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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA to create Local Government White Paper

By Martin Ford | 20 July 2023

The Local Government Association (LGA) is to press ahead with plans for a sector White Paper.

HOUSING

LGA waits on immigration minister meeting

By Martin Ford | 20 July 2023

Local government leaders are awaiting a meeting with ministers as councils struggle to find homes...

FINANCE

Government formally intervenes in Croydon

By Martin Ford | 20 July 2023

Ministers have moved Croydon LBC’s improvement and assurance panel to a statutory footing, meanin...

PLANNING

Government concessions over infrastructure levy

By Martin Ford | 19 July 2023

The Government has offered concessions on its planned infrastructure levy in the face of oppositi...

FINANCE

Councils told to 'step up' on refugee housing

By Martin Ford | 19 July 2023

The Government has told councils to ‘step up’ efforts to provide permanent homes for Afghan refug...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

EXCLUSIVE: Councils' pay performance laid bare

By Martin Ford | 18 July 2023

The time taken by councils to pay their suppliers has been revealed in a campaign group’s new rep...

FINANCE

Government to 'reset' local audit

By Martin Ford | 18 July 2023

Local government minister Lee Rowley said statutory deadlines would be announced in the autumn in...

WHITEHALL

Housing and infrastructure in doubt after funding pulled

By Martin Ford | 17 July 2023

New housing, roads, public transport, green spaces, schools and jobs have been plunged into doubt...

WHITEHALL

Haldane: Levelling up a 'mixed bag'

By Martin Ford | 17 July 2023

Most people have yet to see the fruits of levelling up, according to a key Government adviser.

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Hackney chief to stand down

By Martin Ford | 17 July 2023

Mark Carroll is to step down as chief executive of Hackney LBC at the end of next month.

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