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Westbrook to decide on reorganisation legal challenge
POLICY AND POLITICS

Westbrook to decide on reorganisation legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2026

The chief executive of Conservative-led Hampshire CC Gary Westbrook will take further advice from Counsel before deciding whether to launch a legal challenge to reorganisation.

POLICY AND POLITICS

40% of West Surrey revenue budget to be absorbed by servicing debt

By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026

Some 40% of one of the new Surrey unitaries’ net revenue budget will be absorbed by servicing deb...

REORGANISATION

How LATCos can solve reorganisation problems

By Simon Fletcher | 11 June 2026

Local government reorganisation is a once-in-a-generation service design moment – and LATCos can ...

COMMUNITIES

Towards a community-powered future

By Anna Randle | 11 June 2026

New Local’s annual festival of community power, Stronger Things, gets under way next week. Anna R...

LEADERSHIP

Broadening the talent pool

By Roger Russell | 10 June 2026

Roger Russell says it is time to start seriously think about improving the process of bringing pr...

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs lobby Government over severance payment threshold

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2026

Council chiefs have been lobbying the Government to relax the requirements around special severan...

LATCOS

LATCo is the answer for merging services – and for disaggregation

By Justin Galliford | 10 June 2026

Norse Group’s Justin Galliford explains how a trading company offers the flexibility to merge ser...

LEADERSHIP

Leading the march to LGR

By Dawn Adey | 10 June 2026

Leading a councils set to disappear through reorganisation is an unusual experience, Dawn Adey ex...

REORGANISATION

Supporting council leadership

By Max Wide | 10 June 2026

A Leadership Centre programme is aimed at helping middle managers forming unitaries to build rela...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Minister urges councils to hand services to residents

By Neil Merrick | 09 June 2026

Placing communities in charge of services will help cut costs and reduce the chance of council fa...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Innovation needs place leadership to deliver lasting growth

By Caroline Green | 08 June 2026

Transformational innovation can drive jobs and prosperity, but only if councils create the condit...

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