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ECONOMIC GROWTH
A true test of local powers
By Nick Forbes | 26 April 2016
Nick Forbes explains why the steel crisis proves devolution of business rates must be accompanied...
WHITEHALL
Fresh concerns over Whitehall housebuilding policy
By Sam Clayden | 20 April 2016
Former Local Government Association chair Lord Beecham has raised fresh concerns with the Governm...
WHITEHALL
Government reassurance after pensions petition
By Laura Sharman | 20 April 2016
Councils will not be forced to invest their pension funds into infrastructure schemes, the Govern...
HEALTH
Health MJ: The expensive legacy of PFI in the NHS
By Mervyn Greer | 08 April 2016
Many hospital trusts are stuck with the expensive legacies of private finance deals. Mervyn Greer...
WHITEHALL
Opposition grows against council pension plans
By Laura Sharman | 05 April 2016
A petition calling for a parliamentary debate on plans to force local government pension schemes ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Councils to use procurement to help steel
By Mark Whitehead | 04 April 2016
Councils have underlined their commitment to supporting communities through their buying policies...
FINANCE
Councils calculate cost of floods at £250m
By Mark Whitehead | 01 April 2016
The cost of damage caused by floods over the winter has reached nearly £250m and is still rising,...
BUSINESS
Brexit is 'bad news for building'
By Jamie Hailstone | 01 April 2016
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has warned that Brexit would be catastrophic to the UK’s housing m...
WHITEHALL
Flooding cost 'still rising'
By Mark Whitehead | 29 March 2016
The cost of damage caused by floods over the winter has reached nearly £250m and is still rising,...
WHITEHALL
Secretary of state to 'seize' housing development decisions
By Sam Clayden | 24 March 2016
In ‘another step away from localism,’ the Government is cutting local authorities out of major ho...
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