05 December 2018

District councils face another year of uncertainty as we strive to second guess the Fairer Funding Review, the impact of Brexit and adjust to the automation revolution, writes Allen Graham.

04 December 2018

Changes to planning rules could require developers to provide a ‘biodiversity net gain’ in their plans.

28 November 2018

Staffordshire CC hopes borough and district councils take advantage of the extra borrowing capabilities they now have, and the county is looking at how it can be further involved in the delivery of housing, as Mark Winnington reveals

19 November 2018

The planning system is failing to address public concerns in its current state, a former housing minister has said.

13 November 2018

With the amount of collective resources and brainpower going into the national housebuilding programme, we shouldn’t be faced with a choice between quantity and quality, argues Bob Neill

07 November 2018

Central Government has rewritten the planning rulebook. Now it is up to local authorities to challenge poor quality and ugly developments with their powers to determine what their areas will look like, writes housing minister Kit Malthouse

29 October 2018

Local authorities with high housing demand should be given the freedom to allocate land as single large sites and have powers to control their development, an independent review has concluded.

15 October 2018

Thurrock Council’s leader has threatened a judicial review of Highways England’s plan for a Lower Thames Crossing.

10 October 2018

Councils are the ‘sleeping giant’ of our housing system, as James Brokenshire explains, and now is the time to remove the barriers preventing them from delivering the homes their communities need.

25 September 2018

Senior Labour figures delivered a raft of local government-related policy announcements at their annual conference this week – but questions remain over how to fund fresh promises.

13 September 2018

Increases in land value that result from public policy decisions should be shared with councils instead of ending up in the pockets of private developers, MPs have said.

05 September 2018

Housing minister Kit Malthouse has asked for time for new policies to ‘bed in’ as he was quizzed by MPs.

21 August 2018

Ian Miller gives an overview of the latest decisions and indecisions to affect district councils.

07 August 2018

Council officers are pushing for reforms to the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) regime, claiming caps on land values would speed up the delivery of new housebuilding.

24 July 2018

Leaseholders are enduring a miserable existence with properties rendered worthless because they have similar cladding to the Grenfell Tower. Paul Wheeler calls on the Government to act.

02 July 2018

Ministers should drop plans to ditch social rents from the official definition of affordable homes while Britain continues to struggle to build new council housing, Smith Square has urged.

27 June 2018

Local Government Association chairman Lord Porter outlines his agenda for the next 12 months and reflects on how the events of Grenfell has strengthened his resolve to push for safe, affordable housing for all.

27 June 2018

Lawrence Conway says we must focus on housing needs, not numbers.

21 June 2018

Planning has been ‘downgraded’ in more than eight out of 10 local authorities, town planners have found.

07 June 2018

Troubled department store House of Fraser has pulled out of a major retail development led by Cheshire West & Chester Council.