The top-down national government approach to skills provision is not working. It is time for loca...
CCN chairman Cllr David Hodge laments last week's Autumn Statement, in which counties were left i...
The Government’s city-centric devolution agenda spells economic oblivion for county areas which a...
A Conservative MP will today call for the Planning Inspectorate to be scrapped to help protect vi...
Treasurer of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Frances Foster, on the unfairne...
The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed major reforms designed to speed up house building and the...
A £15bn spending plan for the strategic road network was at the heart of the infrastructure strat...
Andrew Carter suggests some of the brave next steps a chancellor should commit to in seeking to b...
Districts and counties have similar priorities, and collaboration is key, writes Lawrence Conway.
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