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CLIMATE CHANGE

Energy strategy to bring about planning overhaul

By Martin Ford | 07 April 2022

The Government is to reform planning regulations in the hope of boosting the nation’s energy supply.

ENERGY

Reform would help more councils achieve their ambitious targets and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels

By Kathy O’Leary | 06 April 2022

The 2021 revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework missed the opportunity to remove exi...

ENERGY

White van man on... energy security

30 March 2022

Let’s face it, all this climate change stuff is a dead duck. At this rate, if the price of gas ke...

HOUSING

Think big, act local, start now

By Paul O’Brien | 29 March 2022

Communities will look to their local authority for further support with the cost of living crisis...

POVERTY

Future Forum North: local government still lacks a plan for delivering sustainability

By Ann McGauran | 25 March 2022

Local government still lacks both a plan for delivering sustainability and a way of measuring the...

FINANCE

Councils weigh up risks over Gazprom contracts

By Paul Marinko | 22 March 2022

Councils caught up in energy deals with state-owned Russian gas company Gazprom have been warned ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Blazing the path to net zero

By Ben Simcock | 15 March 2022

Ben Simcock discusses how government-funded decarbonisation schemes are trailblazing change.

FINANCE

Local authorities will be able to top up council tax rebate

By Martin Ford | 11 March 2022

Local authorities will be able to pay households facing financial hardship more than the council ...

BUSINESS

Councils rethink £30m of Gazprom spending

By William Eichler | 03 March 2022

Councils are reconsidering the multi-million pound contracts they have with the state-owned Russi...

ENERGY

Net zero culture war

By Jonathan Werran | 02 March 2022

A localist and levelling up aligned approach to decarbonisation is all that stands between us and...

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