Open Consultation

Consultations you can actually read.

Public consultations decide things that last decades. They also run to hundreds of pages and close in six weeks.

This site tracks the ones that are open, and takes the documents apart so you can find the part that affects you: split into real sections, tagged by theme and place, fully searchable, every result citing its page in the official document. The formal response route and your councillors sit one click away.

Some are fully searchable here. The rest carry dates, documents and the official response route while we work through them.

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Open consultations

Closes 6 September 2026

Buckinghamshire · Regulation 19

450 pages · a 46 day consultation · 91,287 homes to 2045. The second largest document, with the shortest window of the five.

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Closes 8 September 2026

South Warwickshire (Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick) · Regulation 19

543 pages · a 50 day consultation · Joint plan for two districts to 2050. The largest document in the set, with the second shortest window.

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Closes 13 September 2026

Stoke-on-Trent · Regulation 19

a 42+ day consultation · Stated as six weeks from 3 August with no published end date found; 42 days is a minimum. Documents behind a portal that refuses automated requests.

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Closes 17 September 2026

Sevenoaks · Regulation 19

a 57 day consultation · Documents served through a portal that refuses automated requests; not yet measured.

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Closes 25 September 2026

Three Rivers · Regulation 19

408 pages · a 57 day consultation · Plan in two parts (245 + 163 pages), plus a 585 page sustainability appraisal of 184,708 words: the appraisal is larger than the plan it appraises.

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Closes 12 October 2026

Peterborough · Minerals and waste scoping (2026 Regulations)

a 71 day consultation · A scoping consultation asking what a plan ought to contain: 71 days. A finished 543 page plan next door: 50.

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The formal response always goes through the council’s own portal; Open Consultation is an independent guide, not an official channel. Why these windows do not fit the documents →

Opening soon

Wealden · Regulation 19

Six weeks from the week commencing 21 September 2026, per the council.

14 recent consultations, now closed

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