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FIRE SAFETY
Kensington & Chelsea launches standards drawn up with residents
By Ann McGauran | 28 September 2023
Kensington and Chelsea LBC has become the first council to publish service standards co-designed ...
WHITEHALL
Home Office warned over asylum targets
By Mark Conrad | 26 September 2023
Councils have warned the Home Office not to impose unrealistic targets for asylum and resettlemen...
WHITEHALL
Pension consultants ramp up opposition to pooling reforms
By Dan Peters | 25 September 2023
Council pension consultants have intensified opposition to Whitehall’s plan for a single model fo...
FINANCE
Ministers turn down Tandridge capitalisation bid
By Mark Conrad | 22 September 2023
Ministers have refused requests for a capitalisation direction at Tandridge DC as they said effor...
PLANNING
Peers approve levelling up Bill
By Mark Conrad | 22 September 2023
Peers have approved the amended Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill – leaving ministers seeking a ...
WHITEHALL
Screeching U-turn on waste proposals
By Dan Peters | 21 September 2023
The Government has claimed it is scrapping its ‘top-down approach’ on recycling while still ensur...
WHITEHALL
Bentley insists level two devolution 'best option' for county
By Dan Peters | 21 September 2023
Essex CC’s Conservative leader Kevin Bentley has insisted that a level two devolution deal is the...
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental regulations holding back housebuilding
By Martin Ford | 21 September 2023
Laws such as those requiring nutrient neutrality in housing developments have resulted in ‘effect...
WHITEHALL
Gove announces five-year Brum intervention
By Mark Conrad | 19 September 2023
Communities secretary Michael Gove today announced a five-year Government intervention at Birming...
WHITEHALL
Government accused of 'paralysing' councils on waste
By Dan Peters | 19 September 2023
The Government has been accused of leaving frustrated councils ‘paralysed’ by ‘painfully slow’ pr...
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