A "crisis in our democratic system" is on the cards unless the mounting pressure on the electoral process is addressed, a ...

Lancashire CC’s Reform UK leader has criticised the council for taking on multi-million pound investments, some of which will ...

Essex’s work with public, private and voluntary sector partners is enabling significant strides towards its clean energy ...

The devolution bill offers a “real risk” of moving powers up from local councils rather than down from Whitehall, warn two former ministers. Former ...

Just three years after their creation as a means to improve collaboration between health and local government, integrated ...

The abolition of the committee system should not remove the space for slow, deliberative decision making, writes the chief ...

Almost two thirds of the public who responded to consultations in the six areas that are part of the devolution priority ...

Former Broxbourne BC leader Lewis Cocking, who swapped the council chamber for the Commons last year, shares his concerns over the barriers to becoming a ...

All six areas involved in the devolution priority programme have met the tests to establish combined authorities next year, ...

Commissioners have been appointed to tackle Croydon LBC despite authority’s mayor called on the government to rethink its ...

Thurrock Council will put forward its own local government reorganisation business case, after concluding that the two other ...

Council leaders are working together in a bid to find common ground in response to the government’s plans for local ...