WHITEHALL
Devolution deal will give region 'seat at the table'
By Dan Peters | 24 November 2017
A new North of Tyne directly-elected mayor will have powers in housing, planning and skills, the ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
LGA reveals Brexit wish list
By Mark Conrad | 21 November 2017
The Local Government Association (LGA) has published a definitive wish list of new powers that it...
FINANCE
MP attacks 'merger most foul'
By Dan Peters | 15 November 2017
A MP has vowed to stop plans to create a super-district, labelling it a ‘merger most foul’.
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Giving councillors a voice
By Rachel Wall | 06 November 2017
Local government must organise itself to support its councillors in their interactions with exter...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Is there a crisis in representative democracy?
By Jonathan Carr-West | 23 October 2017
With participative democracy on the rise, but Jonathan Carr-West says it is important we do not g...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Eight out of ten people think elections are well run
By Heather Jameson | 11 October 2017
Eight out of ten people believe elections are well run and free from fraud, according to research...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Trumpeting Parmo's virtues
04 October 2017
The election of Donald Trump as US president has ripped up all the established rules about leader...
WHITEHALL
Mayor intervenes as auditors probe LEP
By Laura Sharman | 29 September 2017
The Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GCGPLEP) is causing ...
PLANNING
Councillors attack planning reforms
By Dan Peters | 28 September 2017
Scottish Government proposals to overhaul the planning system would erode the local democratic pr...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Councils must be mindful of the dangers of rewriting history
By Claire Fox | 27 September 2017
Claire Fox explains why demanding the past conforms to our present-day beliefs and putting forwar...
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