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Capping some or all parish and town councils would seriously threaten their effectiveness and und...
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The parish and principal council sectors need to work much better together to ensure the best pos...
A genuine working partnership between central and local government is vital to the success of loc...
Chippenham Town Council may be a parish council, but is structured as and acts like a district or...
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.’
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Local Council Clerk Week is taking place from 10 to 14 July. Rob Smith says clerks are truly at t...
Ministers have been urged to ‘modernise the archaic 40-year-old system’ of parish polls after wha...
Rob Smith sets out the main conclusions of a landmark report based on the Society of Local Counci...
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