Infrastructure

By Laura Sharman | 25 November 2015

The country’s ‘biggest affordable house building programme since the 1970s’ has been unveiled in ...

WHITEHALL

Spending Review: Transport major plank of Osborne's spending plans

By Dominic Browne | 25 November 2015

Chancellor George Osborne made transport investment a major plank of his spending plans once agai...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Whitehall attitude like 'Soviet Politburo'

By Dan Peters | 20 November 2015

Central government’s refusal to release control over local economies has been compared to the att...

PLANNING

Wavering Waveney

19 November 2015

This week’s strange but true tale of rock and roll colliding with local government comes from the...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Business leaders want councils to have more powers

By MJ reporter | 17 November 2015

Business owners have backed plans to give councils more powers, despite many of them saying they ...

BUSINESS

Atkins boss calls for CAs to work in partnerships

17 November 2015

The UK boss of international engineering firm Atkins has called on combined authorities to work t...

Councils' reserves to set up building firm

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 November 2015

Newcastle City Council is to set up its own trading company as three local authorities in Suffol...

HEALTH

Joint growth report highlights continued central-local gap

03 November 2015

Whitehall must tackle the cultural barriers between local and central government if cities in the...

PENSIONS

LCPF slams 'sudden changes' to outlays for infrastructure

By Dan Peters | 03 November 2015

A local government pension fund director has criticised ‘sudden changes’ in government policy for...

FINANCE

'Grab reforms with both hands' says Sir Merrick

30 October 2015

The former chairman of the Local Government Association has called on the sector’s pension funds ...

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