Wirral Council to invest £1bn in Birkenhead regeneration

Wirral Council has revealed plans for the transformation of Wirral through a £1 billion development opportunity.

Waveney District Council calls for better storm response

Waveney District has published a report making a series of recommendations to improve the response to storms, after it labelled the response to January’s storm surge ‘inadequate’.

Wales councils have slowest download speeds

Figures from the House of Commons library have shown that seven out of 10 of the council wards with the slowest download speeds are in Wales.

The HCA has announced it will provide a £45 million loan to build over 4,500 new homes at a site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough devolution deal has been agreed, with a new mayor to be elected on 4 May.

A new Keep Wales Tidy survey has revealed that collecting and disposing of litter discarded on Welsh roads is costing £3.5 million a year.

Many local authorities face being unable to meet their legal obligations to schools, the Local Government Association has warned.

Councils will gain greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention under a new flexible homelessness support grant.

The Conservative Party has been fined £70,000 for incorrectly reporting spending on three by-elections in 2014 and the 2015 General Election.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has said the government will not proceed with the proposed increases in NIC for the self-employed

Leicester City Council signs new software agreement to transform operations

Leicester City Council, has partnered with enterprise software provider TechnologyOne to modernise IT and transform business operations.

Devolution hindered by endless change, IfG concludes

A report by the Institute for Government (IfG) has warned that endless ‘tinkering’ by the government in sub-regional policy has hindered the effectiveness of the devolution of powers.

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