Responses to National Consultations

This page gives details of responses to national consultations that have the potential to impact significantly on the city. Responses are from Southampton City Council unless otherwise stated.

More information on each consultation responses are below:

• A good education for all: inspection of local authority services (March 2013)
• Improving listed building consent (2012)
• Encouraging more joined up working in the health service (2012)
• Personal Independence Payment and eligibility for a Blue Badge (2012)
• Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2012: Consultation Response
• Implementation of the Sustainable Drainage Provisions in Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act (2010)
• Consultation on a new mandatory power of possession for anti-social behaviour
• National Planning Regulations
• Technical reforms of council tax
• Housing revenue account self-financing determinations
• Draft National Planning Policy Framework
• School funding reform: rationale and principles
• Academies pre-16 funding: options for the 2012/13 academic year consultation
• Planning for traveller sites
• Changes to the school admissions framework
• Regional Economic Performance Indicators consultation
• Consultation on relaxation of the planning rules for change of use from business to residential
• Response to the future of Nomis consultation
• Best Value: New Draft Statutory Guidance Consultation
• Financial support for 16 to 19 year olds in education or training consultation
• Bailey review on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood
• Call for evidence on sharing customer data
• Proposals to introduce a Community Right to Challenge
• Joint response to the Healthy Lives, Healthy People consultation by Southampton City Council and NHS Southampton
• Schools Financial Value Standard consultation
• Local support to replace Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for living expenses: A call for evidence
• Transparency in outcomes: A framework for adult social care
• Local Decisions: a fairer future for social housing
• Joint response to the White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ by Southampton City Council and NHS Southampton
• Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances
• Henley Review of the funding and delivery of music education - response by the Federation of Music Services
• Tree preservation orders proposals for streamlining - response by the Hampshire Tree Officers Forum
• Liberating the NHS: the information revolution