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New seamless arrangements for major infrastructure planning will ensure stability & a 21st century
Published : 01 April 2011

New arrangements to ensure a smooth and stable transition to a democratic system for major infrastructure planning decisions have been announced ... read more
New skills strategy gets off to flying start with publication of key guide for very local councillor
Published : 01 April 2011

Help and support is on hand for new and not-so new local councillors in the form of The good councillor's guide for local (parish and town) councillors. ... read more
Reforms to quangos will deliver millions in savings
Published : 01 April 2011

The Department for Communities and Local Government's plan to increase accountability by reducing and reforming its quangos is on course to deliver ... read more
Review could end council dependence on Whitehall grant (not Wales)
Published : 01 April 2011

A vision of 'self-funded' councils that keep their local business taxes with central grant dependence scaled back except where it is needed to ... read more
The Local Elections (Parishes & Communities) (England & Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/5
Published : 01 April 2011

LEGISLATION The Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/562) The Rules amend Schedule ... read more
Transfer of Environment Agency navigations to new waterways charity
Published : 01 April 2011

The Minister for Inland Waterways Richard Benyon has announced that the Government has decided the Environment Agency's navigations (waterways) ... read more
Update on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
Published : 01 April 2011

In this leaflet we provide information on changes affecting employees who are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England ... read more
Welsh households pay £466 less a year for council services than English households
Published : 01 April 2011

The WLGA predicts that the average council tax increase across Wales for 2011-12 will be the lowest since devolution, at approximately 2.93%. ... read more
What does the Yes vote mean for Wales?
Published : 01 April 2011

The vote in the referendum on 3rd March means that the National Assembly will be able to make laws on subjects in all of the 20 areas for which ... read more
Whitehall set to relax grip on councils with first ever review of local government's legal duties [n
Published : 01 April 2011

In another major step to free up local government, councils are being asked for the bureaucratic burdens they wish to throw away in the first ... read more
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