Business & Enterprise

The RTPI has said that the planning function is absent from the top table in 94 per cent of local authority top tables in Scotland.

Proposals by the Welsh Government to merge the country’s 22 councils to as few as 10 would not solve the financial and service pressures that local authorities are currently experiencing, RTPI Cymru has said.

The UK and Scottish governments have signed a £90.2 million city region deal for Stirling and Clackmannanshire, which aims to 'drive economic growth across the region'.