Leaders from five local authorities have launched a public consultation on their plans to form two new unitaries across ...

Nigel Farage wants councils to stop working on net zero but that’s not what residents and councils want, writes the ...

A year into the job as leader of Nottingham City Council, Neghat Khan (Lab) tells LGC about stepping in at a 'critical' time, ...

To suggest there is significant waste left to cut in local government ignores reality, and the transparency with which ...

Profiteering, funding and increasing the number of high quality children’s homes are also needed, writes the president of the ...

The minister has said areas should submit one document outlining proposals for local government reorganisation as it revealed ...

Sector figures have warned that large unitaries supported by neighbourhood committees would be "insufficient" to meet the ...

Just 21% of council figures say their authority is better off as a result of Labour’s actions since entering government last ...

A failure to grasp this opportunity will only further entrench fragmentation and frustration, writes the president of the ...

Mid Sussex DC has launched a legal challenge over the Planning Inspectorate’s “ill-founded” dismissal of its local plan. The ...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into alleged fraud committed against Thurrock Council by Rockfire ...

Six Labour mayors have urged the government to grant them devolved powers to implement a visitor levy in a bid to boost ...