Andrew Carter: An urban manifesto for the next Prime Minister
Encouragingly, both leadership contenders have confirmed their support for more devolution.
Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests
The Lib Dems gained a seat from the Conservatives in East Riding of Yorkshire. It’s Our County held a seat in Herefordshire.
Jeremy Hutton: There are 6,047 empty council-owned commercial properties in the UK – what a shocking waste
Providing security, insurance, maintenance and renovation of these vacant properties costs £74 million a year. Many could be converted into housing.
Wigan Council is seeking to be the servant and not the master of its residents
Spending cuts have caused a spirit of innovaton and cultural change in our town halls.
How can the nation’s beauty be regained?
Planners and architects are contemptuous of public opinion. It is naive to assume otherwise.
Stephanos Ioannou: Overdevelopment means that traditional London suburbs are under threat
New tower blocks being proposed in the capital seem designed to be as assertive and architecturally antisocial as possible.
Judy Terry: We need greater engagement and openness in Suffolk about Special Education Needs
Failing inspection reports on two occasions and losing 90 per cent of SEND cases taken to tribunal are worrying signs.
Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests
The Conservatives lost a seat to the Lb Dems in Wiltshire. Plaid Cymru gained from Labour in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Ben Houchen: Which candidate will show leadership on free ports?
From South Carolina to Singapore, and from Dubai to Dalian, growth is supercharged by creating areas inside a country, which fall outside of its customs border.
Andrew Kennedy: Unitary authorities can help save taxpayers’ money
Buck-passing between different authorities results in poor outcomes for residents and kickback from voters.
Nyear Nazir: My pride as the first Muslim woman councillor in Redditch
Living in a world which can seem so provocative, emotive, and opinionated, I want to focus on the politics of inclusion rather than of division.
Anna Firth: Local Government, not central Government, has the power and the tools to combat loneliness
In Sevenoaks, we are using public health funding to pay for advisors working in GP surgeries to help tackle the non-medical causes why people visit their doctor.
Gareth Lyon: The case for academising local authorities
Just as high performing and well-led schools were allowed to convert to being academies, good local councils should have the chance of financial independence.
Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests
In the only contest taking place this week, Labour lost a seat to an independent in Mansfield.
The local elections revisited: an analysis of results in the East of England
Yet more triumphs for clusters of independents. Essex Man may have lost enthusiasm for the Conservative Party but not for Conservative principles.