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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Local government in the Land of the Long White Cloud

By Alex Parmley | 15 February 2023

Alex Parmley offers a leadership perspective from a district council in New Zealand, where local ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

The right environment for interim resource?

By Kathryn Reed | 15 February 2023

Kathryn Reed outlines the opportunities and challenges for place based services in 2023. With env...

WHITEHALL

Calls for renewed effort to tackle planning 'image problem'

By Dan Peters | 14 February 2023

Calls have been made for a renewed effort to attract more planners into the profession as it cont...

PLANNING

Election headaches lie ahead

By Ian Miller | 08 February 2023

The requirement to produce voter ID in May 2023 and new rules about handing in postal votes in 20...

PLANNING

Concerns over future housing supply

By Martin Ford | 19 January 2023

Experts have shared doubts over the Government’s approach to planning reform.

PLANNING

Food feud fizzles out

18 January 2023

Regular Diary readers will be familiar with TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s run-in with locals and...

ENVIRONMENT

Local net zero push held back by Government, review finds

By Martin Ford | 13 January 2023

Local authorities’ efforts to achieve net zero are being held back, according to a Government-com...

PLANNING

The planning system needs more resources to thrive

By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 10 January 2023

It isn’t so much the planning system that is broken – more the housing delivery system, says Cllr...

PLANNING

East Lindsey due for court battle

By Martin Ford | 06 January 2023

East Lindsey DC is threatening to become the latest council to take legal action over the use of ...

PLANNING

Transformation stalled at unitary's planning service, peers find

By Martin Ford | 19 December 2022

‘Widespread dissatisfaction’ with enforcement has been uncovered by a peer review of a new unitar...

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frederica-diamanta

Chief of Staff

up to £126,615

We’re transforming services with ambition and community at the heart of our work. Apply for this job

Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Director of People

£108,697 - £117,998

As a leader at Lancashire County Council, you’ll join an authority with real scale, courageous ambition and deep pride in place. Apply for this job

Lancashire County Council

Director of Strategy and Transformation

£108,697 - £117,998

As a leader at Lancashire County Council, you’ll join an authority with real scale, courageous ambition and deep pride in place. Apply for this job

Lancashire County Council