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New fund aims to boost volunteering among over 50s

New fund will create more 'opportunities for a greater number of over 50s to share ...

Housing Local Government

Government announces new approach to planning

'We are not attempting to micro-manage local development,’ claims communities secretary.

Communities Finance

Local welfare schemes on ‘brink of collapse’

‘Our research reveals a depressingly bleak picture.'

Communities Economic Development

Turning back the tide in coastal communities

‘We've not seen a development approach which takes into consideration what these towns want or ...

Housing

Oxford to spend £64m building affordable homes

'It's time for government to recognise the urgent need for genuinely affordable housing'

Economic Development

Core Cities set out post-Brexit, place-based agenda for change

'Leaving the EU is an opportunity to rethink the balance of power between the national ...

Communities

Scottish government launches Making Places

Proposed projects must allow communities to either lead the process, or to participate fully and ...

Communities

How to… ride the rollercoaster of community energy

‘There’s a big sea change coming in the energy sector’

Economic Development

Radical new approach to UK economy needed, says commission

Economic policymaking in the UK is ‘too opaque, too closed and too elitist’

Economic Development

Councils warn ‘devolution deadlock’ puts economy at risk

LGA calls on the government to publish progress report on negotiations.