Local Government

Source: LGC A single region’s councils could save an estimated £700m over the next decade through improved property management, a new study has shown. The potential cashable savings from West Midlands’ councils property assets were outlined at a Local Government Association annual conference fringe meeting. The six councils examined in the study - Staffordshire CC, Bromsgrove DC, Redditch BC, Tamworth BC, Walsall MBC and Coventry City Council - could generate £45m worth of revenue and £

Contributed Article, Source: Dean CarrollThe Tories will devolve power from central government, give councils more money from housing development, abolish RDAs, and encourage councils to promote economic growth in their area, writes Bob Neill, shadow local government minister A Conservative government would devolve power away from central and regional government down to the local level to ensure that people are given a much greater say in the decisions that affect them.

By Pitsnpots Reporter. We have been reporting for a long time now that we believe that government will intervene in the running of Stoke on Trent. Today at about 9.30am there will be an announcement that the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears has instructed the City's executive, that government officers will take up residence in the Civic Centre to  ensure that all 14 recommendations made by the Governance Commission are adopted withou

Apparently the good people of Stoke on Trent are not going to be able to go to the polls next year and probably not until 2011.  I'm not going to copy the whole piece from the Sentinel, you can read it HERE, but what are your views? Why are we not starting our new system of local government with a newly elected set of councillors?  It seems to me like we are just blundering through this. Next step, Stoke on Trent will lose its autonomy and we will be governed by Staffordshire...