Sentences with phrase «of the localism act»

Nigel Adams, head of democratic services, says: «We understand that there are people, including some eminent legal people, who are not convinced that this part of the Localism Act does what Eric Pickles says it will do.»

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has speeded along implementation of the Localism Act to ensure that councils in England are allowed to say prayers at the start of their meetings.

«The new guidance builds on existing transparency measures introduced as part of the Localism Act and is part of the new arrangements for local authority standards that replaced the bureaucratic and controversial Standards Board regime, abolished in 2012, which ministers believe had become a vehicle for malicious, petty and politically motivated complaints.»

«Not only is he over-riding the courts but also the will of Parliament that never considered prayers during the drafting of the Localism Act - and which makes no mention of prayers - to be used in this way.»

This is one of very few judgments on the meaning of ss 27 and 28 of the Localism Act 2011 («LA 2011») relating to standards, and provides helpful guidance for local authorities on the scope of their powers to investigate allegations of Councillor misconduct.

The decision contains observations about the relevance of a closed pub's recent trading history, and its current planning status, when assessing its future prospects for the purpose of section 88 (2)(b) of the Localism Act 2011.

The implementation of the Localism Act...

The Judge ruled that the Council had the power to investigate the allegations under s. 28 of the Localism Act 2011 and other provisions, and dismissed claims that the Council's process was vitiated by actual or apparent bias because of comments made by an external investigator.

Not exact matches

The Localism Act requires local authorities to maintain a list of assets of community value which have been nominated by the local community.

A number of other senior lawyers have also expressed doubt whether the Localism Act does, as Mr Pickles claims, make the inclusion of prayers in local authority meetings lawful.

There is no mention of prayers in the Localism Act, nor in any of the debates which gave rise to it.

Shortly after the ruling he fast - tracked the Localism Act's «general power of competence» which he claimed gave principal councils the power back to include acts of worship as part of their official meetings.

Eric Pickles has written to councils to confirm that the general power of competence in the Localism Act includes the legal right to say prayers at the start of their meetings.

Taken together with the important changes introduced in the Localism Act, this amounts to a fundamental reform of the planning system.

The Localism Act was passed in 2011 by the Coalition Government, allowing communities to designate Assets of Community Value in order to protect their status.

In 2012, it became one of the first authorities in the UK to return to a Committee System, abolishing the single party Cabinet, as allowed under the Localism Act [11]

We are achieving it through decentralisation — as in the Localism Act, whose provisions enabling local communities to take over the running of local services and decide their neighbourhood plan come into effect in the next few weeks.

Much of this stems from planning changes made by the last Administration, which is why we introduced the National Planning Policy Framework and abolished the last Government's top - down Regional Strategies through the Localism Act.

«Mr Pickles has unilaterally declared that the Localism Act restores the right of councils to pray during formal business.

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society said the Coalition Government's Localism Act 2011 had not been tested in any court, arguing Mr Pickles could not «simply walk in and give it any meaning that suits his purpose».

This is both because of the virtues of localism and civil society and because the federal government is by no means always on the side of the angels when it comes to fairness — remember the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Plessy, the WWII - era internment of Americans of Japanese descent, race - based redlining.

In keeping with the Government's promise to those entities doing business at UK ports the Localism Bill which had its first reading in the House of Commons on the 13 December 2010 includes an amendment to Section 49 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 giving the Secretary of State powers to make regulations to grant relief from the payment of business rates for premises in prescribed cases.