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PLANNING
The Planning Inspectorate – Will it win its technology race?
By Jasmine Ratta | 05 May 2020
COVID-19 is driving the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) to modernise, says Jasmine Ratta. She hopes ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
A united unitary
By Martin Tett | 21 April 2020
Buckinghamshire Council leader Cllr Martin Tett talks about the successes of launching the countr...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Creating the rainbow together
By Dr Andrew Larner is chief executive of the Improvement & Efficiency Social Enterprise (iESE), which supports public sector transformation | 21 April 2020
Councils' response to COVID-19 has been phenomenal, says Dr Andrew Larner - and he hopes that Gov...
PLANNING
Technology delivers democracy in Waltham Forest during the COVID-19 emergency
By Martin Esom | 14 April 2020
Martin Esom outlines how Waltham Forest became the first council to pilot its monthly planning co...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Experts seek clarification on virtual meetings regulations
By Ann McGauran | 06 April 2020
Councils should give five working days’ notice for virtual meetings or use normal urgency procedu...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Councils given power to hold meetings remotely
By Laura Sharman | 03 April 2020
Local authorities will be allowed to hold public meetings remotely by video or telephone under ne...
WHITEHALL
Video conferencing first at council meeting
By Dan Peters | 02 April 2020
A council used software to help decide key planning applications in what is believed to be the fi...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Changes to governance structures are needed in a time of pandemic
By Helen McGrath | 31 March 2020
Decision making is a pressing concern facing local government lawyers due to the evolving pandemi...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
A powerful light at the end of the tunnel
By Donna Hall | 25 March 2020
These are the most challenging times most of us have lived through, says Donna Hall – and ‘we can...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
How are councils responding the COVID-19 crisis?
By Neil McInroy | 24 March 2020
CLES is collecting details of local authorities’ innovative and exceptional measures to support p...
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