LEGISLATION

Officer warning over street votes

By Mark Conrad | 06 February 2024

Senior council officers have issued a scathing response to plans for street-level planning votes ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Putting assets in to active new uses

By Alistair Chapman | 02 February 2024

Martin Guest and Alistair Chapman look at whether real estate can effectively address local autho...

ENVIRONMENT

Why flood levy's no longer affordable

By Cllr Paul Redgate | 31 January 2024

As places reel from the impact of recent floods, Cllr Paul Redgate says the Government must deliv...

FINANCE

Clampdown threat to diversity programmes

By Martin Ford | 24 January 2024

The Government is to clamp down on diversity programmes as part of a drive to ‘reduce wasteful ex...

FINANCE

Is it going to be giveaways or propping up councils?

23 January 2024

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has asked Treasury staff to scout for potential cash for local government,...

FINANCE

Lyons: Where are we now?

By Michael Burton | 23 January 2024

The Lyons review of local government was published 17 years ago. If the inquiry recommendations h...

ENVIRONMENT

Expanding Oflog's vision

By Jack Shaw | 22 January 2024

Jack Shaw says the Office for Local Government needs to go further than its current long-term vis...

WHITEHALL

MPs call on Sunak to boost council settlement

By Heather Jameson | 22 January 2024

More than 40 MPs have called on the Government to rethink the finance settlement in a bid to resc...

WHITEHALL

Gove outlines plans to speed up housing repairs

By Mark Conrad | 09 January 2024

Plans to force social landlords to quickly fix housing problems – including damp and mould – have...

FINANCE

Stormy waters ahead

By Mark Conrad | 08 January 2024

Mark Conrad talks to three major groups of councils about what the provisional finance settlement...

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Director of Culture, Leisure, and Tourism

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