Leisure

By Martin Ford | 19 August 2019

Bath & North East Somerset Council has joined calls for powers to regulate Airbnb accommodation.

White Van Man on... tourism

14 August 2019

As usual the place is awash with tourists.

FINANCE

Going local on tax raising

By Alistair Jones | 13 August 2019

Boris Johnson has promised to grant more powers to local government, but has been silent on how t...

CULTURE

Union 'bewildered' by backing of city of culture bid

By Martin Ford | 31 July 2019

Bradford City Council has come under fire after backing a campaign to become the UK’s city of cul...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Leave those kids alone

By Claire Fox | 30 July 2019

Claire Fox says councils continue to thwart kids’ play activities in the interests of bureaucracy

WHITEHALL

Brum tourist tax call from ex-ministers

By Dan Peters | 22 July 2019

Former ministers have called for a tourist tax to be trialled in Birmingham to help fund the Comm...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Time for a UK-wide debate on tourism levies

By Cllr Judith Blake | 02 July 2019

Cities south of the border including Birmingham have plans to consider tourism levies. Cllr Judit...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Driving ahead with a new cultural and tourism strategy

By Sheila Oxtoby | 18 June 2019

Great Yarmouth BC is finalising a new strategy aligning its tourism and cultural offers, says She...

PLANNING

Planning permission for council sports centre quashed

By Martin Ford | 10 June 2019

Elmbridge BC may be forced to demolish its multi-million pound sports hub after a High Court judg...

LEISURE

Poo are you kidding?

28 May 2019

Diary was zapped back to the Mesozoic era this week after coming across a council’s mischievous c...

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