Plans to strip England’s regional development agencies of powers have prompted a backlash from business groups, which warn that a gap in regional development must not be allowed to develop.
Demand to build council homes is far exceeding government expectations, putting pressure on the Treasury to release extra cash as part of the spending review next month
Elected politicians with a remit for community safety must be able to remove police chiefs who are not focusing on and delivering the outcomes they desire, writes James Morris for Local Government Lawyer
Residents should have the right to take over post offices, libraries, swimming pools or pubs threatened with closure, Conservatives said yesterday. Voluntary groups should have the right to buy when valued businesses and facilities are lost, they added.
Households in Britain are paying £4.5billion extra in tax so that local authorities can produce paperwork to prove they are hitting centrally-imposed targets, research shows
A city once wreathed in smoke and deafened by shipyard steel-hammers, has transformed itself into the greenest in Britain, according to the country’s most comprehensive sustainability audit.
There is still a place for shared services in helping local government avoid having to make swingeing cuts to both staff and services, says Paul Bettison in Accountancy Age
Young professionals struggling to get on the property ladder are being offered knock-down rents in some of London’s most sought after neighbourhoods.
The Local Government Association has called for the government to take an axe to public sector inspectors in a bid to safeguard councils’ position ahead of the impending public spending squeeze.
Until yesterday Swindon was stuck squarely between Bristol and Reading on the M4 corridor in Wiltshire. Now it has moved one step closer to Silicon Valley with plans to become Britains first wi-fi town, and free internet access for its 186,000-strong population.