Title
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 | 03 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...
FINANCE
Welcome to Yorkshire chair resigns as expenses investigations begin
By Martin Ford | 18 April 2019
The board chairman of a Yorkshire tourism body has resigned following an expenses scandal that ha...
FINANCE
Doubts over new taxes to fund Commonwealth Games
By Martin Ford | 15 April 2019
New forms of tax are unlikely to fill a £40m hole in funding for the Commonwealth Games budget, c...
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Associate Director – Acquisitions, Compliance & Maintenance
£111,579 - £122,596
Shape Dudley’s future through bold investment, safe homes and transformational estate leadership. Apply for this job
Associate Director – Streetscene
£96,064 - £107,932
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking an exceptional leader to join our senior leadership team as Associate Director – Streetscene Apply for this job
Executive Director of Housing
£172,260 - £178,848
We will look to you to strengthen regulatory readiness, compliance and building safety; improve repairs Apply for this job
- Impact of ICB cuts leads councils to moot legal challenge
- EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Basildon pauses chief executive search
- EXCLUSIVE: Councils told to 'avoid publicity' over business rates refunds
- Rewiring the state: The case for a 50 to state pension age labour market measure
- Scottish councils reject reorganisation
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