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HOUSING

Warmer Homes London: A blueprint for greener, healthier, and fairer communities

By Brenda Dacres | 10 September 2025

Mete Coban and Brenda Dacres explain how Warmer Homes London is uniting boroughs, housing provide...

REFORM UK CONFERENCE

Reform council leaders set out 'clean up' achievements

By Ann McGauran | 06 September 2025

The leaders of four Reform UK controlled county councils took to the platform at their national p...

ENERGY

Why local authorities are key to the UK's energy future

By Dr Sivachidambaram Pichumani | 11 August 2025

As the UK phases out the use of fossil fuels, Dr Sivachidambaram Pichumani presents a decision-ma...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Expect a long wait until councils hit net zero

By Heather Jameson | 08 August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

Not zero: Core cities admit they will fail to hit ambitious climate targets

By Dan Peters | 07 August 2025

Core cities have called for billions of pounds of investment to transition to net zero after admi...

NET ZERO

Warning over scrapping net zero targets

By Martin Ford | 29 July 2025

Councillors have been warned that attempts to ditch net zero targets could be stymied by Governme...

ENVIRONMENT

Wiltshire Council votes to retain carbon targets

By Izzy Lepone | 25 July 2025

Wiltshire Council has rejected a motion to ditch the local authority’s carbon reduction targets.

POLITICS

Reform's Kent finds 'millions of pounds' of savings

By Dan Peters | 11 July 2025

Kent CC’s Department for Local Government Efficiency (DOLGE) has identified ‘millions of pounds w...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Net zero agenda 'stalling' in councils

By Ann McGauran | 17 June 2025

The net zero agenda in local government is ‘stalling’, a campaign group has warned.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Settling old scores

By Annie Pickering | 17 June 2025

Annie Pickering says the second year of the Council Climate Action Scorecards reveals that more l...