Plans to create two new combined authorities in England are likely to form a ‘template’ for further local government reforms across the country, the chair of the Commons communities and local...
Firefighters have voted to strike over the government’s proposed pension reforms that the Fire Brigades Union has warned could lead to thousands losing their jobs when a change in retirement age is...
Housing experts have queried a plan by the London borough of Camden to use council tax to stop international investors from speculatively buying homes and then leaving them empty.
The Department or Transport has rebuffed a series of calls for national measures to encourage cycling, arguing that doing so would conflict with localism.
The Local Government Association has been selected as one of two organisations to work with those developing Social Impact Bonds and similar payment-by-results schemes, the Big Lottery Fund has...
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has hit out at ‘draconian’ council parking policies that he says are driving people away from town centres and give many authorities a bad name
Crocodile keeping, horse burial and solitary frog removal are just some of the bizarre requests councils were asked to deal with last year, the Local Government Association has revealed.
Police and crime commissioners should be given additional powers, including the ability for sack local prison governors and probation service bosses, a think-tank has said.
Planning appeal hearings should be open to filming and reporting by bloggers and members of the public, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
Local authorities have referred debts to bailiffs on 1.8 million occasions in the last year, figures obtained by the advisory service Money Advice Trust show.
Councils in England have today warned that Treasury schemes to help people get mortgages risk creating a ‘housing bubble’ unless action is also taken to increase the number of homes.
Accounting and finance vacancies in the NHS, local government, housing and charity sectors have doubled in the last year, a recruitment consultancy has said.
Public services should be outsourced to employee-owned mutuals only with the consent of the staff concerned, co-operatives and trade unionists have said.
The Local Government Association has reiterated calls for financial restrictions that prevent councils from building more homes to be lifted after government figures showed the number of new homes...
The leader of the UK’s largest local authority has today urged the National Audit Office to investigate the government’s handling of its funding of councils.
Take home pay in the public sector declined in the three months to the end of July, the fourth consecutive period of decline, according to a survey of earnings.
Business rate relief for smaller firms has trebled in value since the last general election, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has said.
Central government revenues would increase by more than £20bn if Whitehall's tax collection rates were as high as those for councils, the Local Government Association said today.
Plans to create combined authorities in two English regions have taken a step forward after details were published for new institutions in Merseyside and South Yorkshire.
