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MP intervenes in Local Plan

By Dan Peters | 15 November 2017

Stevenage BC has today expressed its disappointment after an intervention from its MP put its dra...

MP attacks 'merger most foul'

By Dan Peters | 15 November 2017

A MP has vowed to stop plans to create a super-district, labelling it a ‘merger most foul’.

Interim chief executive threatens legal action

By Dan Peters | 14 November 2017

Slough Council’s interim chief executive has threatened to take out an injunction and seek damage...

Transformation call as areas miss targets

By Dan Peters | 14 November 2017

A health expert has called for a ‘huge investment in transformation’ after more than 100 areas mi...

Slough leader announces independent review into chief's hiring

By Dan Peters | 13 November 2017

Slough Council’s under-pressure leader, Cllr Sohail Munawar, has ordered an independent review in...

Counties lobby for transitional grant extension

By Dan Peters | 10 November 2017

Counties have been lobbying the Government to increase and extend the transitional grant for the ...

Isle of Wight seeks to continue children's services partnership

By Dan Peters | 10 November 2017

Isle of Wight Council will ask to continue its children’s services partnership with Hampshire CC,...

Government housing need model 'too simplistic'

By Dan Peters | 09 November 2017

Councils have criticised the Department for Communities and Local Government’s (DCLG) standard mo...

Corbyn calls for retrofitting of sprinklers

By Dan Peters | 09 November 2017

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on the Government to fund the £1bn cost of retrofitting of...

Call for Gloucestershire CC to 'get its act together'

By Dan Peters | 09 November 2017

Opposition councillors have said the Tory administration at Gloucestershire CC ‘needs to get its ...