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BUSINESS

Biffa awarded six-year extension worth £18m

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2016

Municipal services contractor Biffa has been awarded a six-year extension to its current contract...

FINANCE

Keep your eyes on the financial settlement

By Graeme McDonald | 12 January 2016

Business rate retention, a four-year indicative budget and recognition of spiralling social care ...

FINANCE

It's a whole new century

12 January 2016

News reaches Diary by carrier pigeon that Broxtowe BC may not yet be in the 21st century – 16 yea...

FINANCE

Under pressure

By Thomas Bridge | 12 January 2016

Councils were working hard over Christmas to deal with devastating flooding. Yet serious concerns...

WHITEHALL

Council leader sceptical about flooding help

By Dan Peters | 05 January 2016

The leader of a flooding-hit West Yorkshire council has blamed a media-attention divide between n...

BUSINESS

Data protection stops flooding help

By Dan Peters | 18 December 2015

A council-backed business support programme in Cumbria has refused to disclose a list of flood-af...

ENVIRONMENT

Council 'first in Europe' to be carbon neutral

By Dan Peters | 18 December 2015

Stroud DC is thought to have become the first carbon neutral council in Europe.

WHITEHALL

Whitehall must help pay flood victims' insurance costs

By Sam Clayden | 16 December 2015

The South Lakeland DC leader has insisted it is the Government’s responsibility to help flood vic...

BUSINESS

Serco will keep council contracts

By Dan Peters | 16 December 2015

Troubled outsourcing firm Serco this week reversed a decision to sell off its environmental servi...

FINANCE

£50m government flood fund will be controlled by councils

By Thomas Bridge | 08 December 2015

A £50m government scheme to help with repairs following the floods in Cumbria and Lancashire CCs ...

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frederica-diamanta

Executive Director - Growth, Enterprise and Environment

£139,111.00 (pay award pending)

Premium jobThis is a chance to make a significant difference to the lives of families across our borough – and to seriously improve your quality of life. Apply for this job

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council

Assistant Director of Regeneration and Economic Development

Up to £111,000

You will be responsible for overseeing area based regeneration programmes. Apply for this job

London Borough of Hackney Council

Executive Director, Home and Communities

£160-200k p.a.

At Camden, we don’t just deliver services — we work alongside communities to challenge injustice and drive real social change. Apply for this job

Camden London Borough Council