local compactness is hereditary for locally closed subspaces
Theorem - Let be a locally compact space and a subspace. If is locally closed in then is also locally compact.
The converse of this theorem is also true with the additional assumption
that is Hausdorff
.
Theorem 2 - Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space (http://planetmath.org/LocallyCompactHausdorffSpace) and a subspace. If is locally compact then is locally closed in .