This website has proved difficult and confusing. It is not easy to navigate. This is evidenced by the location of some of the responses posted here. There are comments that are clearly related to specific sites, but may now be lost as they have been incorrectly posted.
The Consultation process has not been effectively advertised. Many people, including myself, were not aware of the existence of these proposals until very late. I would therefore suggest that many will still be unaware, or discover about them until too late. These people will have been disenfranchised by the lack of notification. I gather that there have been local meetings that have been very noisy, raucous even, as people vented their frustration and anger as they felt that they had been bypassed and the whole process was covering up a rubber stamp – the decisions had already been made from ‘on high’.
The technicality of the documentation has added to the feeling of exclusion, added to the complexity of getting around and understanding such a large website based source of information. It all adds to the impression that this is a token exercise, all to justify and give cover to a group that will just do what it wants.