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NCVO welcomes Best Value Guidance
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has warmly welcomed the launch of a Government consultation on how councils should conduct their relationships with the voluntary and community...
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LEPs – did the Government make the right decision?
By Morven MacNeil, GO Content Editor The Department for Communities and Local Government‘s announcement that the British Chambers of Commerce will lead a new national network of local enterprise...
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Government concealing details on homelessness?
According to new reports the Government has been accused of ‘covering its tracks’ on homelessness after it announced a £20m cash pledge to support the national roll-out of the ‘No Second Night Out’...
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The challenge of the ‘right to challenge supply’
By John Tizard, Director, Centre for Public Service Partnerships The Government intends to extend the ‘right to challenge supply’ to all local authority services, into the NHS and across the wider...
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Housing Associations fear debts from Affordable Rent
Communities and Local Government (CLG) is already weighing up plans to roll out an Affordable Rent product before 2015, despite concerns from housing associations about loading up on debt. Housing...
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A contradiction on Affordable Rent Programme
Communities and Local Government minister Andrew Stunell has admitted that the Government’s flagship Affordable Rent programme is not something that will be repeated post-2015, despite Housing Minister...
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PAC publishes report on FiReControl fiasco
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found that the plan by Communities and Local Government (CLG) to scrap 46 local fire and rescue control rooms and replace them with nine regional control...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Supply, England, 2010-2011
The latest statistics on gross affordable housing supply in England. To view the report, click here.
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Pension scheme consultation begins
Communities and Local Government has published a statutory consultation which proposes changes to local government pensions that deliver fair cost savings. The Government’s draft proposals aim to...
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BPF welcomes CLG committee regeneration report
The British Property Federation (BPF) has called for the introduction of tax increment financing (TIF) following the publication the CLG Select Committee report into the Government’s approach to...
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Communities to retain powers – Shapps
TweetDecisions on issues of regeneration affecting local areas should be made by communities, Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has said. Mr Shapps responded to a report from the Communities and...
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Four appointments to HCA Regulation Committee
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, has announced the appointment, following open competition, of four non-executive members to the Homes and Communities Agency...
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Over 180 bids for Government’s £250m weekly rubbish collections fund
A significant number of councils want to take up the Government’s £250m offer to support better, more frequent, more environmentally friendly bin collections for residents, Communities and Local...
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Housing in demand?
By Morven MacNeil, GO Content Editor The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee has produced a report examining the financing of new housing supply. House building levels in England have been...
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5,000 councils ‘go digital’ thanks to multi-million pound cash injection
Thousands of communities across England will now be able to access more information about local politics thanks to a nearly £5m injection of cash designed to ‘digitally enable’ councils (April 24th)....
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£1 million funding for communities to create their own pocket parks
Green-fingered communities across England can bid for a share of £1 million fund from today (5 December 2018) to help develop their own ‘pocket parks’. Pocket parks are small plots of land, often about...
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Councils in England to receive over £50 million to support Brexit preparations
Local authorities across England will receive a share of £56.5 million to help support their preparations for Brexit, ministers announced yesterday (28 January 2019). The Treasury announced in December...
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Over £325,000 of additional homelessness funding following Ministry visit
Over £325,000 worth of additional funding to prevent homelessness has been secured by the city council. The money was released after key Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government workers...
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Council receives a £700,000 boost from government to help rough sleepers
A Government grant of £700,000 has been announced today, which will help more rough sleepers get off the streets for good in 2020/21. Peterborough City Council has been successful in a bid to the...
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York Central infrastructure funding confirmed
Homes England and Network Rail will be investing £77 million to ensure that York’s new city centre quarter development goes ahead, following confirmation of the route for the funding to the project...
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