Local authority expenditure on Covid-19 dropped in August to £567m, down from £594m in July, according to latest statistics from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Proposed restrictions on borrowing from the Public Works Loan Board should be dropped to allow district councils to develop new income streams in the wake of Covid-19, the District Councils Network...
High streets are in a state of “emergency” as retail planning applications to district councils in England have nearly halved since 2015, a network group has said.
Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
Creating 27 unitary councils across the whole of England could save as much as £2.9bn, according to an independent analysis of local government reorganisation options undertaken for the County...
District councils are calling for the same freedoms to increase council tax as social care authorities in order to boost prevention and tackle health inequalities.
District councils have called for process by which local plans are adopted to be overhauled through improved scrutiny and the creation of a national list of development policies.
The government’s plan to let councils in England keep 100% of business rates is set to herald a wide-ranging re-examination of Whitehall support to town halls, the local government minister has...
District councils must play a key role in forthcoming devolution deals by agreeing to take on a greater share of the cost of local economic development and early intervention projects, a report has...
Communities secretary Greg Clark has been urged to review the government’s housing policies after research found that only one in eight properties sold under the revamped Right to Buy scheme...
Plans to lower social housing rents by 1% a year for the next four years could lead to as many as 42,000 fewer homes being built across the country, the government has been warned.
