#publicconsultation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publicconsultation, aggregated by home.social.
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Commission seeks feedback on challenges and way forward in the area of effect of technology on copyright
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Commission seeks feedback on challenges and way forward in the area of effect of technology on copyright
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Commission seeks feedback on challenges and way forward in the area of effect of technology on copyright
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Commission seeks feedback on challenges and way forward in the area of effect of technology on copyright
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SCURLAGE: Old Countryman pub to be bulldozed for 21 affordable homes
The bulldozers are lining up for the Countryman.
The boarded-up Scurlage pub, which shut in April 2019 as the Monksland Bar and Grill, would be flattened to make way for 21 affordable homes under plans now out for public consultation.
Developer Hale Group is working with housing association Codi, formerly Pobl, and every one of the homes would be affordable.
But the plans do not say they would be kept for local people.
Homes for the housing register, no mention of a local connection
The homes would go to people who meet the requirements of Swansea Council’s housing register, the developer’s planning statement says.
Nowhere do the planning documents restrict them to people from Scurlage or Gower.
The statement does argue the scheme meets the council’s policy for affordable homes “for local needs”, which says homes must go to people who meet the council’s “occupancy criteria”. It does not say what those criteria would be.
A legal agreement is expected to keep the homes affordable “in perpetuity”, it adds.
The plans are for four one-bedroom flats, 11 two-bedroom houses, three three-bedroom houses and three four-bedroom houses.
It is the second former Gower pub in a matter of weeks to be cleared for housing. Swansea Council’s planning committee voted unanimously on 8 September to let the Greyhound at Oldwalls, near Llanrhidian, make way for nine homes.
Four of those will be affordable. Llanrhidian Community Council had objected to them being offered as shared ownership instead of going to a housing association, but the developer’s agent told councillors that Beacon Cymru Group had now agreed to take them on.
Backing the scheme, committee member Cllr Peter May said it had long been a problem on Gower that people could not stay in the area from one generation to the next.
The Countryman scheme would be social rent throughout, with Codi as the partner.
A nightclub, a stage and 500 covers
For anyone who never made it through the doors, the Countryman was far bigger than it looked from the road.
It had around 500 covers, according to a viability report written for the developer: a 200-cover lounge bar with its own stage, a 90-cover restaurant and a 230-capacity nightclub with a DJ booth.
The former Monksland Bar and Grill, once the Countryman, seen from the west (Image: Spring Design Consultancy)Takings had been sliding for years. The report puts turnover at £327,117 in 2003, falling to around £165,000 a year by 2013, when the pub was “loss making”.
One viewing, not a single offer
Nobody wanted it. The pub was on the market from January 2020 until the middle of 2025, drawing around 16 enquiries, one viewing and no offers, the planning statement says.
It had already failed to sell twice, according to the viability report: at £595,000 in 2007 and at £395,000 in 2013.
It is now agreed to be sold to developers for £650,000.
Surveyor Kate Robertson of Fleurets, who wrote the report, calculates that anyone reopening it as a pub would lose about £34,000 a year.
“I am of the opinion that the property does not have a credible or economically sustainable future trading as a public house,” she says.
Since it shut, village drinkers have made do with the South Gower Sports Club bar, which opens Thursday to Saturday evenings and costs £10 a year to join, the statement notes.
The field across the road still waiting for its homes
Just 35 metres away, across the B4247, a field has been earmarked for local-needs affordable housing in Swansea’s local plan. No planning application for it has ever come forward, the statement says.
The developer argues its own scheme is the better bet: a brownfield site instead of farmland, and 21 affordable homes against the 13 required on the field.
Too crowded for Gower, the council said first time round
The first version squeezed in 27 homes. In June 2025, Swansea Council’s planners told the developer it was too dense for the Gower AONB and asked for more evidence that the pub could not survive, according to the statement.
The scheme was cut back and a play area added, and later council advice welcomed the “better placemaking”. Highways officers also asked for a pedestrian crossing on Monksland Road, which is now in the plans.
The two-storey homes would be finished in pastel render, with heat pumps instead of oil or gas boilers.
Got a view? You have until 22 October
Comments can be emailed to [email protected], or posted to Simply Planning Ltd, 302 Creative Quarter, 8a Morgan Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1AF, by Thursday 22 October.
The full planning application then goes to Swansea Council, which would consult again before any decision.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
GOWER: Eight years after last orders, the Greyhound faces the bulldozers
The Oldwalls pub, its nine homes and the row over what ‘affordable’ means.Gower news from Swansea Bay News
The latest from across the peninsula.Affordable housing
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New affordable and social homes across Swansea Bay.Kit Peters is a journalist and the editor of Swansea Bay News, covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire since 2020.
#AffordableHousing #BeaconCymru #CllrPeterMay #CodiGroup #Gower #GreyhoundInn #JGHaleConstruction #planningApplication #Pobl #pub #pubClosure #PublicConsultation #Scurlage #socialHousing #TheCountryman -
Green belt or grey belt? Disagreement between City Hall and Harrow means land open to 158 homes
Plans to build 158 homes on land in North London have sparked concern over the targeting of the…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Harrow #DeveloperBarwoodLand #GreenBelt #HarrowCouncil #PinnerParkSchool #publicconsultation
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East London borough Waltham Forest could get e-bikes for the first time
For most Londoners, e-bikes are part of the fabric of city life. Whether you’re cheerfully zipping across town…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #WalthamForest #Londonboroughs #PaulPerkins #publicconsultation
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/116236/ Switzerland launches consultation on stricter bonus rules for banks #BankingRegulations #Banks #bonuses #CreditSuisse #DraftProposals #PublicConsultation #Switzerland
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Jackdaw project moves toward UK approval after consultation closes
(WO) — The public consultation for Adura’s Jackdaw gas project has concluded, marking another regulatory milestone as the…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Adura #Jackdawgasproject #NeilMcCulloch #NorthSeadevelopment #offshoregas #offshoreoilandgas #OPRED #publicconsultation #Rosebank #Rosebankproject #UKenergysecurity #UKNorthSea #UnitedKingdom #WorldOil
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/101100/ Jackdaw project moves toward UK approval after consultation closes #Adura #JackdawGasProject #NeilMcCulloch #NorthSeaDevelopment #OffshoreGas #OffshoreOilAndGas #OPRED #PublicConsultation #Rosebank #RosebankProject #UK #UKEnergySecurity #UKNorthSea #UnitedKingdom #WorldOil
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Thought I'd attend a City open house from my phone but the Zoom app doesn't allow screenshots?!? Ugh. Hauling myself to a desktop.
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Thought I'd attend a City open house from my phone but the Zoom app doesn't allow screenshots?!? Ugh. Hauling myself to a desktop.
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Thought I'd attend a City open house from my phone but the Zoom app doesn't allow screenshots?!? Ugh. Hauling myself to a desktop.
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Thought I'd attend a City open house from my phone but the Zoom app doesn't allow screenshots?!? Ugh. Hauling myself to a desktop.
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Jackdaw project moves toward UK approval after consultation closes https://www.byteseu.com/2263926/ #Adura #GreatBritain #JackdawGasProject #NeilMcCulloch #NorthSeaDevelopment #OffshoreGas #OffshoreOilAndGas #OPRED #PublicConsultation #Rosebank #RosebankProject #UKEnergySecurity #UKNorthSea #UnitedKingdom #WorldOil
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Birmingham ‘New Street Station is full’ says campaign group backing divisive Digbeth rail proposal
A campaign group in Birmingham has thrown its support behind a ‘vitally important’ scheme that is dividing opinion…
#Birmingham #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #AllisonStreet #BirminghamMoorStreetstation #Britain #campaigngroup #Digbeth #GreatBritain #MidlandsRailHubAlliance #NewStreetStation #publicconsultation #railnetwork
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1135215/ Birmingham ‘New Street Station is full’ says campaign group backing divisive Digbeth rail proposal #AllisonStreet #Birmingham #BirminghamMoorStreetStation #Britain #CampaignGroup #Digbeth #England #GreatBritain #MidlandsRailHubAlliance #NewStreetStation #PublicConsultation #RailNetwork #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Feedback sought on city centre balaclava ban
The ban could come into force in September [Getty Images] A public consultation has been launched on plans…
#Canada #anti-socialbehaviour #cityresidents #facecoverings #MattShannon #Nottinghamcitycentre #NottinghamCityCouncil #publicconsultation
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EDPB Publishes Draft Guidelines on Anonymisation
On July 7, 2026, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted draft Guidelines 02/2026 on Anonymisation (“Guidelines”), updating…
#Europe #EU #anonymity #anonymization #DraftGuidelines #EDPB #EuropeanUnion #publicconsultation
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🗣️ #PublicConsultation | Indirect effects of pesticides on biodiversity. Consultation open on a draft framework to assess their indirect effects on biodiversity via trophic interactions. ✍️ Submit comments by 22/07/2026 🔗 link.europa.eu/BTMNHj #EUHaveYourSay #Biodiversity
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🗣️ #PublicConsultation | Indirect effects of pesticides on biodiversity. Consultation open on a draft framework to assess their indirect effects on biodiversity via trophic interactions. ✍️ Submit comments by 22/07/2026 🔗 link.europa.eu/BTMNHj #EUHaveYourSay #Biodiversity
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🗣️ #PublicConsultation | Indirect effects of pesticides on biodiversity. Consultation open on a draft framework to assess their indirect effects on biodiversity via trophic interactions. ✍️ Submit comments by 22/07/2026 🔗 link.europa.eu/BTMNHj #EUHaveYourSay #Biodiversity
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Brazil's ANPD releases draft age verification guide open to public input: Brazil's ANPD releases a draft guide on reliable age verification for digital platforms, opening a public consultation under the May 2026 ECA Digital framework. https://ppc.land/brazils-anpd-releases-draft-age-verification-guide-open-to-public-input/ #AgeVerification #DigitalPlatforms #PrivacyProtection #CyberSecurity #PublicConsultation
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Brazil's ANPD releases draft age verification guide open to public input: Brazil's ANPD releases a draft guide on reliable age verification for digital platforms, opening a public consultation under the May 2026 ECA Digital framework. https://ppc.land/brazils-anpd-releases-draft-age-verification-guide-open-to-public-input/ #AgeVerification #DigitalPlatforms #PrivacyProtection #CyberSecurity #PublicConsultation
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Brazil's ANPD releases draft age verification guide open to public input: Brazil's ANPD releases a draft guide on reliable age verification for digital platforms, opening a public consultation under the May 2026 ECA Digital framework. https://ppc.land/brazils-anpd-releases-draft-age-verification-guide-open-to-public-input/ #AgeVerification #DigitalPlatforms #PrivacyProtection #CyberSecurity #PublicConsultation
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RT by @EU_MARE: 🌊 The Commission launched a #PublicConsultation on the European #Ocean #Act, a key step towards stronger EU ocean governance
🗓 Open until 16 July 2026
💬 Stakeholders, experts & citizens are invited to contribute👉 More info: https://tinyurl.com/4abmhuny
@cinea_EU >@EU_MARE🌊 The Commission launched a #PublicConsultation on the European #Ocean #Act, a key step towards stronger EU ocean governance
🗓 Open until 16 July 2026
💬 Stakeholders, experts & citizens are invited to contribute👉 More info: tinyurl.com/4abmhuny
@cinea_EU @EU_MARE
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Hey #Fediverse, i need you! 🚀 The European Commission wants your input on open digital ecosystems. This is your chance to make your voice heard and shape the future of open source in Europe. 💻🌍 Join the consultation and make a difference! #OpenSource #TechEU #PublicConsultation
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Hey #Fediverse, i need you! 🚀 The European Commission wants your input on open digital ecosystems. This is your chance to make your voice heard and shape the future of open source in Europe. 💻🌍 Join the consultation and make a difference! #OpenSource #TechEU #PublicConsultation
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Public consultation on #EU public procurement rules. 🇪🇺
President von der Leyen announced a revision of the public procurement directives. The @EUCommission would like to hear your 🫵 views.
Feedback period:
3 Nov. 2025 - 26 Jan. 2026#HaveYourSay #PublicConsultation #DigitalSovereignty #‘MadeInEurope #FOSS #FLOSS #PublicMoneyPublicCode #EuStack
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Public consultation on #EU public procurement rules. 🇪🇺
President von der Leyen announced a revision of the public procurement directives. The @EUCommission would like to hear your 🫵 views.
Feedback period:
3 Nov. 2025 - 26 Jan. 2026#HaveYourSay #PublicConsultation #DigitalSovereignty #‘MadeInEurope #FOSS #FLOSS #PublicMoneyPublicCode #EuStack
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Your voice is crucial. HCA transformation needs thoughtful input, not alarmism. If you care about archaeology & heritage in BC, please add your constructive ideas to the conversation thru this BC Survey open to everyone: engage.gov.bc.ca/heritagecons... (6/6) #BCPoli #PublicConsultation #GetInvolved
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Please complete and BOOST the online public consultation to collect opinions on the Basic Income for the Arts: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2025-public-consultation-BIA
The consultation comprises a short survey and shouldn’t take longer than a minute or two to complete. It gives an opportunity for the public and the arts sector to share their opinions. #BIA #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicIncome #ArtsWorkers #PublicConsultation
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Folks in England, you can reply to the government consultation on land use. This is an important opportunity to advocate for rewilding, increasing transparency into land ownership, banning destructive practices like driven grouse shooting and burning moors, and more.
You can respond as an individual or on behalf of an organisation until April 25.
My responses, which you are free to use or adapt, are here: https://resilienceweb.org.uk/news/land-use-consultation
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CW: NZPol where to submit on speed limit increases
So National have been pushed back to taking consultation on at least some of the state highway speed limit re-increases. You can find the consultation form linked. It's a few questions about you and then literally 3 click-a-thing and one longer-if-you-want to answer per section of road relevant to you. Hit it.
#NZPol #Aotearoa #PublicSubmissions #PublicConsultation
https://nzta.mysocialpinpoint.com/speed-reversals-and-consultations