With more mayoral powers coming down the line and strategic authorities being established across the country it is important ...

The housing secretary could be empowered to force local authorities to work together on cross-boundary development strategy.

Councillors must undergo mandatory training and receive a certificate in order to sit on planning committees, according to ...

A recent LGC roundtable highlighted the need for a more tailored approach to planning EV infrastructure, writes John Rainford ...

The Royal Town Planning Institute said that the government’s mandatory training for members to serve on the planning ...

The real goal of devolution should be a system of genuinely regional authorities across England, writes the policy director ...

Newcastle-under-Lyme BC is set to fight against reorganisation plans set out by Staffordshire CC and Stoke-on-Trent Council. Next week, district ...

The government intends to fund strategic authorities with a formula allocation through the local government finance settlement and encourage the use of ...

The government has said it will stick to its proposed deadline to ‘complete’ Local Government Pension Scheme pooling, despite warnings it is “extremely ...

The government has sought to make a virtue of its determination to back the “builders not the blockers” - and views councils ...

The system for compulsory purchase orders is to be streamlined and the role of development corporations expanded in a bid to ...

Arguments about a unitary council’s size are a distraction from how ‘local’ local government can be, writes the leader of ...