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DCLG

Christchurch in bid to stop unitary plans

By Laura Sharman | 04 January 2018

Christchurch BC has warned it could take legal action if the Government forces it to merge with B...

FINANCE

Javid backs district council mergers

By Dan Peters | 30 November 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has backed two further local government reorganisation proposal...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Lumbering LEPs and a rethink on mayors

By Heather Jameson | 29 November 2017

Heather Jameson argues the Industrial Strategy white paper will end up with confused mosaic of st...

REORGANISATION

The reorganisation bandwagon rolls on

By Michael Burton | 22 November 2017

Reorganisation has to deliver a solution to a problem, rather than being an end in itself, writes...

WHITEHALL

Javid rejects DCLG capacity fears

By Michael Burton | 21 November 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has rejected accusations that his Whitehall department is too s...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

Why we need new forms of local government in two-tier areas

By Martin Hill | 20 November 2017

Fresh off the back of a new report, Cllr Martin Hill argues the case for the creation of county u...

REORGANISATION

Counties and districts clash over new report

By Dan Peters | 17 November 2017

A war of words has broken out between the two tiers of English local government after a report sa...

FINANCE

MP attacks 'merger most foul'

By Dan Peters | 15 November 2017

A MP has vowed to stop plans to create a super-district, labelling it a ‘merger most foul’.

REORGANISATION

East Suffolk - a decade in the making

By Stephen Baker | 13 November 2017

After the Government finally gave the nod to Suffolk Coastal and Waveney DCs' merger proposals, S...

REORGANISATION

Dorset unitaries first step of renewed Government focus on reorganisation

By Mark Conrad | 07 November 2017

Communities secretary Sajid Javid this week kick-started a fresh wave of local government reorgan...

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