Council Tax freeze confirmed
The Comprehensive Spending Review included confirmation of the Council Tax freeze next year. The Treasury has set aside an extra… Read more »
Hammersmith and Fulham slash bureuacracy for voluntary groups
Previously voluntary groups wishing to apply for a grant from Hammersmith and Fulham Council had to fill in a 26 page… Read more »
Save the Dunster cobblestones
The Health and Safety terror is now threatening the cobblestones of the medieval Somerset village of Dunster. There have bbeen some… Read more »
Should Council leaders have their own offices?
My Council leader in Hammersmith and Fulham doesn't have his own office in the Town Hall. He sets an example… Read more »
War on TLAs
From Hansard: Nicky Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance he issues to… Read more »
Birbalsingh case shows more parent power in academies needed
Mark Wallace, Senior Account Manager at Portland Communications and author of the Crash Bang Wallace blog, says the Diocese of Southwark should give… Read more »
£7 billion of council finance to no longer be ring fenced
There is a report in The Times (£) this morning that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury is lifting the… Read more »
Ineffective authoritarianism: Councils to have more power to ban cheap alcohol
Following the report in August that a group of councils in Greater Manchester are seeking a by-law to impose a… Read more »
More Lib Dem councillors defect to Labour
I have news of three more Lib Dem councillors defecting to Labour. Cllr Arif Khan in Burnley has jumped ship…. Read more »
Bonfire of the Quangos? More of a light toasting
Laurie Thraves, Policy Manager of the Local Government Information Unit, is disappointed Francis Maude didn't go further The quango cull… Read more »
Council byelection results from yesterday
Durham County – Deneside: Lab 917, C 196. (May 2008 – Two seats Lab 924, 897, Lib Dem 403, 350,… Read more »
The bonfire of local government targets
by Eric Pickles I wonder how many council tax payers know what’s in their local area agreement. Or how to… Read more »
Buckinghamshire heterosexuality quiz? “Never again,” says Council leader
Some good news for Mark Wallace. Last month he wrote on this site about Buckinghamshire County Council sending their staff off… Read more »
Labour issued Town Halls with 74,000 pages of rules over last 10 years
The Local Government Association have added up how many pages of instructions and guidance have been imposed on Town Halls in… Read more »
Opinion poll shows strong backing for localism
Some interesting results in a poll out today by ComRes for the Local Government Association. The essential message is strong backing for… Read more »