Cambridgeshire increases councillor allowances by 25%
Conservative-run Cambridgeshire County Council has voted through a 25% increase in councillors allowances. There was a free vote on adopting… Read more »
Trade unions launch campaign to defend Council employed Youth Workers
In a post a couple of years ago on 100 ways to cut Council Tax without cutting key services, numbers… Read more »
How Labour’s referral fees from ambulance chasing lawyers were exposed
Yesterday the Daily Mail splashed on the huge conflict of interest the Labour Party has in demanding that referral fees… Read more »
Pickles says coordination needed for 120,000 troubled families
In a speech to the Local Government Association yesterday, the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles spoke of the Government's determination to… Read more »
Localism will be an ally of good design in planning
Rather to their credit the Daily Telegraph have published an article this morning by Hank Dittmar, the Chief Executive of… Read more »
Cutting street lighting has not increased crime
The Sunday Telegraph reports that in a survey 98 out of 133 councils were reducing, or considering reducing, street lighting…. Read more »
Pay to Stay – why did we ever do anything else?
John Moss, the Conservative candidate for the City & East London Assembly seat in May 2012, welcomes the recent housing… Read more »
Council pension funds attack Murdoch
Given that Cllr Ian Greenwood, the Labour leader of Bradford Council, is presiding over a secretive overspend of £4 million… Read more »
60,000 council tenants own another home
Housing Minister Grant Shapps is interviewed (£) in the Times this morning. His main theme was the unfairness of the… Read more »
Housing Association tenants should also get the right to buy
Mark Henderson is the Chief Executive of the social enterprise Home Group, one of the leading national providers of affordable… Read more »
Council byelection results from yesterday
St Helen's Ward, Barnsley MBC. Lab 1257 (75.8%, -3.5), BNP 174 (10.5%, -1.6), ED 146 (8.8%, +8.8), Con 61 (3.7%,… Read more »
Which Labour Ministers dined at Boisdale and The Wolseley?
More details have emerged of the lavish spending under Labour of the Department of Communities and Local Government's Procurement Card…. Read more »
How Lady Thatcher changed my life
Cllr Barry Macleod-Cullinane, the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group on Harrow Council, was among the first beneficiaries of the… Read more »
Government proposals to reduce sign clutter
The Departent of Transport have produced a Traffic Signs Policy Paper. Among the welcome objectives is to reduce the clutter… Read more »
The Rent a Room tax relief should be increased
Shelter have produced a long report with lots of maps and figures about how expensive it is to privately rent… Read more »