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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 | 13 June 2023
Council finances are fragile after 13 years of cuts and an extended period of uncertainty, and mu...
BUSINESS
Labour pledges to revitalise high streets
By Mark Conrad | 12 April 2023
Labour will today promote its plan to revitalise ailing high streets through a £700m fund to help...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Giant county unitaries run counter to people power
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 30 March 2023
The challenge to the new unitaries is to prove that, far from being a distant monolith, they can ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Budget 2023: The austerity elephant
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 17 March 2023
Forced cutbacks and savings from councils over the next few years risk outweighing the new regene...
FINANCE
Future Forum: LGA hopeful over finance reform
By Martin Ford | 16 March 2023
Hopes for a large-scale reform of council funding have been raised by the Budget, according to a ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Budget 2023: Hunt to boost mayors' financial autonomy
By Dan Peters | 15 March 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced the Government will ‘boost mayors’ financial autonomy’ in hi...
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