Gambling for local authorities: Licensing, planning, and regeneration

Local environmental health planning. Guidance for local and national authorities.

The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health, a responsibility that it fulfils in part through its publications...

Planners as Market Actors: The Role of Local Planning Authorities in UK’s Urban Regeneration Practice

At a time of public sector retrenchment in urban regeneration it has become increasingly important to understand how planners can help create better places. Recent studies suggest that planners must behave as market actors by deploying planning tools strategically to influence market behaviour. In this context, this paper examines how local planning authorities use a variety of policy instrumen...

Medical assessment for licensing of taxi drivers by Scottish local authorities.

In the UK, licensing of taxi drivers is dealt with by local government authorities. In Scotland, before the recent reorganization of local government, taxi licensing was under the jurisdiction of District Councils, so a telephone survey was conducted of all 52 mainland Scottish District Councils to ascertain the procedures which were being employed in assessing medical fitness to drive a taxi, ...

The Local Authorities' Part

Local Authorities and the Mental Health Act

One of the main principles of the Royal Commission of 1957 and of the Mental Health Act which followed it was a reorientation towards community services. This has given local authorities the function of caring for most of the mentally ill who are not being treated within hospitals and will allow them to play as big a part ?n mental health as they have done in physical health. The opportunity ha...