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WHITEHALL
Rowley increases pressure for high-rise crackdown
By Mark Conrad | 21 February 2024
Housing minister Lee Rowley has urged more councils to tackle rogue owners failing to fix problem...
HIGHWAYS
Night lights, bright lights
20 February 2024
Safety campaigners have criticised hard-up Havering LBC for proposing to dim 4,000 streetlights b...
WHITEHALL
Westminster wheelaround
20 February 2024
What are the chances that Parliament’s Statutory Inquiry Committee’s latest inquiry – into the br...
WALES
Mighty small
20 February 2024
Long-term readers will recall various unexpected bids for city status over the years.
FINANCE
Chiefs: Sector can afford senior pay hike
By Mark Conrad | 20 February 2024
Council chiefs have insisted their pay settlement must match the award for local government staff...
LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE
MPs question Oflog independence
By Martin Ford | 20 February 2024
MPs have questioned whether the Office for Local Government’s (Oflog) work can be ‘truly independ...
HOUSING
Council appeared to be in 'crisis management mode'
By Ellie Ames | 20 February 2024
‘Multiple and repeated’ failures by Hammersmith & Fulham LBC left residents feeling ‘anything but...
BUSINESS
Levelling up requires 'meaningful' devolution, business group says
By William Eichler | 20 February 2024
Business leaders have called for ‘meaningful decision-making powers’ to be devolved to local auth...
FINANCE
Brum proposes £300m cuts
By William Eichler | 20 February 2024
Cash-strapped Birmingham City Council will cut spending on services by £300m to balance its books.
BUSINESS
Council probe leads officers to 'step back'
By Mark Conrad | 19 February 2024
Two senior Guildford and Waverley officers have agreed to temporarily ‘step back’ from their role...
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