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CLIMATE CHANGE
Government must engage with councils on climate action
By Martin Ford | 29 October 2021
MPs have called for the Government to ‘immediately’ begin working with councils on setting out th...
HOUSING
Budget 2021: £24bn multi-year housing settlement
By Laura Sharman | 27 October 2021
The chancellor has today announced £11.5bn to build up to 180,000 new affordable homes, calling i...
SOLACE
Let's take our chance to get things right on the health gap
By Gill Kneller | 26 October 2021
Ten years after Professor Marmot’s initial report the health gap has grown, says Gill Kneller. Al...
WHITEHALL
Councils offer almost 1,000 properties in Afghan asylum drive
By Dan Peters | 25 October 2021
Councils have offered almost 1,000 properties to support the resettlement and relocation of Afgha...
WHITEHALL
Place making and net-zero 'key tenets' in planning reforms
22 October 2021
Place making, net-zero and good design will be priorities for the Government's planning reforms, ...
WHITEHALL
Gove: Planning reform not off the agenda
By Dan Peters | 21 October 2021
New housing secretary Michael Gove has warned councillors that the idea of reforming the planning...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Call for new zero-carbon powers
By Dan Peters | 21 October 2021
The leader of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Lib Dem group has called for councils to b...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Lagging behind the retrofit challenge
By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2021
We risk deepening a divide between rich and poor and different parts of the compass unless we loc...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Town centres reimagined
By Richard Sterling | 20 October 2021
There is no better time to start the complex and ever-evolving challenge of reinventing town cent...
HEALTH
Building quality of life
By Sadie Morgan OBE | 20 October 2021
Sadie Morgan explains the role of the built environment on our health and wellbeing, and how plan...
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£188,576 - £201,902 (pay award pending)
Join us for a rare opportunity to lead one of the UK’s newest and most ambitious councils Apply for this job
Finance Development Accountant
Band I (£55,609 to £59,025)
Sandwell Council’s Finance Division is seeking a proactive Finance Development Accountant on a full-time permanent basis Apply for this job
LGR Programme Director
Up to £120k
This is a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of local government in Worcestershire. Apply for this job
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