Planning minister Greg Clark has said the final draft of the national planning policy framework (NPPF) will make the local plan the keystone of the planning edifice.
Decades have been spent devoting money to fragmented regeneration projects, but does the future lie with community budgets and deal-making? Alex Thomson asks.
Ultrafast broadband will come to 60 cities, chancellor George Osborne said in a series of Budget announcements on infrastructure investment.
Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled plans to lower the costs of borrowing for councils that lay out in advance their long-term spending plans.
Greater Manchester councils will be able to keep a share of the extra national tax revenues generated in the conurbation under the first city deal to be struck by the government.
Enterprise zones in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and London will benefit from enhanced tax reliefs, the chancellor George Osborne has confirmed in his budget speech.
Social media is an integral part of service provision says Alex Thomson.
Most clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are set to make a manager their accountable officer, and are choosing primary care trust staff to fill key leadership roles in their organisation.
?Britain’s dilemma,’ as Lord Skidelsky writes regarding Localis’s newly launched report Credit Where Credit’s Due, ?is that its economy craves investment but its politics mandates fiscal retrenchment?.
Nine councils in West London, serving more than two million residents, have formed a joint procurement board with the aim of achieving 16m of savings by 2015.