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Neil Merrick

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Find finance fix

By Neil Merrick | 23 July 2025

MPs call for authorities to be given immediate powers to revalue properties ahead of full review ...

Peers pass fire and hire exemption

By Heather Jameson | 22 July 2025

Councils with financial problems that are placed under government intervention may be exempt from...

Fresh criticism of Home Office on asylum

By Neil Merrick | 22 July 2025

Relations between councils and the Home Office soured further this week after the department was ...

'Community power key to pushing out populism'

By Neil Merrick | 21 July 2025

More participatory democracy and a genuine transfer of power to neighbourhoods and communities is...

Councils back three mainland unitaries

By Neil Merrick | 21 July 2025

Hampshire CC and East Hampshire DC have backed three unitary mainland councils, with the Isle of ...

CCN: Tourist tax would raise more than £200m

By Neil Merrick | 15 July 2025

County councils in England could potentially raise more than £200m each year by levying a £2 per ...

Councils fear riots repeat

By Neil Merrick | 15 July 2025

Councils fear a repeat of last summer’s riots without ‘significant government investment in commu...

Fears over lack of teeth behind mandatory reporting duty

By Neil Merrick | 14 July 2025

Government plans to make it a mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse need to be backed up wi...

Lancashire moves closer to reorganisation agreement

By By Neil Merrick | 12 June 2025

Councils in Lancashire are edging closer to an agreement on reorganisation, but it is likely to b...

Sale delay after tax premium change

By Neil Merrick | 12 June 2025

Properties are taking much longer to sell in areas with a large number of second homes as local a...