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EXCLUSIVE: Food waste new burdens assessment still not completed
POLICY AND POLITICS

EXCLUSIVE: Food waste new burdens assessment still not completed

By Dan Peters | 09 October 2025

Whitehall has yet to complete a new burdens assessment for introducing separate food waste collections with six months until the policy has to be implemented, The MJ has learnt.

POLICY AND POLITICS

Consensus emerges over statutory climate change duty

By Joe Lepper | 02 October 2025

A ‘clear consensus’ has emerged among councils for the sector to be subject to a statutory climat...

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

Productivity is not nirvana

By Nigel Wilcock | 24 September 2025

Nigel Wilcock challenges traditional economic metrics and outlines how local government can lead ...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

The clock is ticking on climate

By Ian Fytche | 17 September 2025

The climate emergency is the defining challenge of our time, and councils have the mandate, tools...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Tackling the climate crisis

By Darrell Gale | 29 August 2025

Darrell Gale says that given their experience of working in partnership across multiple sectors, ...

POLICY

Councils bite back at food waste recycling rollout plan

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters | 14 August 2025

Councils will not be told how much money they will receive to roll out food waste recycling until...

AIR QUALITY

Making the school run safer

By Jemima Hartshorn | 11 August 2025

More than three quarters of School Streets in London are either breaking even or generating incom...

ENVIRONMENT

Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets

By Dan Peters | 07 August 2025

Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admi...

NET ZERO

Warning over scrapping net zero targets

By Martin Ford | 29 July 2025

Councillors have been warned that attempts to ditch net zero targets could be stymied by Governme...

ENVIRONMENT

Wiltshire Council votes to retain carbon targets

By Izzy Lepone | 25 July 2025

Wiltshire Council has rejected a motion to ditch the local authority’s carbon reduction targets.

NET ZERO

The role of private finance on the road towards net zero

By Ed Barlow | 16 June 2025

Seven years ago, climate change lacked the prominence it holds today. Many councils were active b...

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Head of Chief Executive's Office

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