All planning authorities should have a statutory chief planning officer to provide "seniority" and "competency", a body that ...

Rachel Reeves is banking on AI to improve public sector productivity while neglecting the need to craft human solutions to ...

Balvinder Heran has been appointed permanent chief executive of Dudley MBC. Balvinder joined the authority in March 2021 as ...

A champion boxer who only entered politics this year has emerged as the favourite to become the first mayor of the region, ...

The contests for combined authority mayors are anything but easy to forecast. Thom Oliver, a senior lecturer in politics at the University of the West of ...

A six horse race gives candidates confidence, but baffling polling results. Caitlin Webb reports. It is shaping up to be a ...

Transport is a top priority for the mayoral race for the West of England CA with candidates pledging to improve connections ...

The Local Government Association is calling for all new homes to have solar panels installed in a bid to meet the ...

The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care (Adass) Jess McGregor has pledged to "bring ideas not ...

This will be the third time that people in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough have elected a mayor, but in Cambridge city centre ...

Claims that Dame Andrea Jenkyns is ineligible to stand to be the first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire CA have been formally ...

The government must build a new approach on the bedrock of local and regional government, writes the director of devolution ...