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POLITICS

Homelessness minister quits to avoid becoming 'distraction'

By Dan Peters | 08 August 2025

Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali has quit the Government following allegations she evicted ten...

MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates cohesion taskforce

By Dan Peters | 06 August 2025

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has created a taskforce to unde...

LEGISLATION

Legislation and investment to boost cladding remediation

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2025

Thousands of buildings with unsafe cladding are expected to be fixed faster thanks to fresh legis...

RESILIENCE

EXCLUSIVE: Resilience warning over shelter and evacuation plans

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2025

Emergency shelter and evacuation plans may be insufficient in a worst-case scenario crisis, Local...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

LGA: Eliminating conflict between councils and combined authorities unrealistic

By Joe Lepper | 07 July 2025

Eliminating conflict between councils and mayoral combined authorities (MCA) is unrealistic, the ...

REGULATION

EXCLUSIVE: Government turns to councils for extra building inspector capacity

By Emily Twinch | 30 June 2025

The Government has turned to councils for extra building inspector capacity as high-rise housing ...

REORGANISATION

McMahon: No intention to delay reorganisation

By Dan Peters | 25 June 2025

The Government has ‘no intention to delay at all the local government reorganisation process’, mi...

HOUSING

Government to create national housing bank

By Joe Lepper | 17 June 2025

A national housing bank will be created by the Government to help finance the building of 500,000...

REORGANISATION

Reorganisation savings warning

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2025

The most senior district councillor in the country has warned it could take up to a decade before...

REORGANISATION

Crawley pauses on West Sussex reorganisation

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2025

West Sussex’s Crawley BC will wait for ministers to decide on Surrey’s reorganisation proposals b...