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Local leadership

April 2017

  • Mayoral elections

    Mayoral elections will smash the status quo. Charities must be ready

    New mayors will want big ideas for problems such as rough sleeping in their area. Small local charities need to consider how they can survive that

April 2016

  • Late night voting in South Shields in 2013.

    In momentous times for councils, we need more data on local elections

    Despite devolution and tough budgets, there’s been little information on the crucial 5 May elections. Now thinktank LGiU plans to plug the gap

November 2015

  • Bicycles in the snow, Tampere, Finland

    Energy access
    The greenest city mayors take home the fight against climate change

    An organic farmer turned politician, a woman with solar panels on her shed and a man who cycles in the snow – the city leaders who live green
  • The Lowry and the millenium Bridge at Salford Quays Manchester England UK.

    Cities must scale up their ambitions for devolution to work

    Mike Emmerich
    The first devolution deals are tentative. It’s time for cities to step on the gas
  • Pollution blankets Mexico city against a backdrop of the Ixtcihuatl volcano 18 January 2002.

    Health in cities
    The cities that are cleaning up their act

    We asked a panel of experts how communities from Mexico City to Belfast are becoming healthier and more sustainable

October 2015

  • An aerial picture of Finow Tower I and II solar power plant under construction in Finowfurt, Germany

    Energy access
    Energy co-ops: why the UK has nothing on Germany and Denmark

    The community energy sector needs to look to more innovative models to survive the loss of government support and cuts to subsidies

September 2015

  • Fireman in helmet with reflective visor down

    The real reason the Tories want to scrap fire and rescue authorities

    Paul Embery
    The government has embarked on a scorched earth strategy in its attempt to impose cuts: if you can’t beat them, abolish them

July 2015

  • The Cornish flag flutters alongside Union Jack flags

    Cornwall gets its devolution deal – but who will foot the bill?

  • American conductor Marin Alsop leads the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Careers in public services
    Hard work, snitching or pot luck? How I became a council director

  • A fire engine heads to London's Aldgate East tube station

    Devolution could be just another path to privatisation of public services

  • Taxidermy at a museum

    Who runs local museums and how are they surviving the funding crisis?

  • Local government and the summer budget 2015: the key points

  • Clock off
    Stressed, angry and demonised: council staff in austerity Britain

June 2015

  • Lord Heseltine

    Never mind the cuts – grasp devolution, Heseltine tells councils

  • Woman on laptop on sofa

    Open data on council spending is largely unread by voters

May 2015

  • Lilac homes in Leeds

    Councils look to radical alternatives to solve the UK's housing crisis

    Struggling with a chronic shortage of affordable homes, councils are now looking at less conventional ways to ease the pressure on waiting lists

March 2015

  • Sold sign outside a house in Greenwich, London.

    Housing affordability ranked as most urgent issue affecting councils

    High cost of housing is council chief executives’ major concern about local areas, outranking even long-held concerns over health and social care

February 2015

  • Terraced street

    Council energy efficiency
    Going green: how councils are becoming more energy efficient

  • Man walking past polling station sign

    Britain's missing voters: why individual registration has been a disaster

January 2015

  • Natalie Elphicke

    How councils can get more homes built

    Natalie Elphicke
    Councils should be responsible for making sure there are enough homes for their residents and invest more of their pensions funds in new housing
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