Plans to improve thousands of council homes in London and Southeast England could be further delayed by skills shortages ahead of the 2012 Olympics, ministers are being told.
The UK dumps more household waste into landfill than any other European Union country and faces onerous fines if it doesn't clean up its act, the Local Government Association has warned.
Housing associations have leapt to the defence of a major government regeneration scheme after the National Audit Office questioned whether it represented value for money.
Councils could stand to generate substantial financial surpluses by setting up local housing companies with developers and registered social landlords, it emerged this week.
The Ministry of Defence spends too much of its budget on military hardware and not enough on the armed forces' pay and housing, a think-tank has reported.
Costs of £28m for a controversial asylum centre that was never built could have been reduced through better Home Office planning, the National Audit Office has said.
The timing could hardly have been worse. Job creation is the Northern Ireland Executive's top priority, Finance Minister Peter Robinson announced in his Budget.
Ways to cope with the economic and social implications of an ageing society are at last on the government's to-do list. Public Finance and Deloitte convened a round table of politicians and policy...
Local authorities are to be offered incentives to free land for housing and make better use of empty properties, under government plans published on October 26.
A £250m contingency fund should be created by the Treasury to help councils facing unplanned costs and potential community tensions because of poor immigration monitoring, town hall leaders have...
Northern Ireland's first Budget since the restoration of devolution has seen a big increase in economic development spending at the expense of social housing.
The Scottish National Party government has once more signalled its determination to go its own way with radical proposals to reform housing, including ending council house tenants' right to buy.
Anti-poverty campaigners this week expressed disappointment that the government's new Child Poverty Unit will not include Treasury officials, despite the department's role in achieving crucial...
Local government leaders and environmental campaigners are awaiting further details after ministers set out proposals allowing councils to trial 'save-as-you-throw' recycling schemes.
The government wants neighbourhoods and communities to run more services. But with an eye-wateringly tight local government financial settlement, how will this be funded? Peter Hetherington...
An ageing population presents a series of issues that must be addressed now, if millions of people are to have a decent old age. Rebecca George looks at the challenges ahead
A council that was at the centre of a row over a redundancy and retirement package for its chief executive has been criticised for a lack of openness caused by 'unduly close' relationships between...
Ministers have moved swiftly to guarantee the future of a flagship regeneration programme after a government document wrongly suggested that it was under threat.
