local government

Government must address short-term workforce shortages post-Brexit

03.04.2019

Laura Edgar

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG) has said the government must address workforce shortages in the short term, including in the construction sector.

Democracy – a daring concept but should we give up on it?

31.01.2019

Louise Brooke-Smith

We may need to tweak - or even overhaul - our local decision-making system if we are to solve the housing shortage and get the sensible, well-planned development the nation needs, argues Louise-Brooke ...

RTPI Cymru expresses concerns over plans to merge councils

18.06.2018

Laura Edgar

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | local government | Welsh Government

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.

Merged planning authorities back on the agenda in Wales

23.03.2018

Roger Milne

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | local government | Welsh Government

Proposals that would involve Wales’s 22 councils merged to as few as 10 have been resurrected by the administration in a green paper published this week.

Mark Drakeford / National Assembly for Wales

Welsh minister clarifies aspects of mandatory regional planning regime

20.07.2017

Roger Milne

Cymru | local government | Mark Drakeford | Policy & Politics

Cabinet secretary for local government Mark Drakeford has confirmed further details of the promised legislation that will see mandatory regional working between Wales’s 22 councils on issues such as economic development, strategic land use planning and strategic transport.

Building homes, building communities

28.03.2017

Claire Porter

Community Engagement | community planning | Housing | local government | UK

As the country faces the biggest housing crisis of a generation, we have an unusual opportunity before us, says the New Local Government Network's (NLGN) Claire Porter.

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Achieving gender equality 'is not the responsibility of women alone'

08.03.2017

Claire Porter

For International Women's Day, the New Local Government Network's (NLGN) Claire Porter asks how we can get more women into senior roles in local...

White paper spells out new-look regional and sub-regional planning service for Wales

02.02.2017

Roger Milne

Business & Enterprise | Cymru | local development plan | local government | welsh local government

The Welsh Government has laid out more details of its proposals for mandatory regional and sub-regional working to deliver council planning services.

Think tank calls for a more independent local government

14.11.2016

Laura Edgar

The Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) has launched a report that calls for the government to set out a plan for a more independent local government with ‘clear powers and a clear vision’.

Belfast fury over regeneration devolution U-turn by Northern Ireland Executive

27.11.2015

Roger Milne

Belfast City Council has called for an urgent meeting with the social development minister Mervyn Storey following his announcement of an indefinite delay in the transfer of regeneration powers to local government.

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