01 Jul, 2024 Managing change in law – Before, during and after a waste procurement process By Alex Lawrence The law is (almost) always changing. Whether that is a new case reinterpreting a long-standing doctrine or the government of the day...
17 Jun, 2024 Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023: Compulsory purchase reforms By Emma Lloyd Stuart Evans On 1 March 2024, the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities wrote to chief planning officers in Homes England and all CEOs of...
20 May, 2024 Services reviews and functions – The first step in redesigning council services By Claire Ward Full council has set the budget for 2024/25 after six months of hard work so now what? The decision to agree the budget is an...
23 Jan, 2024 Local authority companies: dissolution v dormancy By Matt Marsh In exercising its shareholder or member function in respect of a subsidiary company a local authority will be assessing the performance...
15 Jan, 2024 Outsourcing the problem: equal pay and local authority trading companies By Doug Mullen Twenty-five years after an agreement between local authorities and trade unions to tackle equal pay, and fifteen years after the deadline...
18 Dec, 2023 Best value – the fundamental duty By Claire Ward As the Government considers the consultation on the latest revision of the statutory Best Value guidance, a look back through the history...
27 Mar, 2023 Service of NSPs by local authorities By Helen Tucker A new Court of Appeal case (Birmingham City Council v Drew Bravington) has decided that local authority landlords can validly serve a...
30 Jun, 2021 New Subsidy Control Bill By Anthony Collins Exciting times for State aid/subsidies lawyers! Very much looking forward to reading this with a coffee when it's published (no, I'm not...