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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:59 am ] |
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Local (parish and town) councils should be given a new legal right to be consulted on local transport licences, according to a national committee charged with promoting new sustainability powers at grassroots level. The move is backed by the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) and would see local councils have more say over licensing applications from vehicle operators such as local taxi firms. Wingham Parish Council in Kent has proposed the idea using the Sustainable Communities Act (SCA), a bottom-up process that allows local people to drive central government action to help their local communities. The proposal is supported by NALC's SCA Board – a committee run by NALC made up of councillors and a Local Works representative, which is charged with looking at proposals turned down by the government and deciding whether they should be reconsidered. At a meeting of the Selector Panel last week they agreed to re-submit the proposal to the Department for Transport, backing calls for England's 9000 parishes to have a legal right to be consulted by transport authorities when applications are made to them for example from local taxi firms. http://www.nalc.gov.uk/news?view=entry&id=202 |
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