4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (401+ words) Oldham Council's monitoring officer has issued a section 5 report after stating that the authority’s failure to appoint a leader following the local elections had “progressed beyond ordinary political disagreement". The report follows councillors' fourth unsuccessful attempt to elect a leader…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (633+ words) English mayors will be given a share of income tax revenues for the first time, the Government has announced. Mayors will also be handed greater control over decisions on jobs, transport, housing and public services in their area, as part…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (479+ words) A Divisional Court has dismissed a statutory review challenge brought by local residents over the decision by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in January this year to grant planning permission for an embassy for the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (616+ words) A “culture of weak financial management and governance” at Hillingdon Council will make it difficult for the London borough to break free from its need for Exceptional Financial Support (EFS), CIPFA has warned. The comments came in a Government-commissioned report…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (803+ words) David Richardson considers how the ‘cancelled scheme world’ principle applies to CAADs, and how to treat planning policies influenced by the underlying scheme. In the case of Secretary of State for Transport v John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust, the Upper…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (620+ words) A High Court judge has taken the unusual step of explaining his reasons for granting permission for a judicial review to a group of house builders, who wish to challenge the Secretary of State for Transport over the use of…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (356+ words) The next generation of development corporations will only succeed if funding, governance, leadership and staffing are planned together from the outset, the University of Birmingham’s Local Policy Innovation Partnership Hub has said. Between 10 and 15 new development corporations are expected to…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (550+ words) Stoke-on-Trent could face a "complex and unnecessary bureaucratic undertaking" to regain its city status if it is not preserved during local government reorganisation in Staffordshire, council officers have warned. Stoke-on-Trent was first granted city status by Letters Patent issued by…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (545+ words) The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has reported a 48% surge in complaints about public services alongside an 18% increase in complaints about the Code of Conduct, in its first quarterly report of 2026. In its Q1 report for 2026, the watchdog said it had…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (252+ words) A new initiative by the Ethics and Integrity Commission (EIC) will examine existing Codes of Ethical Conduct to formulate “practical, non-statutory guidance”. The standards watchdog last week (24 July) published its official Terms of Reference for a new project in response…...