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August 24 2012, 2.08AM The Bodged Road Blog
#QuackCWaC forced to unlock their doors to social media and bloggers
New law changes to introduce greater openness and transparency in executive councils meetings will mean all decisions including those affecting bud...
August 5 2011, 9.13AM HU12 Online
Swifter justice for victims of 'neighbours from hell'
Grant Schapps MPNEIGHBOURS FROM HELL will be evicted much more quickly than at present if new proposals from the Government's Housing Minister Gran...
July 5 2011, 9.41AM HU12 Online
Humber bid for Enterprise Zone
THE NEW HUMBER ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP set up last month is competing with twenty eight other similar bodies from around the country each ...
June 10 2011, 7.11AM HU12 Online
Government BARRIER BUSTING website!
Website ImageTHE BEST IDEAS to improve local communities quite often come from the people who live there. But quite often rules, regulations or bur...
April 14 2011, 8.02AM HU12 Online
Citizens' right to inspect council finances to be spotlighted
Open book government!?THE GOVERNMENT is to introduce new transparency rules which will require councils to publicise to the press and public the "l...
April 5 2011, 8.27AM Stop Norwich Urbanisation
Yesterday in Parliament
The following is an extract from Hansard detailing questions asked of the Department of Communities and Local Government ministerial team yesterday...
March 17 2011, 1.39PM On The Wight
Government Review Statutory Obligations of Local Councils: Libraries At Further Risk
Statutory obligation to provide a comprehensive library service may be scrapped by Government
February 23 2011, 9.44AM The Hedon Blog
News release from the Government… open Council meetings up to hyperlocal Bloggers 
LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER Bob Neill has written to all councils urging greater openness and calling on them to adopt a modern day approach so that ...
February 17 2011, 8.26PM Ipswich Spy
PASSED: 43 to 18 vote in favour of SCC cuts
After a marathon meeting of the County Council, Tory councillors have just overwhelmingly voted in favour of the cuts budget, with chief cutter Cll...
February 16 2011, 11.40AM HU12 Online
Councillors to vote on top officer salaries
LOCALLY ELECTED COUNCILLORS should all have to vote on decisions about whether they want to pay staff salaries over £100,000, according to Local G...
January 31 2011, 9.28AM HU12 Online
Local Transparency – Council Spending over £500
IN 2010 THE GOVERNMENT set a deadline for councils to become more transparent by publishing all of their spending data over £500 online in "access...
January 26 2011, 5.09PM Ipswich Spy
Why haven’t the County or Borough Councils published their spending?
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has given five Suffolk councils, including Ipswich Borough Council and Suffolk County Council, a week to publish...
January 26 2011, 4.50PM Stop Norwich Urbanisation
SNUB ask to be at the vanguard of local planning
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) have asked all local authorities in England to send out a request to local Parish Counci...
January 18 2011, 11.49AM Stop Norwich Urbanisation
BAD PLANNING AND SHABBY POLITICS
A major part of the Big Society debate and the new localism bill now going through parliament is the devolution of power to local communities and i...
January 14 2011, 9.30PM Hackney Citizen
Hackney Council yet to publish spending over £500
With just two weeks until the government's deadline, Hackney is one of ten London councils that have still to make available their data online
January 10 2011, 11.33AM Hackney Citizen
An interview with Ken Livingstone
Labour candidate for London mayor talks budgets, students, crime and the Olympics
January 10 2011, 9.51AM Hackney Citizen
Hackney Council faces ‘difficult decisions’ as cuts loom
Slashing on Town Hall's spending power is condemned by local councillors
January 10 2011, 9.34AM Hackney Citizen
Hackney Today, gone tomorrow?
The council's freesheet needs to be clear about its proper function in future
December 23 2010, 4.55AM Ipswich Spy
County burned by regional fire control cancellation
On Monday of this week, the Suffolk County Council scrutiny committee chose to affirm the decision taken by the SCC Cabinet on 7th December to tran...
October 5 2010, 10.36AM HU12 Online
East Riding Council to 'open the books'
EAST RIDING COUNCIL is expected to 'open-the-books' and publish full details of all its spending over £500 on its website by January 2011. Under n...
July 13 2010, 11.54AM Pits n Pots
LSP Quango Should Be Scrapped
Upon returning from my annual holiday, the first headline in the local media to hit me was the ConLib Governments cuts to Area Based Grants (£3.4m...
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