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Articles by Joe Lepper
Dithering continues despite Burnham's push for devolution
By By Joe Lepper | 17 September 2026
Joe Lepper finds devolution geographies in many places are far from being settled despite Prime M...
Local government model 'unsustainable'
By Joe Lepper | 16 September 2026
Wales’ current model of local government is ‘unsustainable’ due to growing demand, financial pres...
Concerns over reorganisation delay impact on devolution
By Joe Lepper | 08 September 2026
MPs have raised concerns around the impact that a delay to local government reorganisation (LGR) ...
Healey: Fiscal devolution needed for successful cities
By Joe Lepper | 08 September 2026
Fiscal devolution is needed to ‘transfer power and resources from Whitehall to our regions’, chan...
Deadlock over December deadline
By Joe Lepper | 08 September 2026
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is bullish on enforcing a statutory dea...
Concerns raised over Reform UK council's JCB trial
By Joe Lepper | 08 September 2026
Concerns have been raised over Reform UK-led Suffolk CC’s decision to trial a pothole-fixing mach...
Evict parents of anti-social children, think-tank suggests
By Joe Lepper | 02 September 2026
Social housing tenants who are parents of persistently anti-social children should be evicted fro...
Half of LGA meetings shrouded in secrecy
By Joe Lepper | 11 August 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted it is looking to ‘maximise transparency’ desp...
EXCLUSIVE: LGA redundancies down to just six
By Joe Lepper | 05 August 2026
The Local Government Association (LGA) is now proposing axing just six full time equivalent (FTE)...
Mayors warned over partnership working
By Joe Lepper | 03 August 2026
Mayoral strategic authorities (MSAs) need to improve their partnership working with investors to ...
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