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WHITEHALL

Kent districts urged to drop unitary aims

By Jamie Hailstone | 14 February 2017

Kent CC’s leader has called on the four districts contemplating a merger to distance themselves f...

DEVOLUTION

Time to work together

By Dennis Reed | 14 February 2017

The Government’s combined authority and reorganisation policies clash. Steve Leach and Dennis Ree...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Question time for reorganisation

By Tony Reeves | 08 February 2017

Reorganisation has not been the most welcome word in the local government lexicon in recent years...

REORGANISATION

Districts back county reorganisation plan

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 February 2017

Two district councils have come out in support of Oxfordshire CC’s proposal for a countywide unit...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Porter: Local government threw devolution back in ministers' faces

By Sam Clayden | 02 February 2017

The country’s most influential council leader has proclaimed that ‘devolution is dead’ and sugges...

WHITEHALL

EXCLUSIVE: 'Time to jump-start this devo revolution' – IPPR

By Sam Clayden | 01 February 2017

Ministers have been urged to ditch their ‘bloody-mindedness’ and reboot the stalled devolution pr...

DEVOLUTION

Rebooting devolution takes no more than common sense

By Jack Hunter | 01 February 2017

The devolution agenda has come to a standstill but it can still be revived. Ed Cox and Jack Hunte...

DEVOLUTION

Still time to get it right

By Tony McArdle | 01 February 2017

Decades of feeble attempts to reform the structure of local government has left the map in a mess...

FINANCE

Council vote puts reorganisation bid in doubt

By James Evison | 31 January 2017

Plans for the creation of two unitary authorities in Dorset have been dealt a blow after three co...

FINANCE

Councils back first district merger for 40 years

By Laura Sharman | 30 January 2017

Suffolk Coastal and Waveney DCs have approved plans to formally merge and create a new ‘super dis...

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