Reorganisation

By Ann McGauran | 21 March 2023

A trailblazing partnership of councils in Lincolnshire provides critical mass for levelling up th...

FINANCE

No magic, just clear leadership

By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2023

There has been notable progress since Liverpool City Council entered intervention in 2021. Interi...

COUNCIL TAX

An agent of change

By Dan Peters | 14 March 2023

Unitarisation was a positive thing for Buckinghamshire, says chief executive Rachael Shimmin. Dan...

Keeping local government local

By Colin Copus | 21 February 2023

As delegates gather for the District Councils’ Network Annual Conference in Hertfordshire, Colin ...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Culture clash doomed merger

By Martin Ford | 11 January 2023

Councils should be wary of clashing of cultures after it led to the collapse of a council merger,...

DEVOLUTION

Lincolnshire in mayoral devolution deal push

By Martin Ford | 21 December 2022

Lincolnshire’s upper-tier councils are to press for a devolution deal including an elected mayor.

PLANNING

Transformation stalled at unitary's planning service, peers find

By Martin Ford | 19 December 2022

‘Widespread dissatisfaction’ with enforcement has been uncovered by a peer review of a new unitar...

FINANCE

Carter: Reorganisation will boost fiscal devolution case

By Mark Conrad | 13 December 2022

Fiscal devolution must be accompanied by reorganisation and growth incentives if councils are to ...

DEVOLUTION

Labour launches its plans for devo without the detail

By Heather Jameson | 07 December 2022

Heather Jameson says Gordon Brown’s report is more notable for what it lacks than the warm words ...

REORGANISATION

Now back to the real world

By Chris Tambini | 30 November 2022

Chris Tambini takes a fantastical look at what he thinks a rational secretary of state could do -...

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