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WHITEHALL
Income guarantee scheme details awaited
By Dan Peters | 10 August 2020
Councils are still waiting for details of the Government’s much-heralded income guarantee scheme ...
PLANNING
Reforms to fast-track local plans
By Martin Ford | 06 August 2020
Councils will face sanctions unless they draw-up local plans within 30 months under government pr...
ENVIRONMENT
Planning shakeup to 'sideline' councils
By Martin Ford | 03 August 2020
Councils have warned they will be ‘sidelined’ by new planning regulations to be unveiled this week.
FINANCE
Ministers to receive Somerset unitary business case
By Dan Peters | 31 July 2020
A business case for a single Somerset unitary has been sent to communities secretary Robert Jenri...
WHITEHALL
'Small minority' of councils have still not had a corporate peer challenge, report finds
By Dan Peters | 30 July 2020
The Local Government Association (LGA) should consider what further action it could take to encou...
WHITEHALL
'Handful' of councils at risk of Section 114 notices
By Martin Ford | 23 July 2020
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has concerns over a ‘handful’ of counci...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon reaches out for MHCLG lifeline
By Dan Peters | 23 July 2020
Croydon LBC is understood to have made initial contact with the Ministry of Housing, Communities ...
PLANNING
Jenrick 'regrets' Desmond encounter
By Martin Ford | 22 July 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has expressed regret at meeting and exchanging text mes...
FINANCE
Minister hints at leisure centre support
By Martin Ford | 21 July 2020
Further Government support for leisure centres is being looked at following lobbying from councils
PLANNING
A tale of two planning controversies
By Kenneth Carruthers | 13 July 2020
Kenneth Carruthers ponders whether communities secretary Robert Jenrick’s recent planning difficu...
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- Conservatives pledge ban on council four-day work weeks
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