The devolution white paper was as radical, and contentious, as trailed. Resolving tensions quickly is key to creating new ...

Mayors will receive significant new powers over housing and planning as part of the English devolution white paper. Mayoral ...

London is set to join other mayoral combined authorities with an integrated settlement in two years due to “its unique ...

The government will legislate to give ministers the power to “knock heads together” where areas cannot agree over geographies ...

Future legislation will “radically simplify the system” for local audit and a new national standards boards will oversee ...

Individual environmental impact assessments could be scrapped as the government sets out its plans to overhaul housing and ...

All 32 London boroughs have been set a higher housing target than was proposed in July, with one council seeing a 20% ...

The important role councillors play in national politics must not be forgotten in the reorganisation debate, writes the ...

The updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) places significant pressure on local authorities to update their local ...

A growing number of councils are looking to raise council tax beyond the usual limit for the coming financial year, LGC ...

The first results from LGC's annual council tax tracker shows that once again the majority of councils are preparing to make ...

All remaining two-tier areas are to be invited to set out proposals for reorganisation under plans due to be unveiled in the ...