New measures will see owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets forced to pay.

CPRE research has shown a 1,000 per cent increase in short-term lets nationally over the last six years, with most in rural staycation hotspots.

Community Vaccine Champions will be tapping into their local networks and encouraging people in their community to come forward and get vaccinated.

Ill health n England’s most deprived neighbourhoods is costing an estimated £29.8 billion a year to the economy in lost productivity.

Proposals for Manchester City Council to buy its own solar farm to help cut its carbon emissions are set to move forward.
Getting involved in large scale renewable energy generation is something that Manchester City Council is pursuing as part of its determination to play its part in tackling climate change. The council’s Climate Change Action Plan 2020-25 sets out to halve its direct carbon emissions by 2025 in support of the city’s goal to become zero carbon by 2038.

More than half of UK firms believe their IT systems have been left more exposed to attack following the huge increase in people working from home.

Leaseholders could find it easier and cheaper to buy the freehold of their building under new proposals to create a fairer housing system.

Communities have been selected for two pilot schemes aimed at encouraging more people in urban and deprived areas to engage in the planning system.

The IFS has said that councils’ finances held up much better during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020–21, than previously thought.