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FINANCE
Fast-track planning 'good news for cash-strapped councils'
By Jamie Hailstone | 23 February 2016
Developers have hailed plans to fast-track planning applications as good news for cash-strapped c...
FINANCE
Theory of everything
By Tracie Evans | 23 February 2016
How can councils better prepare themselves to deal with the impact of welfare reform? Tracie Evan...
FINANCE
Whitehall told to 'ditch short-sighted housing strategies'
By Dan Peters | 23 February 2016
Lords have urged the Government to ditch its ‘short-sighted’ approach to house building, ‘empower...
HEALTH
EXCLUSIVE: Adult social care biggest cost pressure
By Jamie Hailstone | 23 February 2016
Adult social care is the biggest short and long-term pressure for council chiefs, an exclusive su...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA demands flexibility over starter home scheme
By Sam Clayden | 17 February 2016
Local government leaders have demanded more flexibility to determine the types of homes built, as...
FINANCE
Let's raise the roof
By John Sparkes | 16 February 2016
John Sparkes says housing and welfare policy must be reformed if councils are to effectively tack...
FINANCE
A scheme that's hot property
By Cllr Saima Ashraf | 16 February 2016
Barking & Dagenham LBC is offering tenants £40,000 in cash to turn down their Right to Buy discou...
WHITEHALL
Councils should get first refusal on right to buy resales
By Sam Clayden | 12 February 2016
A senior MP has suggested councils and housing associations should be given first refusal on righ...
WHITEHALL
LGA hits back at 'unfair' council tax claim
By MJ reporter | 12 February 2016
Local authorities are justified in using council tax to expedite the delivery of new homes on to ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Councils are hampered on housing, says new Lyons' Review
By Heather Jameson | 11 February 2016
Local authorities are critical to government plans to increase housing supply, but they are hampe...
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- Shadow minister warns devolution Bill will 'die' without talks
- Ahead of LGR decisions, tribalism hasn't had the chance to take hold in Norfolk
- DCN rebrands to Local Councils Network amid reorganisation
- Call for developers to be hit with stick
- A rocket booster has been fired under the tax devo debate
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