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Councils to call for tighter HMO controls

By Neil Merrick | 02 October 2025

Councils are expected to call for tighter controls over houses in multiple occupation (HMO) after...

LGA: Outcomes framework should be expanded

By Neil Merrick | 30 September 2025

A proposed framework for assessing the effectiveness of councils should be expanded to cover all ...

LGA: Councils need more than a decade to reach decent homes standard

By Neil Merrick | 24 September 2025

Councils should be given up to 12 years to bring social housing up to an enhanced decent homes st...

Dorset hopes to recover potential contract fraud losses

By Neil Merrick | 23 September 2025

A council that sacked 11 interim officers over the potential mismanagement of a multi-million pou...

Reorganisation threat to district services

By Neil Merrick | 23 September 2025

Services provided by district councils must not become an early casualty of local government reor...

Regen scheme problems double cost of scheme

By Neil Merrick | 03 September 2025

Poor communication between council departments and high staff turnover have been blamed for major...

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh law to boost mayoral scrutiny

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Neil Merrick | 03 September 2025

The Government will propose more legislation to enhance the scrutiny and accountability of mayors...

Coalition calls for planning law change

By Neil Merrick | 01 September 2025

Ministers have been urged to change the law to reduce the number of non-residential buildings tur...

ARCH plea to increase rent cap

By Neil Merrick | 01 September 2025

Councils should be able to raise tenants’ rents by up to £3 per week on top of any inflation-link...

Scottish care kids failing to attend school

By Neil Merrick | 27 August 2025

An increasing proportion of children in local authority care in Scotland are failing to attend sc...