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Call for rethink over 'flawed' investment crackdown

By Dan Peters | 09 December 2016

Disappointed council leaders have called for a rethink of ‘flawed’ proposals that could ‘severely...

PLANNING

New funding and strategy for rundown estates

By Dan Peters | 08 December 2016

New government funding to help breathe new life into rundown estates has been announced, along wi...

FINANCE

100% rates retention branded 'irrelevant'

By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016

Returning business rates to the sector is ‘irrelevant,’ two members of the Layfield Commission on...

WHITEHALL

DCLG rates rethink leaves LEPs in limbo

By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016

The Government could row back from plans to give business members on local enterprise partnership...

FINANCE

Javid intervention expected after fresh unitary bid

By Dan Peters | 06 December 2016

Communities secretary Sajid Javid plans to wade into the local government reorganisation row in B...

FINANCE

Future Forum North: 'Devolution deals may not be for whole country'

By Dan Peters | 03 December 2016

Local Government Association chief executive Mark Lloyd has publicly accepted for the first time ...

WHITEHALL

Future Forum North: 'Absolute prize' is fiscal devolution

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2016

Liverpool City Council’s chief executive Ged Fitzgerald has urged his colleagues to remember the ...

BUSINESS

Future Forum North: Consultant's call to shorten recruitment process

By Dan Peters | 01 December 2016

Local government may need to refine its lengthy recruitment process to attract the highest calibr...

WHITEHALL

Chorley calls for fresh look at unitaries

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2016

Chorley BC has made a renewed call for ‘radical changes to the structures of local government’ in...

BUSINESS

English authorities' rate collections up by 3.7%

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2016

The amount English councils collected from business rates in 2015/16 increased by 3.7% or £804m o...

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