The proposals were brought forward by the last Tory government to stop local authorities caving into campaigns by pressure groups.
Councils faced a slew of calls to rename streets linked to slave owners and the Empire following the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
Online campaigns led local authorities across the country to announce that they were reviewing all such road names in their area.
Michael Gove, the then Local Communities Secretary, responded with plans that would have made councils hold a referendum to change a street name. Under the proposals, published in 2022, they would have needed to secure support from two thirds of residents on a road to go ahead with renaming.
The revelation that Ms. Rayner has dropped the plans was contained in a report by the Policy Exchange think tank....<<<Read More>>>...