The Office for Place – a body charged with responsibility for making sure new developments are attractive – is to close down, ...

Concerns remain that the government's compensation plan for councils will not cover the full increase in direct employment ...

Local authorities should not be responsible for unblocking the nutrient neutrality "bottleneck" when they are not responsible ...

The author of the new book Platformland: an anatomy of next generation public services on how governments around the world ...

Thurrock Council expects legal and other professional fees related to the fallout from its financial failure to exceed £47.4m ...

The government is set to appoint ‘ministerial envoys’ to Tower Hamlets Council as part of a statutory support package ...

Local government has been around the reorganisation merry-go-round before – but could it be different this time asks LGC ...

Big Issue founder Lord John Bird abruptly left a housing committee inquiry this morning, claiming he did not want to be part ...

MPs have promised to try to work together to address social care reform. Social care minister Stephen Kinnock told the County ...

The focus of the adult social care debate on older people does not reflect where the most significant pressures lie, argues ...

Legal action by Thurrock Council could spread “like a contagion” embroiling hundreds of councils across the UK in a costly ...

Councils can have bigger impact when they work in partnership with charities, writes the chief executive of Citizens Advice.