The new government’s clean energy ambitions may align with councils' objectives, but good community engagement requires ...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has appointed assistant inspectors to review the best value duty of ...

Democracy minister Alex Norris has acknowledged calls from returning officers that electoral law is "outdated, difficult to ...

The chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) has shared his support for "sensible" voting reforms ...

The combined authority model is not “universally applicable” and devolution is “not a solution in itself” to the challenges ...

Westmorland and Furness Council is seeking further clarity from the government over what a potential mayoral combined ...

Communities that are “doubly disadvantaged” could miss out on regional growth without dedicated neighbourhood plans, write ...

Planning meetings are in need of modernisation, writes LGC reporter Kwame Boakye after attending his first meeting. Today's ...

The Housing Ombudsman has included cases of "severe maladministration" at eight councils in its latest report on improving ...

Thurrock’s leader on why he wants to have a “different conversation” with government Rebuilding “trust that’s been broken” ...

Local government funding, and parity for economic development, must underpin industrial strategy ambition, writes the chair ...

A new commission will help rethink the approach to social care, writes the chair of Essex CC’s Caring Communities Commission ...