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Westbrook to decide on reorganisation legal challenge
POLICY AND POLITICS

Westbrook to decide on reorganisation legal challenge

By Dan Peters | 12 June 2026

The chief executive of Conservative-led Hampshire CC Gary Westbrook will take further advice from Counsel before deciding whether to launch a legal challenge to reorganisation.

POLICY AND POLITICS

40% of West Surrey revenue budget to be absorbed by servicing debt

By Dan Peters | 11 June 2026

Some 40% of one of the new Surrey unitaries’ net revenue budget will be absorbed by servicing deb...

LEADERSHIP

Broadening the talent pool

By Roger Russell | 10 June 2026

Roger Russell says it is time to start seriously think about improving the process of bringing pr...

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Chiefs lobby Government over severance payment threshold

By Dan Peters | 10 June 2026

Council chiefs have been lobbying the Government to relax the requirements around special severan...

LATCOS

LATCo is the answer for merging services – and for disaggregation

By Justin Galliford | 10 June 2026

Norse Group’s Justin Galliford explains how a trading company offers the flexibility to merge ser...

REORGANISATION

Supporting council leadership

By Max Wide | 10 June 2026

A Leadership Centre programme is aimed at helping middle managers forming unitaries to build rela...

COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK

EXCLUSIVE: Counties to take concerns to top

By EXCLUSIVE by Dan Peters and Joe Lepper | 28 May 2026

The County Councils Network (CCN) was this week preparing to take its concerns about local govern...

LOCAL COUNCILS NETWORK

Looking out for the local

By Paul Marinko | 27 May 2026

Helping the Local Councils Network’s members and officers to manage the disruption of moving to a...

REORGANISATION

Children's services: Navigating the challenge of LGR

By Emmet Regan | 27 May 2026

Emmet Regan says that as the next stages of local government reorganisation get underway, the ro...

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Whitehall delay to reorganisation legislation

By Dan Peters | 13 May 2026

Reform UK vows to ‘be awkward’ to thwart government plans for local government reorganisation.

REORGANISATION

Exclusive: District disaggregation requires 'properly thought through plan'

By Ann McGauran | 13 May 2026

A ‘properly thought through plan' with realistic timescales is needed if ministers are to press a...

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