Tory Council bans smokers fostering
Conservative controlled Redbridge Council has decided that smokers won’t be allowed to foster children after January 2010. This BBC report… Read more »
Housing Ministers and targets – how they both keep changing
Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps, in his first post for the Local Government Blog, on how the great clunking fist… Read more »
More jargon busting
Some material for the CCA’s plain English drive from a rather good cartoon in First magazine, which is sent out… Read more »
Say no to the super sewer
I’ve written a piece for The Guardian’s website about the ill judged proposal from Thames Water to spend £2.5 billion… Read more »
Championing Localism
Former Bradford Council leader Cllr Margaret Eaton was elected Chairman of the Local Government Association in September. Here she explains… Read more »
When should councillors be deselected?
The Yorkshire Post report that a long standing Conservative councillor in Calderdale, Grenville Horsfall, has been deselected from standing at… Read more »
Exeter Council spent £70,000 on lottery application never sent in
Exeter Council (which so far as I can tell is a Lib Dem lead minority administration to the extent it… Read more »
Christmas banned in Oxford
Christmas events funded by Labour-run Oxford Council are being redesignated a "Winter Light Festival" in order to be more "inclusive."… Read more »
Working with Boris
Deputy Mayor of London Ian Clement on the end of City Hall’s war with the boroughs. When Boris Johnson asked… Read more »
Camden Conservatives want Christmas celebrated
Camden Conservatives have put this motion to their council: "This Council believes that attempts to airbrush out Christmas, one of… Read more »
Mark Wallace: Aberdeen City Council – a case study in bad local government
Mark Wallace writes this regular column for the Local government page of ConservativeHome. Just about every council gets things wrong… Read more »
Tory-run Monmouthshire fails to live up to Cameron’s commitment to small businesses
These were David Cameron’s words, from two weeks ago: "Lots of our small businesses provide goods and services to local… Read more »
By-election results
Kentish Town, Camden LBC. (Holborn and St Pancras) LD hold. Con vote 7% -1, Lab 34% +3, LD 37% +1,… Read more »
Should Council meetings be webcast?
Conservative-run Croydon Council offers the chance to their residents (any anyone else) to see filmed recordings of their Council meetings… Read more »
Should paving front gardens be allowed?
Residents who want to pave a front garden will need local authority planning permission from this month. The new planning… Read more »