Thurrock Council's Labour administration has agreed to ask the government to cancel this year's local elections. A report by ...

Elections are due to take place on 7 May for Hampshire County Council, eight districts and boroughs (Rushmoor, Hart, ...

Residents were going to elect the first ever mayor of Sussex and Brighton, to vote for county councillors for the first time ...

That’s a hammer blow to plans to deliver growth and to get power out of Whitehall and back into local communities.

Democracy is the most profound, most fundamental civic right that should be curtailed only in the most extreme and ...

LGC asked some of the leading figures in the sector to outline their hopes or predictions for the 2026. Here is the first set of responses.

RESIDENTS, businesses and community groups in Essex have one week left to have their say on local government reorganisation. A public consultation is currently under way following Greater Essex's ...

The leaders of two Labour controlled councils have called for May's local elections to be scrapped because of Lancashire devolution. Blackburn with Darwen Council and Hyndburn Council have held ...

In counties where the shape of new unitaries is undecided, officers hesitate to commit to plans and housing delivery risks ...

Havant MP Alan Mak has voted against the Devolution Bill that would make councils more distant from local residents and ...