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WHITEHALL

Planning system 'favours developers' over communities

By Mark Conrad | 11 January 2017

Three-quarters of councillors believe the planning system is too weighted in favour of developers...

FINANCE

Caerphilly pay rise scandal costs to exceed £2.5m

By James Evison | 10 January 2017

The full cost of the senior officer pay scandal at Caerphilly CBC will top £2.5m, the local autho...

FINANCE

Looming elections raise doubts over use of social care precept

By James Evison | 09 January 2017

A half-a-billion pound ‘black hole’ in adult social care budgets could be created because of loom...

HEALTH

WLGA chief warns of council mergers

By Dan Peters | 09 January 2017

The chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association has warned that the rising cost of ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

High Court: Council right to approve fracking

By Laura Sharman | 20 December 2016

Fracking will be allowed to take place in North Yorkshire after the High Court ruled the county c...

FINANCE

'Long-term national solution' still needed to solve social care crisis

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2016

The sector and experts have argued that the announcement that an extra £900m will be made availab...

FINANCE

Sharing a chief 'beneficial for taxpayers'

By James Evison | 13 December 2016

A decision by two district councils to share a chief executive has delivered ‘significant benefit...

WHITEHALL

Government to hand licensing powers back to Rotherham

By Dan Peters | 13 December 2016

Powers over licensing including taxi services will be handed back to Rotherham MBC as part of a ‘...

WHITEHALL

We want a unitary call is too simple

By Chris Sinnott | 05 December 2016

Chorley BC’s director of policy and governance, Chris Sinnott, on why his council’s latest reorga...

HEALTH

Still time for social care

By Ray Puddifoot | 29 November 2016

The chancellor has failed to address the acute social care pressures facing councils but the Gove...

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