Westminster City Council has given residents the go-ahead to hold a referendum on setting up Londons first parish council.
More than 2,000 residents of Queens Park in north-west London signed a petition requesting the establishment of a community council in the area and the council has held a community governance review to examine the proposal.
A new discounted rate on loans from the government is set to be introduced early next year, according to officials.
A consultation on whether a tax efficient vehicle for property investment – widely used in the commercial property market – could be used to encourage more investment in the social housing sector has been published by the government.
Local councils are being told to step up and take responsibility for economic growth in their areas. But while councils are keen to exert greater control over their local economies, many feel they are being told to do so with “one hand tied behind their backs”…
An at a glance look at the key news contained in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
Local authorities that have a poor track record for allocating land for housing will still have to find an extra 20 per cent of land on top of their five year land supplies, the government said today.
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.
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.