Waste reforms will generate billions in investment but councils will need to help educate the public about the benefits, the ...

A regional mayor is urging the government to allow more flexibility in housing spending in a bid to tackle the area’s ongoing ...

Local government’s longest serving chief executive is to retire later this year, LGC has learned. John Sinnott, who has been ...

The government’s ambition to reorganise all two-tier areas into unitary councils can be delivered during this parliament, the ...

There was a some rare positivity for government policy at the major investment conference in Leeds this week. But you didn't ...

Housing targets are not helpful because councils are already "juggling" targets for other services, a council leader said ...

Dozens of organisations have joined forces to call for “significant new funding” for social care in the upcoming spending ...

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has urged local partners to “back, build, invest, and succeed” in a bid to deliver the ...

New spatial development strategies must be considered alongside plans for growth and infrastructure or risk becoming a ...

Certainty over funding might be the only thing we can look forward to in next month’s Spending Review, writes Jonathan Werran ...

Greater Lincolnshire’s new mayor has vowed to invest in the region’s transport infrastructure in a bid to end its role as the ...

Over three quarters of planning committee members surveyed said the government’s 1.5 million homes target is “unachievable,” ...