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BUSINESS RATES
Time to start banging on the devolution door
By Heather Jameson | 18 March 2015
Budget day deals on business rates, combined authorities and cities show just how far local gover...
WHITEHALL
Budget 2015: Osborne promises journey from 'austerity to prosperity'
By Heather Jameson | 18 March 2015
In a Budget that promised ‘no gimmicks’ in the run up to the General Election, Chancellor George ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Budget 2015: Councils could keep full fruits of business rates growth
By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2015
Local authorities have provisional agreement to keep the full yield of additional business rates ...
WHITEHALL
Business rates pilots set to spearhead devolution drive
17 March 2015
Radical plans to overhaul business rates will include devolving up to 100% of the rates to pilot ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Leaving Las Vegas
By Tony Kirkham | 17 March 2015
Tony Kirkham reflects on reforming the business rates system through the prism of poker skills an...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
'Radical' business rates review launched
By Jonathan Werran | 16 March 2015
Ministers have today promised a ‘radical review’ of business rates could change how firms across ...
FINANCE
Finance nausea
By Peter Stuart | 10 March 2015
A local government landscape where so many reference points are moving and shifting at the behest...
HOUSING
Collective responsibilities
By Abdool Kara | 10 March 2015
Abdool Kara sets out three example areas - New Homes Bonus, business rates and sector-led improve...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Going south can be profitable
By Cllr Gordon Keymer | 03 March 2015
In recent weeks, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, called on cities to ‘step forwa...
WHITEHALL
Firms back business rates devolution
By Jamie Hailstone | 02 March 2015
More than two thirds of UK firms have backed the Local Government Association’s (LGA) call to dev...
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- Council workers offered 3.3% pay rise in 'full and final' deal
- Final reorganisation decisions for four priority areas announced
- Bringing skills from the private sector into a council isn't simply a career shift
- Essex threatens legal action over reorganisation
- The overnight visitor levy could be a gamechanger for growing tourism in London
Programme Director (LGR Transition)
£121k – £134k (fixed term 2 years with option to extend)
Hertfordshire is embarking on one of the most significant transformations in its public services for a generation. Apply for this job
Assistant Director People Commissioning
£99,433 to £112,411
Bradford is a district on the rise: ambitious, confident and determined to deliver lasting change. Apply for this job
Strategic Director Environment
£159,862 to £167,495
Bradford is a district on the rise: ambitious, confident and determined to deliver lasting change. Apply for this job
- Council workers offered 3.3% pay rise in 'full and final' deal
- Final reorganisation decisions for four priority areas announced
- Bringing skills from the private sector into a council isn't simply a career shift
- Essex threatens legal action over reorganisation
- The overnight visitor levy could be a gamechanger for growing tourism in London
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