24 February 2021

Northumberland CC is looking to exert more control over its wholly-owned property firm after it posted losses of £30m.

22 February 2021

Dorset Council is leading a consortium of local, national and international partners delivering the £7m 5G RuralDorset project. Matt Prosser explains why the new unitary authority is involved, and outlines the potential benefits.

22 February 2021

Grant fraud is expected to soar because of the amount of COVID-19 funding channelled through local government, according to the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).

10 February 2021

Potential cuts to the rateable values of business properties in light of COVID could have a ‘catastrophic’ impact on council budgets, London finance chiefs have warned.

09 February 2021

Whitehall officials are putting communities secretary Robert Jenrick under pressure to change course after he failed to implement a key recommendation of the Redmond Review, The MJ understands.

03 February 2021

Bristol City Council has named Arcadis as its new strategic partner to help the delivery of new infrastructure, homes and regeneration.

01 February 2021

Labour-run Warrington Council has still not decided whether to bring an out-of-town business park onshore more than three years after being accused of avoiding tax, The MJ can reveal.

26 January 2021

Councils will be allowed to deprioritise some trading standards and health and safety work to focus on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit disruption.

25 January 2021

Councils are being ordered to return millions of pounds in business grants to Whitehall even with firms shuttered in the middle of a national lockdown.

21 January 2021

Senior Norwich City Council members have taken another step towards bringing environmental services back under local authority control from April.

18 January 2021

Senior councillors will receive a confidential quarterly report on the performance of all Warrington Council companies after two external reviews into the authority’s commercial approach.

08 January 2021

More uncertainty has been heaped on councils after it emerged they could be hit by a £481m business rates rebate for the office sector.

06 January 2021

Supermarkets have become ‘lax’ and are not doing enough to keep shoppers safe, a council leader has warned.

05 January 2021

Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in England are to receive a one-off grant worth up to £9,000 to support them during the lockdown, chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.

15 December 2020

Sport England has finally launched the £100m biddable fund to support English councils with outsourced public leisure centre provision.

14 December 2020

The body responsible for overseeing audit fees is poised to assess requests for a number of significant increases, including one ‘whopping’ 120% rise.

08 December 2020

There should be no ‘one-size fits all’ approach to recovery says a banking group study involving 900 business and local political leaders across the UK.

30 November 2020

Tier three communities in the north and Midlands will be ‘stretched to breaking point’ once the grant aimed at supporting local business is cut at the end of the national lockdown, according to Labour.

23 November 2020

Auditors have delayed signing off Thanet DC’s 2019/20 accounts while they investigate the council’s use of gagging orders in resolving grievances.

20 November 2020

Senior Gateshead MBC councillors have agreed to bring back housing stock under the council’s control from April after 16 years.