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Government launches new High Streets Task Force

The High Streets Task Force – which will be comprised of high street experts – ...

Local Government

Local councils given duty to house domestic abuse survivors

Local councils will be legally required to offer tailored accommodation-based services to domestic abuse victims ...

Communities Finance Local Government

Austerity stopping planners from serving public, study finds

A lack of resources and ill-thought planning reforms have reduced planning to a more reactionary ...

Housing Regeneration

Cable calls for action to end empty homes ‘scandal’

‘Councils need to be given the powers and resources to bring empty homes back into ...

Finance Local Government

Labour warns Universal Credit is costing councils millions

‘It’s clear councils are committing their own valuable resources from already-stretched budgets.’

Communities Local Government

‘Ultra localism in action’: 15 mins with Sue Baxter

Why town and parish councils are the 'closest tier of local government to communities'.

Built Environment Communities

Minister forms parks action group

‘We recognise the value of parks and green spaces to local communities,' says Marcus Jones.

Economic Development Local Government Regeneration

South Yorkshire devo deal hits the rocks

Two councils vote against taking plans to next stage.

Communities Finance

Local welfare schemes on ‘brink of collapse’

‘Our research reveals a depressingly bleak picture.'

Economic Development Local Government

15 Mins with Donna Hall, chief executive of Wigan Council

Councils which fail to tap into the power in communities will really struggle.