Infrastructure

By Michael Burton | 06 January 2015

With a new rebranding to focus on internal business transformation and external regeneration, plu...

Three-prong devo deal planned

By Jamie Hailstone | 16 December 2014

Three county councils are working together for the first ‘combined authority’ partnership of its ...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Drop fracking rules says Labour

By MJ reporter | 10 December 2014

The Labour Party has called off the regulations around fracking in the new Infrastructure Bill to...

PLANNING

Ten Welsh councils in combined authority push

By Jonathan Werran | 09 December 2014

Proposals issued to establish a combined authority for the South East Wales region able to take c...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Local leadership needed to secure skills for the future

By Mark Boleat | 09 December 2014

The top-down national government approach to skills provision is not working. It is time for loca...

BUSINESS

Now is the winter of devolution discontent

By Cllr David Hodge | 08 December 2014

CCN chairman Cllr David Hodge laments last week's Autumn Statement, in which counties were left i...

BUSINESS

Divided devolution

By Cllr David Finch | 08 December 2014

The Government’s city-centric devolution agenda spells economic oblivion for county areas which a...

PLANNING

Ex-minister calls for scrapping of quango

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 December 2014

A Conservative MP will today call for the Planning Inspectorate to be scrapped to help protect vi...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A worrying trend towards self-sufficiency

By Frances Foster | 05 December 2014

Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...

FINANCE

Risks of retrenchment

By Andrew Jepp | 04 December 2014

The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...

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