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HOUSING
New planning powers for councils
By Martin Ford | 27 May 2025
Councils will be able to fine developers or confiscate land if homes are not built under new powe...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Ministers accused of 'centralising zeal'
By Martin Ford | 19 May 2025
Ministers have been accused of ‘taking away decision-making powers from local people’ in a new am...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: Overcoming opposition to deliver infrastructure
By Tom Osborne | 18 May 2025
Upgrading infrastructure may be a government policy but it can face huge local opposition. Tom Os...
REGENERATION
Regeneration: Opportunity knocks
By David Blackman | 14 May 2025
David Blackman talks to leading figures about the prospects for regeneration following the propos...
PLANNING
Infrastructure delivery key in new towns programme, professor warns
By Dan Peters | 14 May 2025
Delivering infrastructure will be the key challenge for the Government’s new towns programme, a p...
PLANNING
Attempt to thwart Government 'power grab' defeated
By Martin Ford | 01 May 2025
MPs have accused the Government of a ‘power grab’ enabling ministers to change planning rules.
POLITICS
Call for greater clarity on new towns
By Joe Lepper | 29 April 2025
Ministers need to be clearer about the Government’s new towns agenda, peers have heard.
LEGAL
Council takes legal advice over listed building blaze
By Martin Ford | 29 April 2025
Wiltshire Council is taking legal advice over a fire at a listed building at the centre of a plan...
PLANNING
Planning change labelled 'catastrophic'
By Martin Ford | 25 April 2025
Ministers have been told proposals aimed at speeding up planning approval for infrastructure proj...
PLANNING
Call for caution over land value capture reform
By Martin Ford | 23 April 2025
Experts have urged against wholesale reform of developer contributions despite the flaws within t...
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- April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
- Exclusive: Government 'risks repeating Covid mistakes' in war preparedness
- Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced
- LGR cannot stagger on as a zombie policy
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Director of Digital, Data and Technology
£139,000 per annum
Shape the future of a digitally enabled borough Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care Commissioning
£130,000 per annum
Transforming outcomes through integrated commissioning Apply for this job
Director of Adult Social Care
£145,000 per annum
Leading innovative, strengths-based social care that enables residents to live fulfilling and independent lives Apply for this job
- April 2029 vesting day for all areas as ministers recommit to reorganisation
- Exclusive: Government 'risks repeating Covid mistakes' in war preparedness
- Budget 2026: Fiscal Devolution Roadmap published and new mayors announced
- LGR cannot stagger on as a zombie policy
- Devolution and health: from why to how
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