SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES

High quality properly funded services must underpin levelling up

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 30 October 2023

Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton says local government funding needs a reset of business rates growth, a...

FINANCE

Councils are heading for the end of the line

By Andrew Blake-Herbert | 30 October 2023

There’s no time to lose. Financial pressure is mounting on councils and, says Andrew Blake-Herber...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Transforming Belfast: the power of innovation-led prosperity

By Sam Markey | 23 October 2023

By aligning strategy and investment, Belfast is increasingly globally visible as an innovation ec...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Throw a lifeline – business rates reform and high streets renewal

By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2023

A fringe panel event in Liverpool next week will focus thinking on what system of business taxati...

WHITEHALL

Council finance risk from VOA reclassification

By Struan Walker | 24 August 2023

Council incomes could be hit if a Government agency moves to reclassify asylum hotels as domestic...

FINANCE

A clear medium-term financial plan requires certainty

01 August 2023

Tracy Bingham wonders if many future Best Value failures will be in councils whose circumstances ...

BUSINESS RATES

Government heads off business rates review

By Martin Ford | 21 July 2023

A bid to secure a review of business rates in the House of Lords has failed.

BUSINESS RATES

Combined talents

By Amardeep Gill | 20 June 2023

Combined authorities are the default option for optimal devolution – but Amardeep Gill and Jonath...

WHITEHALL

Councils call for ministers to think 'more radically' on short-term lets

By Mark Conrad | 20 June 2023

Whitehall proposals to regulate short-term holiday lets fail to deliver what is needed to tackle ...

FINANCE

The uncertainty principle

By Sir Stephen Houghton | 12 June 2023

Council finances are fragile after 13 years of cuts and an extended period of uncertainty, and mu...

frederica-diamanta

Head of Operational Services

£73,051 to £75,342

Are you ready to shape the future of a thriving district? Apply for this job

South Derbyshire District Council

Director of Law & Governance

FTE Salary from £92,223 - £112,283 per annum

Sutton is rapidly emerging as a key outer London borough. Apply for this job

Sutton London Borough Council

Assistant Director of Housing

£81,174 – £89,956 per annum (pay award pending), plus relocation support

Reporting to the Director of Housing & Communities, the Assistant Director of Housing will lead York’s Housing portfolio Apply for this job

City of York Council

frederica-diamanta

Head of Operational Services

£73,051 to £75,342

Are you ready to shape the future of a thriving district? Apply for this job

South Derbyshire District Council

Director of Law & Governance

FTE Salary from £92,223 - £112,283 per annum

Sutton is rapidly emerging as a key outer London borough. Apply for this job

Sutton London Borough Council

Assistant Director of Housing

£81,174 – £89,956 per annum (pay award pending), plus relocation support

Reporting to the Director of Housing & Communities, the Assistant Director of Housing will lead York’s Housing portfolio Apply for this job

City of York Council