Five cities in the north of England have set out a £15bn plan to upgrade transport connections across the region to create an interconnected ‘economic powerhouse’.
Council managers paid more than £100,000 by UK local authorities fell by 5% in 2012/13 to 2,181, according to an analysis of local authority accounts by the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
Council spending will have fallen by nearly 30% by the end of the current parliament as a result of government funding reductions, an analysis of expenditure by CIPFA has found.
Councils across the country are writing off millions of pounds of parking fines each year because they are unable to trace the drivers of foreign vehicles, the Local Government Association has said.
Local government trade unions have announced they will escalate their pay dispute with council employers by holding a second one-day strike across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on October 14.
The eight core cities in England have set up a new board with their corresponding Local Enterprise Partnerships in a bid to boost jobs and investment outside London and the south east.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has urged councils to submit bids for a £3m fund intended to quicken the planning process for new developments, amid concerns that construction could be hampered by...
People who volunteer across a host of community services including leisure centres and libraries should receive £100 off their council tax bill, the Local Government Association has suggested today.
Councils have called for local communities to be given as much as 10% of the revenues from local shale gas initiatives after the government opened up the bidding processes for fracking sites.
Councils have defended their use of parking charges after a poll of drivers by the motoring organisation the RAC found that four in ten drivers think councils are using this revenue to subsidise...
Low-income families are struggling to find good quality, affordable and flexible childcare providers, the Citizens Advice has said today as it called for councils to be given a stronger oversight...
Unison has called on council employers to come back to the negotiating table as it announced its local government and school support members would hold a second day of strike action on September 30.
Policymakers must not neglect passenger transport serving isolated communities in both rural and urban areas, MPs on the transport committee have warned.
An urban regeneration company charged with leading the redevelopment of central Birmingham has been established, capitalising on the city’s status as a High Speed 2 hub.
Sixty-nine local authorities are to receive extra school funding from the Department for Education for the next academic year, schools minister David Laws has confirmed.
Complaints about local authorities’ tax and benefit programmes increased by more than a quarter in the year town halls introduced council tax support schemes, the Local Government Ombudsman’s annual...
Local authorities could be forced to publish the value of the council flats and houses that they own, under government plans unveiled by housing minister Kris Hopkins.
