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Birmingham's innovation campus in search of investment

By Jamie Hailstone | 28 February 2017

A company owned by Birmingham City Council is looking for a new investor to help it almost double...

Birmingham denies Rogers in line for £500k exit package

By Jamie Hailstone | 24 February 2017

Birmingham City Council has denied that outgoing chief executive Mark Rogers is in line for a £50...

Glasgow plans £30m TIF deal

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 February 2017

Glasgow City Council is to develop a £30m tax incremental finance (TIF) package to fund the devel...

Council buys Tesco site for £43.5m

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 February 2017

Rotherham MBC has bought a former Tesco store, which will form a key part of a £43.5m regeneratio...

53% of London's 30 boroughs plan to replace IT systems

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 February 2017

More than half of local authorities in London are planning to replace their IT systems, according...

Authority's £50m fund will support services

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 February 2017

Broxbourne BC has agreed to create a £50m fund to invest in new properties.

Council steps back from unitary referendum plans

By Jamie Hailstone | 21 February 2017

Lincolnshire CC has backtracked on the idea of a unitary referendum after objections from the dis...

Shapps wades into revaluation row

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 February 2017

A former local government minister has waded into the ongoing row over business rates revaluation.

'No council tax to fix social care gap'

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 February 2017

The Welsh Government has ruled out using council tax to help plug the devolved nation’s social ca...

Kent districts urged to drop unitary aims

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 February 2017

Kent CC’s leader has called on the four districts contemplating a merger to distance themselves f...