO, in what Richard Bentley, the […]
UK Environment Secretary responds to Public Consultation result regarding £17bn illegal global Ivory trade
The government stated yesterday that a ban on the sale of all ivory items will be imposed in the UK, after finding overwhelming support from 88% of consultees in the recent public consultation on the matter. Although sales of items containing new ivory has been illegal in the UK for almost 3 decades, the […]
