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FINANCE
LGA cuts warning over accounting rule change
By Dan Peters | 20 January 2025
English councils have warned they may have to make ‘unnecessary cuts’ if the Government pushes ah...
PLANNING
Government changes rules to spot slow planners
By Dan Peters | 17 December 2024
The speed with which councils decide planning applications will be assessed over a shorter time p...
FINANCE
How to do the funding pot pivot
By Sherina Lewis | 05 December 2024
With the autumn Budget promising changes to how local authorities receive funding from central go...
HOUSING
Solving the affordable housing crisis
By Ben Denton | 18 November 2024
Ben Denton says institutional funding from insurers and pension funds can be part of the answer t...
FINANCE
Single South Yorkshire settlement to boost investment
By Dan Peters | 14 November 2024
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority expects to be boosted by the integrated, departmental-...
LEGAL
Thurrock threat to sue other councils after financial collapse
By Dan Peters | 07 November 2024
Debt-laden Thurrock Council has threatened to sue other councils as it legally goes after the Ass...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The ham and eggs approach to growth
By Dr Henry Kippin | 23 October 2024
Last week, the Government produced its Industrial Strategy, but it will need a Budget, devolution...
INVESTMENT
We might be about to hit a sweet spot on regional growth
By By Zoë Billingham | 17 October 2024
Zoë Billingham says not only do our mayors and local leaders hold many of the levers of growth – ...
WALES
Welsh councils facing £559m budget pressure
By Paul Marinko | 11 October 2024
Welsh councils face budget pressures of around £559m next year, the sector’s umbrella organisatio...
FINANCE
LGPS pooling 'must be done in orderly way'
By Emily Twinch | 09 October 2024
The pooling of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets into eight organisations should be d...
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