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Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles plans to clamp down on the publication of 'town hall Pravdas' by 'hard core authorities'

Councillor Abbott Bryning says the recently-announced Local Government Finance Settlement is another blow to the Council's finances There was grim ...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles MP held talks with the Marches LEP board in Ludlow, before taking a tour of south Shropshire’s largest employer,...

Barratt, Bovis and Redrow pressed for 'presumed yes' response to development applications www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/nov/21/mainsection &n...

Croydon locals are getting increasingly frustrated with the council’s rubbish and recycling schedule. Following the schedule change from weekly t...

SNUB will be hosting a Public Meeting on Thursday 29th September at 7pm, Holy Trinity Church and Community Centre, Salhouse Road, Rachheath. We hav...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has published guidance to local authorities on how to protect voluntary and community groups from disproportiona...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has published guidance to local authorities on how to protect voluntary and community groups from disproportiona...

Despite the Prime Minister David Cameron saying that the Government would 'look favourably at any bids from the area for a Local Enterprise Zone' S...

Despite the Prime Minister David Cameron saying that the Government would 'look favourably at any bids from the area for a Local Enterprise Zone' S...

Lancaster City Council is prepared for a potential army of 'armchair auditors' set to be unleashed on their books after recent announcements by the...

THE NEW HUMBER ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP set up last month is competing with twenty eight other similar bodies from around the country each ...

The council decides to continue publication of its fortnightly free 'newspaper' - one of the very few local authorities to do so

The Cabinet is to consider retention of its freesheet in defiance of criticism that it is simply ’propaganda on the rates’

The whitewash of the Lib Dems in the local council elections wasn’t down to lack of effort says Manchester Lib Dem activist David Hennigan. W...

5th MAY WAS YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE OUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTENT ON DESTROYING OUR COUNTRYSIDE AND YOU DID IT!! IN TWO KEY AREAS - SPIXWORTH A...

On the day of Broadland District Council's meeting to vote on the adoption of the Joint Core Strategy Stephen Heard, Chair of Stop Norwich Urbanisa...

Open book government!?THE GOVERNMENT is to introduce new transparency rules which will require councils to publicise to the press and public the "l...

Eric Pickles has issued new guidelines designed to ensure local community groups receive greater support from councils. The communities and local g...

Local authority 'fat cat' pay is revealed whilst government mull plans to give councillors the power to veto town hall salaries over £100,000

The council may be overestimating the amount of savings it makes by publishing its own 'newspaper', claim critics

The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles confirmed today that Greater Manchester is to be one of 16 pilot areas for the new community budgets that co...

Ahead of next week’s budget meeting, figures reveal that Tower Hamlets Council has reserves of £95.3million. The figures, revealed in Wednes...

Community and local government secretary  Eric Pickles has said he is prepared to take immediate steps to legislate to stop “disproportionat...

The Labout goverment introduced The Local Government Act 2000  which required local government to move to an executive based system with a lea...

Councils should open up their public meetings to local news ‘bloggers’ and routinely allow online filming of public discussions as part...

After a marathon meeting of the County Council, Tory councillors have just overwhelmingly voted in favour of the cuts budget, with chief cutter Cll...

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...

Local government secretary Eric Pickles says the move will 'democracy proof' the award of 'mega' deals for council executives

As promised last year, Eric Pickles has introduced a new code of conduct to stop councils from wasting money on blatant self-promotion. Councils wi...