Reorganisation has tested the strength of the local government family unity as they squabble over the "best" way to govern, ...

Jillian Kay has been appointed Southampton City Council’s chief executive, subject to approval of full council tomorrow.

The government has unveiled plans to overhaul the planning system for major infrastructure projects in a bid to “streamline” ...

Two Conservative MPs have backed a Lib Dem district leader's call for a ministerial meeting to discuss concerns over ...

Two districts have publicly opposed the inclusion of one unitary ahead of a meeting for potential members of a Thames Valley ...

The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus ...

Harlow DC is set to appoint a permanent managing director alongside three executive directors as part of a restructure of the ...

Surrey councils fear that Woking BC's debt will be shared across all the new unitaries following reorganisation. Woking ...

Essex, Stevenage and Rotherham are among council making changes to their senior teams. Nicole Wood has been appointed as the ...

Barnet LBC has issued a section 114 notice due to "unlawful" payments made into and from their pension fund. Papers, issued ...

Senior staff at Guildford BC failed to take “sufficient effective or material steps” to prevent the alleged fraud by an ...

Councillors have called for a "Cornwall-only" devolution deal, and opposed the suggestion of a strategic mayoral authority ...