An extra £40m will be mobilised to rebuild and improve flood defences following storms that have caused damage across the north of England, the government has announced.
People forced out of their homes by flooding will not be charged council tax until they can return to their properties, local government secretary Greg Clark has announced.
Councils in flood-hit areas in the North of England will be reimbursed for the costs incurred in the clean up through the Bellwin scheme, communities secretary Greg Clark announced yesterday.
A government programme to improve delivery of £1.8bn in annual payments under the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy has been undermined by “deep rifts” between...
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.
Abandoned shopping trolleys are a blight on the nation’s streets and waterways and supermarkets need to do more to tackle the problem, according to the Local Government Association.
Ministers could take the power to decide on fracking applications away from local authorities that do not make decisions on developments within 16 weeks, it has been announced.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has become the first local authority in England to secure finance from the Green Investment Bank to replace its streetlights with lower energy light emitting diode (...
Energy secretary Amber Rudd is to end to government funding for the Green Deal Finance Company in order to protect taxpayers from both low take up of home improvements and concerns over industry...
The UK Green Investment Bank aims to make a healthy profit for the taxpayer by ploughing £3.8bn of public money into renewable energy, as chief executive Shaun Kingsbury explains
Energy secretary Amber Rudd has announced the government will close the subsidy scheme for onshore wind farms from next April, one year earlier than planned.
The next government should create an independent City Devolution Commission to devolve power over public services and some taxes to every major UK conurbation by the end of the parliament, the RSA...
New planning rules freeing builders from the requirement to build social homes have taken effect. In return, ministers are expecting builders to slash their usual sale prices by 20% in bid to help...
A committee of MPs has called for a moratorium on fracking saying the risks it poses to public health are still unknown, while the activity simultaneously undermines national climate change targets.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is to stop councils from seeking section 106 planning obligation payments for small developments of 10 homes or less.
Government contracts worth £16.6bn to promote renewable electricity generation were poorly conceived and managed and did not secure best value, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
The government’s flagship scheme to boost domestic energy efficiency is failing and should be revamped to offer households discounts on council tax for undertaking improvements, MPs said today.