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FINANCE
Housing pressures threaten 'end of local government'
By Martin Ford | 24 January 2024
A call has been made for Government action on temporary housing costs that threaten to swallow up...
FINANCE
Concern over waste reform costs
By Martin Ford | 22 January 2024
Fears have been raised that more financial pressures could be heaped on councils as a result of w...
HOUSING
We need to devise a plan to solve our communities' housing crisis
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 15 January 2024
District councils need the Government to increase the housing benefit subsidy. Without this, loca...
FINANCE
Stormy waters ahead
By Mark Conrad | 08 January 2024
Mark Conrad talks to three major groups of councils about what the provisional finance settlement...
FINANCE
Call for MPs' help over 'inadequate' settlement
By Martin Ford | 18 December 2023
Councils are to turn to MPs to make the case to the Government following the announcement of an ‘...
FINANCE
Are we heading to a funding train crash?
By Ian Miller | 04 December 2023
The District Councils’ Network 'seeks at least a 6% increase in core spending power for districts...
FINANCE
Fewer than 100 homes for refugees are occupied
By Dan Peters | 23 November 2023
Fewer than 100 homes acquired using a fund to support English councils obtain housing for those f...
FINANCE
Sector unites in plea to chancellor
By Martin Ford | 22 November 2023
The local government sector in England has put out a call to Jeremy Hunt to ‘address the signific...
HOUSING
Getting Britain building homes
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 15 November 2023
We need to devise a system which ensures housing is built and we can provide the right mix of hom...
PLANNING
The next level begins
By Martin Ford | 08 November 2023
Last month saw the Levelling Up Act receive Royal Assent, but what will that actually mean for lo...
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