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POLICY AND POLITICS

Four councils reject planning rule change

By Dan Peters | 30 October 2026

Four English councils have rejected government reforms transferring planning decisions from elected councillors to officers despite warnings that non-compliance could lead to legal challenges.

REORGANISATION

April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation

By Dan Peters | 29 October 2026

Ministers have insisted Whitehall is ‘committed to seeing local government reorganisation through...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

Emergency preparedness must go beyond survival kits

By Heather Jameson | 29 October 2026

Effective community resilience requires local leadership, inclusive emergency planning and truste...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Councils must be 'convenors' on rough sleeping, says LGA chair after No10 summit

By Neil Merrick | 27 October 2026

The chair of the Local Government Association has called on councils to act as ‘convenors’ after ...

Government told of rising complaints at Dudley after Best Value exit

By Dan Peters | 27 October 2026

Dudley MBC councillors will be asked to sign a pledge next week committing them to ‘demonstrate r...

PLANNING

Plan submission deadline extended

By Neil Merrick | 26 October 2026

Councils drawing up local development plans under old regulations have been given an extra three ...

DEVOLUTION

Why devolution needs locality

By Julia Smith | 22 October 2026

Julia Smith says Blaby DC sees every day the value of working closely with local people, and the ...

POLICY

Pervasive centralism continues

By Ian Miller | 22 October 2026

A lack of progress with the MHCLG’s review of fees and charges, and a conflict between changes to...

REWIRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Local state, national ambition

By Helen Bailey | 22 October 2026

In the latest in a series of articles looking at a reimagined role for local government in a rewi...

SOLACE

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Solace president issues rewiring the state warning

By Paul Marinko | 21 October 2026

Solace chief urges local government to ‘seize the moment’ amid concerns of divisions derailing th...

REWIRING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Councils must prove their relevance

By Barry Quirk | 21 October 2026

As the sector awaits the arrival of a devolution White Paper expected to contain a blueprint for ...

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