Gateshead Angel wrote:
There will be no penalty.
The DfT state that councils remain best placed to decide local issues.
When they ask for any justification all they have to say is that they believe their local policies to be within the best interest of the people within their borough and as the DfT conceed they are best placed to make that decision.
That would be wrong in some areas but right in others.
B. Lucky

Mick,
yes councils are best to deal with local issues, the issue you refer to is not a local issue, its competition law, and is a worldwide issue
certainly european and cannot be left to little joes in surburbia, dont think this is local its not.