The government has updated its planning tax rules in a bid to stop councils double dipping by charging developers twice.
Localis chief executive Alex Thomson appeared on the BBC Sunday Politics, speaking about cuts to local authority budgets and some of the things that councils are doing to mitigate these.
Victims of anti-social behaviour will be able to choose the punishment for offenders under government plans.
Councils need analytical entrepreneurs and skilled communicators to survive, but they also need a smaller but better paid workforce says Alex Thomson.
New European Union (EU) environment regulations ‘risk bankrupting councils’, if they are not properly implemented, UK councillors have warned Brussels.
Localis chief executive Alex Thomson appeared on the BBC Radio Cornwall Breakfast Show, speaking about Lord Heseltine’s Review, the Autumn Statement and the need for early action in localising transport and skills funding.
Minsters have persuaded a council branded unviable not to pursue a merger with neighbours and instead becoming a virtual authority commissioning services from other providers.
Councils could miss out on the chance to improve local services if ministers do not remove barriers to staff mutuals and co-operatives, an influential group of MPs has reported.
Alex Thomson, Chief Executive of Localis, contributed alongside leading local government figures such as Hilary Benn MP to the latest Public Service Review magazine, making the case for local authorities to take the lead on regeneration.
Alex Thomson suggests that a number of councils would soon find themselves receiving no grant at all, funded from council tax receipts and their locally-retained share of business rates only poor but free, in other words.