The government has unveiled plans to overhaul the planning system for major infrastructure projects in a bid to “streamline” ...

Two Conservative MPs have backed a Lib Dem district leader's call for a ministerial meeting to discuss concerns over ...

Two districts have publicly opposed the inclusion of one unitary ahead of a meeting for potential members of a Thames Valley ...

The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus ...

Surrey councils fear that Woking BC's debt will be shared across all the new unitaries following reorganisation. Woking ...

Harlow DC is set to appoint a permanent managing director alongside three executive directors as part of a restructure of the ...

Essex, Stevenage and Rotherham are among council making changes to their senior teams. Nicole Wood has been appointed as the ...

The union representing council chief executives has asked for its members to be guaranteed a pay increase that “matches” what ...

Barnet LBC has issued a section 114 notice due to "unlawful" payments made into and from their pension fund. Papers, issued ...

The Conservative administration at Cornwall Council has lost its majority after a councillor defected to the Independent ...

The government’s proposals demonstrate a startling lack of understanding of what is needed to revitalise local democracy in ...

Councillors at Rochdale MBC have voted to appoint James Binks as the new chief executive. Mr Binks, currently an assistant ...