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FINANCE
Coventry axes annual festival to save cash
By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026
Coventry City Council has taken the ‘difficult decision’ not to run its three-day annual music an...
LEADERSHIP
We must hold onto place-based leadership
By Maxine O'Mahony | 30 January 2026
Maxine O’Mahony says: 'We must preserve place-based leadership, visible presence, trusted relatio...
COHESION
Rising community tensions say council chiefs
By Paul Marinko | 28 January 2026
A new survey of senior council officers has found nearly three quarters (74%) feel community tens...
COHESION
Rebuilding the scaffolding to repair communities
By Paul Marinko | 28 January 2026
Community tensions have been rising in the last year, a new survey by Starfish Search has found. ...
FUEL POVERTY
Why we mustn't lose sight of people while we fix buildings
By Graham Duxbury | 26 January 2026
Graham Duxbury welcomes the Government’s Warm Homes Plan and says that localised support such as ...
GOVERNANCE
The stakes for democracy are high and the challenges of local governance remain
By Kersten England | 26 January 2026
Kersten England predicts continued social and political turbulence through 2026 and says collabor...
DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK
Genuinely local government could be lost to regionalism in the name of 'devolution'
By Cllr Richard Wright | 26 January 2026
'Around the world we see horrifying examples of central government overreach. Such awful things m...
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
Turning a moment into a movement
By Dan Crowe | 22 January 2026
3ni has working up and down the country to turn the Government’s Pride in Place programme into 's...
HOUSING
Innovative ways of building homes and upskilling prisoners
By Adele Gritten | 22 January 2026
Adele Gritten explains how prisons, housing providers and public-sector landowners are coming tog...
LGA
National conversation on neighbourhoods needed
By Neil Merrick | 20 January 2026
A senior Local Government Association (LGA) figure has called for a national conversation over th...
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