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Statutory notices – a modern approach to alerting – focus first on activists, journalists, representatives at a hyperlocal level

15th January 2015 by William Perrin

My colleague Sarah Hartley, writing on Prolific North  has uncovered the extent of government spending on advertising with a handful of local papers in some Northern cities – the so called statutory notices.  And CLG has at the same time published an … [Read more...] about Statutory notices – a modern approach to alerting – focus first on activists, journalists, representatives at a hyperlocal level

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: #openjustice, alerts, clg, hyperlocal, pickles, prolific north, statutory notices

National media picks up on local council filming issue

16th July 2013 by Sarah Hartley

The national media is starting to pick up on the unfolding story of members of the public challenging their local authorities over the right to film or otherwise record public meetings. In an unlikely pairing, both The Telegraph and Private Eye have … [Read more...] about National media picks up on local council filming issue

Filed Under: Blog, Campaigning Tagged With: authority, clg, Council, ericpickles, filming, local, map, mapping, privateeye, telegraph

UK central government opens up local government to bloggers and local social media

23rd August 2012 by William Perrin

In what should be a big leap forward for local democracy and community web media UK central government is to decree in law that local government meetings must be open to local bloggers, tweeters, community web forums etc. I am not going to do the … [Read more...] about UK central government opens up local government to bloggers and local social media

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: #opendata, Blog, clg, democracy, islington, kings cross, openly local, Ventnor

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