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POLICY AND POLITICS

Reed refuses to rule out fresh planning legislation

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2025

Fresh planning legislation could be tabled to strip back environmental protections in an effort to boost the economy by speeding up infrastructure projects.

PLANNING

Inspectorate looks to scale back diversity publishing

By Dan Peters | 05 September 2024

The Planning Inspectorate has begun a consultation on a proposal to stop publishing annual staff ...

HOUSING

Councils to have greater powers to compulsorily buy green belt land

By Emily Twinch | 12 August 2024

Local authorities will be handed powers to ensure landowners sell green belt land for housebuildi...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Clean, green, secure strategies for a positive future

By Christopher Hammond | 06 August 2024

The Labour Government’s mission-led approach promises national renewal through economic growth, c...

FINANCE

No decision on whether ARGA will cover local audit

By Dan Peters | 30 July 2024

The new Government has yet to make a decision on how it will fix local audit in the longer term, ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Putting councils at strategy's core

By Graeme McDonald | 30 July 2024

Local authorities, combined or not, will inescapably play a significant role in the success or fa...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Delivering the mission

By Emmet Regan | 24 July 2024

Emmet Regan presents a delivery framework of ‘Six Ps’ that takes lessons from the previous Labour...

FINANCE

Local government is at least creeping up the agenda

By By Adele Taylor | 24 July 2024

After the King's Speech the sector still needs to work together with a collective voice that ensu...

GOVERNANCE

We may be entering a new culture of candour

By Heather Jameson | 24 July 2024

The Hillsborough Bill is legislation that should never have been needed, but the change in tone s...

KING'S SPEECH

The Government should see how far the Hillsborough Law can go

By Cllr Elizabeth Campbell | 23 July 2024

The leader of Kensington & Chelsea LBC reflects on what she says was missing from the King’s Spee...