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Uneven devo prompting push-back on housing growth plans

Uneven progress in devolution across England could result in council resistance to Government plans to drive housing growth via development corporations.

By Martin Ford

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

Sussex leaders are to demand ministers fully explain why they have delayed a final reorganisation decision, or they will consider launching a judicial review.

ELECTIONS

The political consequence on reorganisation

By By Paul Marinko | 09 April 2026

With local elections now in full swing, it is inevitable that pronouncements by local politicians about the sector will be politically charged. But as our news analysis piece this week reveals, it is not just the politicians that are branding the Government’s reorganisation plans as being overly political in nature.

POLICY AND POLITICS

Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent

By By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

Ministers have been urged to bring forward their decision on local government reorganisation in Kent ‘without delay’.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ministers face legal threat as furious Sussex leaders demand answers on reorganisation delay

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

POLICY AND POLITICS

Calls grow to fast-track reorganisation in Kent

By By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

Ministers have been urged to bring forward their decision on local government reorganisation in K...

POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Government 'not planning' judicial reviews for councils missing food waste rollout

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

The Government is not planning on hitting English councils that have failed to roll out separate ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Government accused of 'failing to deliver' on council tax modernisation

By Dan Peters | 09 April 2026

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to deliver’ on plans to modernise and improve the adm...

PLANNING

Uneven devo prompting push-back on housing growth plans

By Martin Ford | 09 April 2026

Uneven progress in devolution across England could result in council resistance to Government pla...

DISTRICT COUNCILS' NETWORK

LCN chair: CCN existence 'illogical'

By Paul Marinko | 09 April 2026

The chair of the Local Councils Network (LCN) has suggested it seems ‘illogical’ for the County C...

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