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Chief retires as leader demands change

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2019

South Cambridgeshire DC’s nine-month-old Lib Dem administration has announced that chief executiv...

EXCLUSIVE: Sector fumes over lack of pre-Brexit briefing

By Dan Peters | 21 February 2019

Councils have threatened to walk away from Government attempts to engage with them on Brexit amid...

Tory leader accuses Government of meddling

By Dan Peters | 20 February 2019

The leader of Wycombe DC has claimed Government meddling is making creating a single unitary for ...

Highways England criticised over Brexit co-operation

By Dan Peters | 20 February 2019

The chief executive of Essex CC has expressed frustration that Highways England is refusing to sh...

NAO to probe council commercialisation

By Dan Peters | 20 February 2019

Local authority commercialisation will further come under the spotlight, with the National Audit ...

The final countdown

By Dan Peters | 19 February 2019

Dan Peters reports on how local authorities are making contingency plans for Brexit while also en...

DCN calls for rates retention delay

By Dan Peters | 19 February 2019

The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has called for a one-year delay in the implementation of 75%...

Campaigners press for audit legislation review

By Dan Peters | 15 February 2019

Campaigners have pressed for review of the five-year-old Local Audit and Accountability Act to en...

Cook boils over about 'crippling' uncertainty

By Dan Peters | 15 February 2019

Stockton-on-Tees BC’s leader, Cllr Bob Cook, has damned the ‘crippling’ uncertainty surrounding h...

Concerns raised over waste consultation length

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2019

Concerns have been raised that the consultation period on three major pieces of policy could be s...