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Advisory group holds first meeting on rate retention

By Dan Peters | 20 July 2016

The group established to advise ministers on 100% business rates retention has met for the first ...

Pilot website to pioneer aid and support for UK refugees

By Dan Peters | 20 July 2016

Nine councils will pilot a website designed to help them specify the type of donations they need ...

Oxfordshire reorganisation ceasefire after Whitehall visit

By Dan Peters | 19 July 2016

Councils in Oxfordshire have agreed to further talks in a bid to end a reorganisation row.

'Too many voters' not correctly registered

By Dan Peters | 15 July 2016

‘Still too many voters’ are not correctly registered following the transition to individual elect...

Councils launch legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 15 July 2016

Two councils have launched an appeal to the highest court in the land to prevent developers ‘ridi...

Business as usual?

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

Dan Peters explores the key issues facing local government ahead of the devolution of business ra...

Fear for councils over business rates appeals

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

The risk of losing business rates appeals needs to be held at a national level, a senior local go...

Capital rates pilot a 'big risk' to sector

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

London Councils is pushing ahead with plans for the capital to retain all of its income from busi...

Handover is 'danger to county'

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

Proposals to hand over some council services in Chesterfield to a Sheffield city region mayor cou...

Whitehall refusal to publish grant details a 'scandal'

By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016

A ‘pungent whiff of scandal’ surrounds the Government’s refusal to publish key details about how ...