A £9m Greener City Fund has been launched as part of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ambition to transform the capital into the world’s first National Park City.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has given the green light to London’s Crossrail 2 project, infuriating northern councils who only a few days earlier saw key rail electrification projects...
April’s business rate revaluation will see £400m transferred from London councils to authorities in the North, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government should postpone forthcoming increases in business rates until the UK has left the European Union in order to protect businesses at a time of economic uncertainty, according to one...
The trust responsible for the delivery of the Garden Bridge in London has issued a grave warning about the financial health of the scheme, raising fears that it may be cancelled.
CIPFA is to provide data analytics services to the London Counter Fraud Hub to help tackle unpaid council tax, illegal property letting and unpaid business rates across the capital.
Sadiq Khan is to reconvene the London Finance Commission in order to develop beefed-up fiscal devolution plans for the capital following the Brexit vote.
Local authority treasurer societies can pack a punch, says Duncan Whitfield, Southwark Council’s finance director, given the resilience and resourcefulness of the profession
London’s deputy mayor for policy and planning has called on ministers to “move as quickly as possible” on the localisation of business rates to local government, which he said would...
London needs the same fiscal powers as Scotland and the control over health and social care that has been promised to Manchester. The capital can’t be left out of devolution.
Labour’s John Biggs has won the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets, which became vacant after former mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral fraud and removed from office.
The proposed Garden Bridge across the Thames is an object lesson in how political initiatives can rub up against technocratic process. Reforming EU procurement legislation could allow big ideas to...
With all the talk of a Northern Powerhouse, Jules Pipe fears the capital is missing out. The London Councils chair talks to PF about devolution deals, house prices, Hackney and working with Boris
Eric Pickles has proposed extending the government’s intervention in Tower Hamlets to cover all of the council’s executive functions, following a court judgement that removed elected...
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said the government’s decision to send commissioners into Tower Hamlets has been justified after mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of electoral...
Amid a changing municipal landscape, local enterprise partnerships, business improvement districts and businesses themselves need to take a lead on developing reforms to the out-of-date system of...
The Public Finance team were very shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of our former colleague Nick Mann following an accident on the London Underground network at the weekend.
