The government has set out plans to grant mayors extra powers to intervene in decisions currently made by local authorities.

The English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill will hand the communities secretary power to compel local government ...

All councils will have to create “effective neighbourhood governance” structures, as part of changes introduced through the ...

Ministers have warned Tower Hamlets LBC that if they are not satisfied with progress then statutory intervention could ...

West Northamptonshire Council is set to become the first Reform-led local authority to scrap its net zero targets in a bid to ...

Tameside MBC has named Emma Alexander as its new chief executive after a turbulent year at the authority. This comes nine ...

Some of those who have been through local government reorganisation and lived to tell the tale shared their advice at last ...

Local government needs to scale back what it does to focus on “delivering the essentials”, Reform UK’s most senior council ...

The two-tier system created in 1974 is “sensible” and local government reorganisation would lead people to “disengage” with ...

Councils have been invited to join a pilot for neighbourhood health that the government hopes will create a "radical shift in ...

Panellists at a recent LGC roundtable, held in association with Norse Group, discussed whether local government reorganisation could be an opportunity to ...

Talks to end the four-month-long Birmingham bin strike have ended in stalemate after the city council admitted it had reached ...