Housing Ombudsman

Consultations from external agencies and central government 2019

• Powers for Dealing with Unauthorised Development and Encampments
• Air quality: draft Clean Air Strategy 2018
• Use of receipts from Right to Buy sales
• Future Library Services - Essex County Council
• Improving management of water in the environment
• The treatment of electricity storage within the planning system
• Local Government Pension Scheme: Fair Deal – strengthening pension protection
• Improving access to social housing for members of the Armed Forces
• Public Health Outcomes Framework: proposed changes 2019 to 2020
• Consultation on amending allergen information provisions contained within domestic food information legislation for food prepacked for direct sale
• Pay-as-you-go on rail
• Waste and recycling: making recycling collections consistent in England
• Introducing a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers
• Plastic packaging tax
• Packaging waste: changing the UK producer responsibility system for packaging waste
• Air quality: draft National Air Pollution Control Programme
• National Data Guardian: a consultation on priorities
• Essex County Council consultation on proposed Cycle Safety Schemes
• Tackling homelessness together
• Conservation covenants
• Social value in government procurement
• Independent review of the Financial Reporting Council: initial consultation on recommendations
• Off-payroll working rules from April 2020
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations - Producer Compliance Scheme (PCS) Balancing System
• Reinstating a road after street works: new edition of the code of practice
• Essex Public Library Service Consultation - Community Involvement - Tier 4 (Prettygate)
• Essex Public Library Service Consultation - Community Involvement - Tier 3 (Stanway, Tiptree, West Mersea, Wivenhoe)
• Decapitalisation rates for the 2021 business rates revaluation
• Infrastructure Finance Review
• Draft legislation detailing a new capital allowance for new non-residential structures and buildings
• Serious violence: new legal duty to support multi-agency action
• Tailored Review of Historic England
• CIPFA’s Proposed Financial Management Code for Local Government
• Local Bus Consultation
• Public service vehicle operator licensing and tribunal rules: legislative changes
• Restricting exit payments in the public sector
• A new Rent Standard from 2020
• Corporate transparency and register reform
• Regulatory proposals regarding consumer Internet of Things (IoT) security
• Online Harms - White Paper
• Green Essex Strategy
• Support for victims of domestic abuse in safe accomodation
• Changing Places Toilets
• Draft National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England
• Marine Strategy Part One: UK Updated Assessment and Good Environmental Status
• Local government pension scheme: changes to the local valuation cycle and management of employer risk
• Park and Ride Concessionary Bus Pass Consultation
• Regulating digital functional skills qualifications
• Land use change statistics: proposed changes
• Regulation of pre-paid funeral plans: consultation on a policy proposal
• Appropriate measures for permitted facilities that take healthcare waste
• Tiptree Village Neighbourhood Plan
• Building a safer future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system
• Redress for purchasers of new build homes and the New Homes Ombudsman
• Banning tyres aged 10 years and older
• Regulator of Social Housing - changes to the intervention, enforcement and use of powers guidance
• Smart data: putting consumers in control of their data and enabling innovation
• Electric vehicle chargepoints in residential and non-residential buildings
• Transparency in supply chains
• Local authority housing statistics: proposed changes
• Health is everyone's business: Proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss
• Good work plan: establishing a new single enforcement body for employment rights
• Consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• A new deal for renting: resetting the balance of rights and responsibilities between landlords and tenants
• Rogue landlord database reform
• Mobile homes: a fit and proper person test for park home sites
• Fuel poverty strategy for England
• Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s
• The impact of tobacco laws introduced between 2010 and 2016
• Street manager and street works permit scheme changes
• Good Work Plan: one-sided flexibility - addressing unfair flexible working practices
• Statutory guidance to police on firearms licensing
• Essex Walking Strategy
• St Botolphs Circus
• Offensive Weapons Act 2019: draft statutory guidance
• Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPOs): guidance
• Persimmon Homes - independent review
• New national model for shared ownership
• Proposed reforms to permitted development rights to support the deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage
• OTS tax reporting and payment surveys - residential properties and landlords
• Sprinklers and other fire safety measures in new high-rise blocks of flats
• An update to the water company drought plan guideline: 2019
• Ecodesign requirements for external power supplies: draft regulation
• Arts Council - draft strategy 2020-30
• The Future Homes Standard: changes to Part L and Part F of the Building Regulations for new dwellings
• Local government finance settlement 2020 to 2021: technical consultation
• Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme: Towards a more sustainable service
• Widening the A12 between junction 19 (Chelmsford) and junction 25 (A120 interchange)
• Development corporation reform: technical consultation
• River basin planning: Challenges and Choices
• NEGC LTD - public engagement on Garden Community proposals
• Land at Coach Road, Great Horkesley
• Essex County Council (ECC) Developers' Guide to Infrastructure Contributions
• A120 to A133 Link Road and Rapid Transit System
• Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments
• Permitted parking and special parking area amendments
• Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex’s Police Precept Survey 2019
• TRAF/7176 - Proposed 30 & 40 mph Speed Limits in East Mersea, West Mersea and Peldon, in the Borough of Colchester