Legal

By Stuart Brown | 07 July 2021

Local authorities should start to look at how the National Procurement Policy Statement can be im...

WHITEHALL

COVID concerns prompt council to return to meeting virtually

By Dan Peters | 29 June 2021

Cheshire West & Chester Council has threatened to ignore the Government edict to return to face-t...

High Court rejects low traffic neighbourhoods challenge

By Laura Sharman | 29 June 2021

A legal challenge against Lambeth LBC's low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) has been rejected by th...

BUSINESS

Council prosecutes firm over jams

By Chris Ames | 23 June 2021

Thames Water has been prosecuted by a London borough after creating what the council said were un...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Planning for a greener Scotland

By Rory Alexander | 23 June 2021

With a draft of the latest, environmentally focused Scottish National Planning Framework set for ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Can local authorities still drive town and city centre regeneration?

By Jonathan Allen | 16 June 2021

Incentives such as the Levelling Up funding, combined with the long-term risk of falling business...

FINANCE

Environmental health risks being 'hollowed out'

By Paul Marinko | 15 June 2021

More than half of English councils are not taking on environmental health trainees and apprentice...

LEGAL

Asylum seeker costs should be funded from the centre

By Michael Burton | 08 June 2021

The fair and humanitarian answer from the Home Office is to properly fund councils shouldering th...

LEGAL

A change of direction

By Léonie Cowen | 08 June 2021

Léonie Cowen says there is a better model for the procurement of placements for looked after chil...

PLANNING

Ocado loses High Court battle against Islington

08 June 2021

Online supermarket Ocado has lost a High Court battle against Islington LBC over the use of a sto...

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