The Local Government Association has today urged MPs to halt plans for a ‘free-for-all’ on home extensions that could have a negative impact on local communities.
Three-quarters of local government leaders say funding cuts are the most important issue facing their areas, according to an Ipsos Mori poll published today.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is consulting on measures to curb what he calls ‘political propaganda’ by English councils, including the publication of weekly newspapers and hiring of lobbyists.
Councils have consolidated the gains made under the first two years of International Financial Reporting Standards. But further challenges lie ahead, says Sarah Sheen
This month, local authorities face one of their trickiest balancing acts yet. They have to meet the twin challenges of government changes to council tax support and business rates, without losing out...
MPs today urged the Department for Work and Pensions to re-examine the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’, warning that the Housing Benefit reductions could hit divorced parents and disabled people.
Scottish councils face a continuing spending squeeze in the coming financial year and it will be a ‘tall order’ for them to maintain services, the Accounts Commission has warned.
Holyrood’s finance committee has approved in principle Scottish Government plans to replace stamp duty with a more progressive form of property transaction tax.
The National Audit Office has slammed the Department for Communities and Local Government’s management of the £1.3bn New Homes Bonus programme, warning that many councils would lose out.
The government has confirmed that the plans developed by the four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots across England will be implemented from next month.
Councils in the North of England should issue a collective municipal bond to raise funds for capital projects, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
Plans to establish Community Budgets across England have taken a step forward after the government wrote to councils offering help to pool local funding across the public sector.
Competing calls to increase growth and further reduce spending and taxes resulted in a Budget that was ‘muddling through at best’, Jonathan Portes told CIPFA's World-Class Performance Symposium.
Government support worth more than £130bn is to be made available to help people buy a home, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget statement.
Local authorities could face a ‘deluge’ of legal challenges over social care services unless the government clarifies which costs count towards the planned lifetime cap on charges, MPs and peers...
Whitehall funds for training, housing and transport are to be devolved into single cash pots for Local Enterprise Partnerships, ministers announced today in their response to the Heseltine growth...
