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INFRASTRUCTURE
Shadow minister: levelling up 'would take decades'
By Martin Ford | 28 February 2025
The last Conservative government failed to articulate the long-term nature of its levelling up po...
FINANCE
Whole government response required to secure councils' finances
By Ann McGauran | 28 February 2025
Making councils financially sustainable requires a whole government response led by the Ministry ...
DEVOLUTION
Call for devolution beyond England
By Martin Ford | 27 February 2025
The Government has faced a call to extend its English devolution agenda to Scotland.
REORGANISATION
City and county clash over reorganisation plans
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
Staffordshire CC has teed up a clash with Stoke-on-Trent City Council by proposing a county unita...
RECRUITMENT
Travers appointed as Richmond and Wandsworth interim chief
By Paul Marinko | 27 February 2025
Andrew Travers is set to become Wandsworth and Richmond LBCs’ interim chief executive.
POLICY
Pennycook confirms local plans 'overhaul'
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
The Government has confirmed an ‘overhaul’ of local plans.
COUNCILLORS
LGA accepts councillor sanctions as 'last resort'
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has finally formally conceded councillors should be suspen...
REORGANISATION
Counties pressure LGA over reorganisation shift
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
County council leaders have hit back at the Local Government Association’s (LGA) policy shift on ...
REORGANISATION
EXCLUSIVE: Government open to doughnut unitaries
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
Central government is open to a number of so-called doughnut unitaries, with some expanding to ma...
REGULATION
Regulator reprimands councils over legal failures
By Dan Peters | 27 February 2025
The Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded both Glasgow and Edinburgh city councils fo...
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- Shadow minister warns devolution Bill will 'die' without talks
- Ahead of LGR decisions, tribalism hasn't had the chance to take hold in Norfolk
- Call for developers to be hit with stick
- DCN rebrands to Local Councils Network amid reorganisation
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- Shadow minister warns devolution Bill will 'die' without talks
- Ahead of LGR decisions, tribalism hasn't had the chance to take hold in Norfolk
- Call for developers to be hit with stick
- DCN rebrands to Local Councils Network amid reorganisation
- A rocket booster has been fired under the tax devo debate
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