Local government minister Jim McMahon has ruled out the elections for deputy mayors of combined authorities. Kirklees MBC ...

The plan offers significant opportunity to empower local authorities and accelerate the transition to clean energy, writes ...

Oxfordshire councils are set to put three unitary reorganisation options to the government, two of which involve the adjacent unitary West Berkshire ...

Carolyn Williamson is to step down as Hampshire CC’s chief executive in July, after more than 40 years in the public sector. She joined Hampshire in 2010 ...

The planning minister accused those opposed to planning committee reforms of “scaremongering” after opposition MPs raised ...

Council pension funds returned to growth in 2023-24 but an LGC investigation finds this masked some disappointing investment ...

Five separate reorganisation plans have been submitted for Devon, despite the minister urging the area work together. There ...

Councils in Worcestershire have agreed an interim reorganisation plan which keeps both one and two unitary models in play.

Neighbouring councils of Gatwick Airport could form a new unitary that crosses county boundaries, according to its leaders. The deadline to submit ...

With the Netflix drama Toxic Town throwing a spotlight on a local government scandal, Phil Swann, a PhD student at INLOGOV, ...

Hertfordshire’s districts have rejected the county council’s reorganisation proposal for a single unitary council as creating ...

Councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have responded to the government with no specific reorganisation proposal and ...