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PLANNING
District plea over planning powers
By Neil Merrick | 13 August 2025
District councils have appealed to ministers not to leave them out of planning decisions once fre...
DIGITAL
Calls for AI ethics and data ethics boards
By Dan Peters | 13 August 2025
Calls have been made for all councils to form artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and data ethics...
WHITEHALL
EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG tells councils not to use public funds to win unitary argument
By Dan Peters | 12 August 2025
Senior Whitehall mandarins have reminded councils not to use public funds to persuade residents t...
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...
FINANCE
IFS: Inner London to lose from fair funding reforms
By William Eichler | 07 August 2025
Inner London is expected to be the biggest loser ‘by far’ from the Government’s proposed fair fun...
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...
POLICY
Call for tourism tax to help reverse austerity
By Izzy Lepone | 06 August 2025
The introduction of a tourist tax would help reverse austerity’s ‘heavy toll’ on councils, the Au...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Putting the spotlight on place
By Ann McGauran | 06 August 2025
The Government is pushing on with a flurry of policy reforms, but leader of the sector’s place di...
REORGANISATION
Politics and pragmatism
By Andy Sawford | 06 August 2025
Andy Sawford asks who really shapes local government reorganisation, and looks at what proposals ...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Fire and rehire advice behind director's suspension
By Dan Peters | 01 August 2025
A dispute over a controversial fire and rehire tactic is at the centre of the suspension of a Wor...
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