The council in the country’s second-largest city has issued a Section 114 notice as it faces down an £87m budget gap this year and an equal pay liability of three-quarters of a billion pounds.
The failure to meet best value duty has forced the government to step up its intervention in the London Borough of Croydon, giving the independent panel a statutory footing.
London’s Croydon Council cannot balance its 2023-24 budget without help from the government, its Section 151 officer has said as she issued the authority’s third Section 114 notice in 24 months.
