PLANNING

Get ready for change

The new chair of the District Councils’ Network chief executive group Yvonne Rees, says her local authority members are up for change, but it needs to be done in a way that benefits residents. Ann McGauran reports.

District councils are drawing breath after a tumultuous period.

In recent years they have marked up what they describe as some notable successes. Two examples were fighting off reforms to planning they said would have been disastrous, alongside limiting the extent of local government reorganisation.

Ann McGauran

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