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FINANCE
LGA faces financial headache
By Chris Mahony | 25 January 2019
Smith Square has acknowledged the financial challenges it faces as it freezes subscriptions while...
WHITEHALL
LGA backs deprivation in fair funding row
By Dan Peters | 23 January 2019
The Local Government Association (LGA) has broken its silence to back the importance of deprivati...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: No-deal Brexit funding call
By Dan Peters | 23 January 2019
Smith Square has pushed Marsham Street to provide funding for councils to implement their no-deal...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Right to Buy can be the right way ahead
By Heather Jameson | 23 January 2019
In future, Right to Buy can only be the right thing to do if homes are replaced – otherwise it’s ...
WHITEHALL
Monitoring officer review call
By Dan Peters | 22 January 2019
The organisation representing legal and governance council officers is to push for a Government r...
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES
Government defends Right to Buy against call for abolition
By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019
A top Marsham Street official has defended the Government’s Right to Buy policy as ‘good value fo...
FINANCE
Government concern over investments focused on two or three councils
By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019
Marsham Street is ‘worried’ about ‘two or three’ councils’ commercial ventures, civil servants ha...
FINANCE
Whitehall stalled for year prior to Northamptonshire intervention
By Martin Ford | 22 January 2019
The Government waited for more than a year before intervening over Northamptonshire CC’s financia...
FINANCE
Met councils' chair says proposed changes to funding formula 'grossly unfair'
By Ann McGauran | 21 January 2019
The chair of the Special Interest Group of Metropolitan Authorities (SIGOMA) has written to Jame...
WHITEHALL
Buckinghamshire districts threaten legal action over unitary plan
By Dan Peters | 21 January 2019
Two Buckinghamshire districts have written to the Government warning they could launch legal proc...
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