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BUSINESS RATES

Councils hit with burden of creating rates relief schemes

By Dan Peters | 17 May 2017

District councils are having to come up with separate discretionary business rates relief schemes...

FINANCE

Tories reveal local government approach in manifesto

By Dan Peters | 16 May 2017

The Conservatives have revealed a raft of policies on social care, business rates, devolution, ho...

BUSINESS RATES

Rates increase warning after empty shops increase

By Mark Conrad | 15 May 2017

Scotland’s retailers have warned policymakers against a hike in business rates beyond the Barclay...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall urged to referee sector's NHS disputes over rates relief

By Dan Peters | 10 May 2017

Shadow minister Jim McMahon has called for the Government to intervene in the dispute between cou...

WHITEHALL

Sector doubts over future plan as 100% rates retention is put on ice

By Dan Peters | 02 May 2017

Dissent over 100% business rates retention is growing in the sector after it was put on ice by th...

WHITEHALL

The next PM must deliver on pledges to boost council autonomy

02 May 2017

Whichever party wins the General elections, they must deliver on promises made to increase autono...

FINANCE

Doomed to success?

By Jonathan Werran | 26 April 2017

The snap election has shunted full business rates retention into the sidings. But does the sector...

FINANCE

The sector must be heard

By Mark Rogers | 26 April 2017

Mark Rogers says campaigning in the run-up to June’s General Election and the ongoing Brexit proc...

WHITEHALL

'Delay rollout of 100% rates retention by at least a year'

By Dan Peters | 26 April 2017

The rollout of 100% business rates retention should be pushed back by at least a year, the chair ...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Business rates retention future 'unclear'

By Mark Conrad | 24 April 2017

A think-tank has questioned whether plans for 100% business rates retention will make it back ont...

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Ashfield District Council

Group Leader – Plans, Policies & Place Making

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Charnwood Borough Council

Chief Executive

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