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Dan Peters

Articles by Dan Peters

EXCLUSIVE: Exeter chief settlement agreement emerges

By Dan Peters | 05 September 2023

Exeter City Council’s chief executive and growth director agreed to step down after being paid £6...

Upholding the good name of local government

By Dan Peters | 04 September 2023

The Government says Oflog will be using data ‘to prompt questions – not judgements’. But, with ne...

EXCLUSIVE: Housing pressures may push councils into effective bankruptcy

By Dan Peters | 04 September 2023

Rising housing pressures will force some councils to effectively declare bankruptcy, a local auth...

EXCLUSIVE: Government rejects sector's Oflog concerns

By Dan Peters | 04 September 2023

The Government has rejected council concerns about key Oflog metrics that have been labelled ‘mis...

Middlesbrough agrees to independent improvement advisory board

By Dan Peters | 04 September 2023

Middlesbrough Council has agreed to have an independent improvement advisory board for a year fro...

South East Councils to consider devolution of vehicle excise duty

By Dan Peters | 01 September 2023

The devolution of vehicle excise duty (VED) will be among the options expected to be considered b...

Perth & Kinross in global first

By Dan Peters | 31 August 2023

Perth & Kinross Council has become the first place in the world to use spiral-flow battery techno...

Home truths

By Dan Peters | 26 August 2023

Councils are struggling to meet the housing needs of both local families on waiting lists and ref...

EXCLUSIVE: Councils reject refugee housing fund

By Dan Peters | 25 August 2023

Tens of millions of pounds of a fund designed to support English councils to obtain housing for t...

Early intervention drive amid social housing repossessions

By Dan Peters | 25 August 2023

Councils with some of the highest relative rates of social landlord repossessions have described ...