The deputy prime minister's commitment to "give the north what it is owed" has echoes of the previous government's policy, ...

The leader of Tameside MBC survived a vote of no confidence at an extraordinary council meeting held yesterday. Eleanor Wills ...

Transport devolution is delivering but can go further in some critical policy areas, writes the director of the Urban ...

With the government keen to see council pension fund money support regeneration, an LGC roundtable in association with ...

Pendle BC has appointed Lawrence Conway as its interim chief executive. He will take over from Rose Rouse, who is due to ...

Some councils facing intense homelessness pressures could lose more than a third of their current funding support under ...

High standards are vital but a new regime must only intervene in democratic mandates as a last resort, writes deputy editor ...

Ministers have renamed the previous government’s £1.5bn Long Term Plan for Towns as the Plan for Neighbourhoods, and are ...

Staffordshire CC is proposing creating a county-wide unitary that would join a mayoral strategic authority alongside the ...

Unnecessary parochialism and pettiness” is holding local government back from “empowerment” through the mayoral combined ...

The social media site is no longer the right platform, or an effective one, for the council to communicate on, writes the ...

The government has denied that it deliberately misled parliament over delays to local elections due to reorganisation. During ...