Local Government Chronicle
13 January 1994
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330 SCHOOL JOBS COULD GO IN SHEFFIELD FINANCE CRISIS
The Yorkshire Post (p4 January 8) continues its series of reports on 'Sheffield in Crisis' with a report that 300 j... -
90% OF COUNCILS PLAN TO RECYCLE CHRISTMAS TREES
The Guardian (p6) carries a festive story on councils' plans to recycle Christmas trees. A survey by the Community ... -
ALLERDALE VS. CREDIT SUISSE - FINAL PHASE OF LEGAL BATTLE
A marathon legal battle with millions of pounds of Lakeland ratepayers' money at stake has entered its final phase ... -
AMA CALLS FOR FUNDING OVERHAUL OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Hospital based mental health services are still receiving the lion's share of public funding - denying patients in ... -
AMA-ADC HOUSING INQUIRY CALLS FOR URGENT INVESTMENT
Ministers are clearly more interested in 'back to basics' that they are in 'back to backs' a housing inquiry was to... -
ASSOCIATIONS WARN GUMMER CAPITAL CUTS COULD HIT SCHOOLS AND HOMES
Local government leaders met Environment Secretary John Gummer yesterday and warned him that capital expenditure cu... -
AUDITOR FINDS WESTMINSTER MAY BE 'GUILTY OF GERRYMANDERING'
Westminster city council is guilty of 'gerrymandering' in its former designated sales council housing policy, The D... -
AUDITOR'S REPORT ON WESTMINSTER 'SET TO SPARK ROW'
Publication today of a summary of the District Auditor's report into allegations of vote rigging in Westminster is ... -
BALANCE OF UK VISIBLE TRADE OCTOBER 1993
The deficit on UK visible trade with EC and Non-EC countries in October is estimated to have been£0.6 billion,£0.... -
BANHAM CRITICISED OVER COMMISSION TURN AROUND OVER DERBYSHIRE
The Independent (8 January, p7) carries a story about the relationship between the chairman of the Local Government... -
BANHAM IN DERBYSHIRE DEAL WITH GOVERNMENT
Sir John Banham was prepared to abandon his commission's final proposals for new councils in Derbyshire in return f... -
BANHAM SAYS ONE TIER COUNCIL FOR CORNWALL IS POSSIBLE
The head of the Local Government Commission, Sir John Banham, has told te western Morning News in an exclusive inte... -
BARROW PUTS OUT DSO TO SITA
Barrow-in-Furness BC has privatised its direct service organisation in a deal with SITA (GB) Ltd. Barrow Council Bu... -
BCCI CREDITORS GET $100 MILLION IN US AND ABU DHABI DEAL
A further $100 million will be available to creditors of the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International af... -
BCCI MANAGER TO FACE US FRAUD CHARGES
Swaleh Naqvi, former deputy chief of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, will be charged with fraud by t... -
BELLWIN RULES SET TO WORK IN FLOOD HIT AREAS
Agriculture minister, Gillian Shephard, said on Radio Four's Today programme that the Bellwin rules are likely to c... -
BERKSHIRE CENSUS STATS - OVER 13% RENT COUNCIL HOUSES
Summary statistics on population and housing for the local government wards and civil parishes of Berkshire are pub... -
BIRMINGHAM EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME ATTACKED BY TORIES
Birmingham City council's equal opportunities programme is under fire after figures showed the number of women hire... -
BLUEPRINT AIMED AT BEATING HOUSING BENEFIT BUREAUCRACY
A new agreement to promote good practice and to help cut delays and bureaucracy in housing benefit administration w... -
BORDERS HOUSING DEAL REPORT GOES TO COMMONS COMMITTEE
The National Audit Office's investigation into the sale of local authority-managed homes in the Borders will be con... -
BOTTOMLEY ISSUES DRAFT GUIDANCE FOR COMMUNITY CARE
Virginia Bottomley, Secretary of State for Health, today issued for consultation new draft guidance to health and l... -
BOWIS PROMISES 'RIGOROUS MONITORING' OF COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES
John Bowis, Parliamentary Secretary at the Department of Health today said that he would look at the recommendation... -
BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD 'COULD IMPROVE EFFICIENCY'
Corporate Affairs Minister Neil Hamilton today announced publication of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC)... -
BUSINESS RATES COULD BE CUT BY£95 MILLION NEXT YEAR
Local business rate bills could be cut by about£95 million next year, it emerged during the debate on the Governme... -
CALDERDALE FERTILITY COUPLE TO ADOPT AFTER ALL
A childless couple who were told they could not be foster parents because they were receiving fertility treatment h... -
CALDERDALE TAKES SECOND LOOK AT FOSTERING POLICY
Calderdale social services has agreed to review a strict policy banning all couples using fertility treatment from ... -
CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNCILS ANNOUNCE SCRUTINY OF REVIEW OPTIONS
District councils in Cambridgeshire with the county council have announced the options which they will be evaluatin... -
CENSUS STATISTICS FOR WEST MIDLANDS PUBLISHED
Summary statistics on population and housing for the local government wards and civil parishes of West Midlands are... -
CHANGES TO HOMELESSNESS LAWS TO LOOSEN COUNCIL RESPONSIBILITY
Plans to loosen the government's homeless laws to allow councils to discharge their duties to the homeless by placi... -
CLWYD CC HOLDS INTERNAL INQUIRY INTO CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
Clywd CC is to hold its own internal inquiry into child abuse allegations which involved some of its former childre... -
CODE AGREED FOR ABOLITIONS
The local authority associations are preparing a financial code of conduct for councils facing reorganisation, aime... -
CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHIEF DEFENDS COUNCIL HOUSE DEAL MP
Conservative Party Vice Chairman Dame Angela Rumbold yesterday defended Alan Duncan, the MP who made a substantial ... -
CORLESS CONFIRMED AS GENERAL SECRETARY OF MPO UNION
Graham Corless has been elected unopposed as general secretary of MPO, the Federated Union of Managerial and Profes... -
COUPLE BUY COUNCIL'S LISTED HOUSE FOR A FIVER
The Times (p7) reports that Wigan MBC has sold a listed country house for only£5 to a couple who outbid others who... -
CREDIT BUSINESS NOVEMBER 1993
Net lending to consumers fell slightly to£290 million in November from£312 million in October, according to figur... -
CROYDON FITS SEAT BELTS TO MINIBUSES AND DROPS 3 TO A SEAT RULE
Croydon LBC has announced that it is spending about£75,000 on fitting all of its fleet of minibuses with seat belt... -
CUTBACKS LEAD TO REDUCED COUNCIL TAX BILLS FOR TORBAY
Torbay council says it will be able to reduce council tax bills in May due to spending cuts and staff reductions, t... -
DEFECTIVE HOUSES SOLD UNDER RIGHT TO BUY SCHEME (HANSARD - DoE)
Housing minister, Sir George Young, gave details of the number of homes, classified as defective under the 1985 Hou... -
DEVON CENSUS STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY
Summary statistics on population and housing for the local government wards and civil parishes of Devon are publish... -
'DISGRACE FOR DAME SHIRLEY' SAYS EVENING STANDARD
The London Evening Standard says that former Westminster council leader Dame Shirley Porter was found guilty of wil... -
DORSET CC SELLS WASTE CONTRACT TO DEVELOP ENERGY PLANT
Dorset CC has sold its waste disposal contract to a local firm, Drinkwater Sabey. ... -
DTI DELAYS DEADLINE FOR SIZEWELL OBJECTIONS IN SUFFOLK
The Department of Trade and Industry and Nuclear Electric has agreed to delay the deadline for local authorities to... -
DURHAM GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO WASTE FUELLED POWER STATION
Durham CC granted planning permission to a power station fuelled by gas from decomposing waste, which would have th... -
EAST LONDON GM SCHOOL FACES STANDARDS PROBE
Stratford School in east London will be investigated by government inspectors as the first grant-maintained school ... -
EAST SUSSEX RESIDENTS SUPPORT COUNTY IN MORI POLL
Residents of East Sussex generally identify more strongly with their county than with their district or borough, ac... -
EDINBURGH CHIEF EXECUTIVE BOWS OUT
Edinburgh City Council has terminated the contract of its chief executive Paul Lowenberg after lengthy negotiations... -
EDINBURGH COUNCILLORS IN COURT BID OVER DISCIPLINARY ACTION
A group of nine Edinburgh Labour councillors who defied the group leadership are to start a court action today in o... -
EDINBURGH COUNCILLORS TO HEAR DISCIPLINE RULING TODAY
Nine Edinburgh district Labour councillors will find out today whether they have succeeded in halting action which ... -
ENVIRONMENT GROUP CLAIMS AIR POLLUTION MONITORING UNDERFUNDED
Local authorities need more government funding to enable them to monitor air pollution, according to a report from ... -
ENVIRONMENT MINISTER URGES GREATER ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Environment Minister Robert Atkins today urged everyone to play their part in saving energy and therefore cut down ... -
ESSEX LIB-DEMS PROTEST AGAINST NEW REGIONAL DIRECTORS
Essex Liberal Democrat councillors have expressed concern that the appointment of the new eastern regional director... -
FLEXIBLE PLANNING FEES TO LIGHTEN TAX BURDEN
Councils are to be allowed to set their own fees for processing planning applications, Local Government and Plannin... -
FOREIGN HOLIDAYS FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS GIVEN GREEN LIGHT
The young offenders home criticised for sending juveniles on safari holidays is to have its operating license renew... -
FOUR OUT OF FIVE COUNCIL TAX APPEALS TO BE CLEARED IN 1994
Four out of five council tax appeals should be cleared by the end of the year, Environment Minister Tony Baldry has... -
FTSE INDEX 3361.1 AT 10AM DOWN 10.9 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3361.1 AT 10AM DOWN 10.9 ON START OF DAY.... -
FTSE INDEX 3397.7 AT 11AM DOWN 16.1 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3497.7 AT 11AM DOWN 16.1 ON START OF DAY.... -
FTSE INDEX 3402.5 AT 9.30AM DOWN 0.5 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3402.5 AT 9.30AM DOWN 0.5 ON START OF DAY.... -
FTSE INDEX 3431.1 AT 3.15PM DOWN 15 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3431.1 AT 3.15PM DOWN 15 ON START OF DAY.... -
FTSE INDEX 3431.6 AT 10AM DOWN 9 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3431.6 AT 10AM DOWN 9 ON START OF DAY.... -
FTSE INDEX 3439 AT 9.30AM DOWN 7 ON START OF DAY
STOCK EXCHANGE: FTSE INDEX 3439 AT 9.30AM DOWN 7 ON START OF DAY.... -
GLOUCESTERSHIRE BANS OVERSEAS TRIPS FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS
Gloucester CC, who allowed a young offender on a 80-day safari holiday, has banned such trips until the social serv... -
GLOUCESTERSHIRE SAFARI TRIP TEENAGER SENT BACK TO CHILDREN'S CENTRE
A teenager who was sent on a£7,000 character building safari trip to Africa while awaiting sentence for a string o... -
GLOUCESTERSHIRE STOPS OVERSEAS TRIPS FOR YOUNGSTERS IN CARE
Gloucester CC has suspended the practice of sending young offenders on overseas trips, the Times reports (p2). ... -
GOVERNMENT LOOKS AT DECENTRALISING COUNCIL PENSION SCHEMES
The Government has drawn up an action plan to deliver improvements and more flexibility to the pension scheme for u... -
GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASES ISSUED 11 JANUARY 1994
CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE: CREDIT BUSINESS NOVEMBER 1993; BALANCE OF UK VISIBLE TRADE OCTOBER 1993 ... -
GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASES ISSUED 12 JANUARY 1994
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: FOUR OUT OF FIVE TAX APPEALS TO BE DEALT WITH ... -
GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASES ISSUED 6 JANUARY 1994
SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY: NATIONAL CURRICULUM CHANGES: A NEW DEAL ... -
GOVERNMENT PRESS RELEASES ISSUED 7 JANUARY 1994
SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY: DEARING COMMENTS ON 'IMMENSE STRENGTH' OF EDUCATION SYSTEM ... -
'GOVERNMENT SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON RECYCLING INDUSTRY WASTE'
Government efforts to boost recycling would be better spent on getting industrial rather than domestic waste recycl... -
GREEN SHOOTS OF RECOVERY NEEDED FOR URBAN AREAS - ENGLISH NATURE
English Nature has issued a Local Authority Wildlife Pack so councils can adopt a more positive approach to issues ... -
GRIMSBY UPSET OVER EC CLAIM THAT THE SEAPORT SMELLS
Grimsby is upset over the fact that under European Community rules the town is found to smell, the Times reports (p... -
GUMMER FINANCE STATEMENT RATHER THAN CURRY ON WESTMINSTER
Although Local Government Minister David Curry was expected to make a statement on the 1982 Local Government Financ... -
GUMMER STATEMENT ON WESTMINSTER AUDITOR'S REPORT
Environment Secretary John Gummer this afternoon made a statement on the Local Government Finance Act 1982 in conne... -
GWENT SUES WELSH SECRETARY
Gwent CC is to take Welsh Secretary John Redwood to court following a long running dispute over the county's budget... -
HARROGATE RETENDERS CEMETERIES CONTRACT
Harrogate BC is to retender a contract for the maintenance of cemeteries after its chosen contractor pulled out lat... -
HOUSEBUILDING FIGURES FROM DoE FOR NOVEMBER 1993
In November 1993, it is provisionally estimated that 15,900 dwellings were started in Great Britain compared with 1... -
HOVE PLANNING DIRECTOR QUESTIONS BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS
In a letter to the Independent (p15) Michael Ray, director of planning with Hove BC, questions the building of hous... -
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DRIVE IN SCHOOLS SET TO CONTINUE - FORTH
By April 1994 the Government will have spent£165m on IT in schools and a further 22m will be supported in 1994-95,... -
INITIAL REVIEW MEETINGS IN CORNWALL AND WARWICKSHIRE
Local meetings to explain the local government review process have been announced for Cornwall and Warwickshire. ... -
INQUIRY INTO WASTE SITE NEAR CARDIFF AIRPORT HEARS OF AIRCRAFT RISK
The Financial Times (p8) in a report on an application by Blue Circle Industries to use a disused quarry near Abert... -
ISLINGTON LOSES IN SWAPS APPEAL
Islington LBC has lost its appeal against a high court ruling that it must repay£1.1 million it earned from a Germ... -
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA IN LEGAL ROW OVER DUSTMEN SACKING
Kensington and Chelsea LBC is facing industrial and legal action after sacking 70 of its refuse collectors in a row... -
KENSINGTON BINMEN REINSTATED AFTER CHRISTMAS TIP ROW
Seventy sacked refuse men have been reinstated in Kensington and Chelsea LBC, but three others face a disciplinary ... -
LABOUR ATTACKS '20% CUT' IN CAPITAL SPENDING OVER PAST DECADE
The Financial Times reports (P8) on Labour's attack on the government yesterday that local authority capital projec... -
LABOUR DUBS WESTMINSTER AUDIT REPORT DELAY AS DENIAL OF INFORMATION
The suppression of a district auditor's report into alleged electoral manipulation by Westminster city council is a... -
LABOUR INQUIRES INTO SALE OF WESTMINSTER COUNCIL HOUSE TO MP
Labour is pressing to see Westminster City Council files on the sale of a property now owned by Alan Duncan, who re... -
LABOUR MPS TO DISRUPT BILL ON BUSINESS RATES
The bill which sets the level of business rates for the next financial year is to be targeted by Labour politicians... -
LABOUR SEEKS FILE ON SALE OF WESTMINSTER COUNCIL HOUSE LINKED TO MP
Labour is seeking a file on the sale of the£300,000 Westminster city council house bought by a neighbour of Tory M... -
LABOUR SWING IN BARROW IN FURNESS BY ELECTION
A by-election in Barrow in Furness led to a 23% swing to Labour last night, the Guardian reports (P3), leaving Tori... -
LABOUR TO FIGHT COURT RULING OVER EDINBURGH REBELS
The Labour Party will challenge a court order blocking its disciplinary action against nine Labour councillors who ... -
LAMBETH EDUCATION DIRECTOR COULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR LOSSES
Lambeth LBC Director of Education Bebb Burchell may be held liable for more than£800,000, the sum lost by the coun... -
LAMBETH LIABLE FOR£800,000 EDUCATION 'OVERSPEND'
The Daily Mail carries a story (p17) claiming that Lambeth's Director of Education has mistakenly overpaid teachers... -
LANCASHIRE CC THREATENED WITH LEGAL ACTION OVER THORP
British Nuclear Fuels is threatening to sue Lancashire CC over its bid to reverse the government's decision to appr... -
LANCASHIRE WIN RIGHT TO JUDICIAL REVIEW INTO THORP
Environmental activists Greenpeace and Lancashire CC today won leave to mount a High Court challenge of the Governm... -
LARGE HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS COULD CREATE 2000'S 'SLUM' HOUSING
The use of housing associations as key housing providers instead of local authorities could recreate the 'old evils... -
LARGER UNITARIES MAY NOT BE CHEAPER WARNS REPORT
The Audit Commission has told the Local Government Commission it is wrong to believe larger unitary councils cost l... -
'LEAVE COUNTIES ALONE IS MAIN SURVEY FINDING'
Leaving county structures as they are seems to be the main conclusion of a survey by MORI under the Local Governmen... -
LEICESTER AND SALFORD CEMENT BOND FUTURE
Leicester and Salford city councils are leading local government into the sterling bond market after winning cleara... -
LIB DEMS ESCAPE EXPULSION IN TOWER HAMLETS RACISM ROW
The Liberal Democrats Party has decided not to expel two party workers accused of producing racist leaflets in the ... -
LINCOLN COUNCILLORS APPROVE PLANS FOR£30M UNIVERSITY
Councillors in Lincoln have given outline planning permission for a university costing£30 million be built in the ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITIES RUSH TO SELL OFF BUS COMPANIES
Local authorities are rushing to sell off bus companies, reported the Financial Times (8 January, p4). ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITY MONEY MARKET RATES, 10 JANUARY 1994 8.30AM
Local authority money market rates supplied by Sterling Brokers Ltd. ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITY MONEY MARKET RATES, 11 JANUARY 1994 8.30AM
Local authority money market rates supplied by Sterling Brokers Ltd. ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITY MONEY MARKET RATES, 12 JANUARY 1994 8.30AM
Local authority money market rates supplied by Sterling Brokers Ltd. ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITY MONEY MARKET RATES, 13 JANUARY 1994 8.30AM
Local authority money market rates supplied by Sterling Brokers Ltd. ... -
LOCAL AUTHORITY MONEY MARKET RATES, 6 JANUARY 1994 9.00AM
Local authority money market rates supplied by Sterling Brokers Ltd. ... -
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE STATEMENT DUE AT 3.30PM
Local Government Finance minister David Curry is to make a statement on the Local Government Finance Act 1982 at 3.... -
LONDON SINGLED OUT FOR CUTS IN HOUSING FUNDING
London has suffered some of the worst cuts in next year's housing capital allocations, Housing Minister Sir George ... -
LORD MACKAY GETS LORDS TRANSPORT POST IN MINOR RESHUFFLE
Following the resignation of Lord Caithness as transport minister in the Lords the government announced today that ... -
MAJORITIES IN FAVOUR OF UNITARY AUTHORITIES
The results of the MORI poll carried out on behalf of the Local Government Commission on people's preferences in Li... -
MAJORITY OPPOSE REFORM TO HOMELESS LAWS
Councils oppose government plans to review the homelessness legislation, according to a survey by the Institute of ... -
MANCHESTER CRASH VICTIMS WERE IN CARE OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Four teenage runaways in a stolen car who were injured in a crash early yesterday - two seriously - were in the car... -
MANCHESTER SUPERTRAM OUTPERFORMS FORECAST
Manchester's Metrolink 'supertram' system, run by a public/private sector consortium, is proving more successful th... -
MAYOR OF STOURPORT SEEKS RELEASE FROM ELECTION FRAUD SENTENCE
A town's civic chief given a shock six-month jail sentence for a local election fraud, was appearing before three A... -
MERCURY ASSET MANAGEMENT TO BUY PART OF RIVER AND MERCANTILE
Mercury Asset Management has agreed in principle to buy the fund management business of River and Mercantile Trust,... -
MP COULD FACE HUGE COUNCIL TAX BILL FOR WESTMINSTER COUNCIL HOME
The London Evening Standard reports (p2) that Westminster LBC is to investigate if Tory MP, Alan Duncan, used for b... -
NEARLY A THIRD OF UK ELIGIBLE FOR EUROPEAN AID
Nearly a third of the UK's population is now eligible to receive European Union regional aid because of high unempl... -
NEW GUIDANCE ON TRAFFIC CALMING PUBLISHED
Three new Traffic Advisory Leaflet on traffic calming were recently published by the Department of Transport. They... -
NEW GUIDANCE ON TRAFFIC CALMING PUBLISHED
Three new Traffic Advisory Leaflet on traffic calming were recently published by the Department of Transport. They... -
NEW POWERS TO SILENCE ALARMS
Environmental health officers will be able to break into cars to switch off alarms as part of new powers to combat ... -
NORTH EAST RESIDENTS CONFUSED OVER RESTUCTURING PLANS
People who live in the three counties which are next to be restructured by the Local Government Commission are deep... -
NORTH YORKSHIRE CC'S£2.4M ROAD GRITTING BUDGET RUNS OUT
North Yorkshire CC's£2.4 million road budget has run out of funds in the face of the worst winter for 12 years, th... -
NUT ACCEPTS OFFER FOR BOYCOTT TALKS
The National Union of Teachers has accepted an invitation to discuss a two year moratorium on statutory testing and... -
OPERATIONS IN THE MONEY MARKETS - REPOS AND SECURED LOANS
The Bank of England has announced today new repo and secured loan facilities to replace the temporary facilities wh... -
PARISH COUNCILLOR NOMINATES LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVIEW TO CHARTER 88
In a letter to the Guardian (p21) a parish councillor from Newark, Nottinghamshire says that she has nominated the ... -
PEER TO TABLE AMENDMENT ON WALES BILL OVER TRADING STANDARDS
Conservative peer Lord Elton is to table an amendment to the bill for the reorganisation of local government in Wal... -
POLICE BODIES' SKILL BASE UNDER THREAT
The government's plans to change the composition of police authorities will dilute their local community links and ... -
POLICE CHIEF WARNS OF 'CREEPING PRIVATISATION'
The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers yesterday attacked the 'creeping privatisation' of the po... -
POWYS SCOTCHES RUMOURS OF NEW AGE TRAVELLER CAMPING SITE
Powys CC is refuting suggestions that it is considering creating permanent sites for new age travellers, the Wester... -
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Dr Jan Pentreath, Chief Scientist of the National Rivers Authority, is to be seconded to the Department of the Envi... -
PRIVATE SECTOR HELP TO REBUILD SOUTHWARK ESTATES
Proposals being discussed by Southwark LBC and the Department of the Environment to tackle one of London's most con... -
PROGRESS ON GOVERNMENT'S BIGGEST LONDON WIDE QUESTIONNAIRE
Environment secretary, John Gummer, reported in a parliamentary written answer (11 January, p14) that nearly 9,000 ... -
PUBLIC INQUIRY SET FOR SCOTTISH ISLE 'SUPERQUARRY'
The Independent reports (p2) that a public inquiry is to be held into plans for a£60m 'superquarry' on the Outer H... -
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY SET TO RISE IN SPITE OF FREEZE
Local government workers will get pay rises of 2%-3% in 1994-95 despite the pay freeze which the government hopes t... -
PUBLIC WORKS LOAN BOARD RATES OF INTEREST TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Lending rates on and after 11 January for quota loans. M = repayable by maturity. A = repayable by annuity. EIP = e... -
RECYCLING HAS BECOME FINANCIAL BURDEN SAYS EDINBURGH COUNCILLOR
In a letter to the Scotsman (p13) Ian Parry, of Edinburgh DC's Environmental services committee warns that councils... -
REPORT ON MAJOR ACCIDENT AT BRADFORD CHEMICAL PLANT
'A major fire could have been prevented had two incompatible chemicals, forming a highly flammable and explosive mi... -
RETREAT EXPECTED ON VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
The Guardian reports (p4) on a looming government retreat on its new system of vocational qualifications. ... -
ROAD DEATHS FALL BY 11% IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 93
According to provisional figures published today, there were 956 deaths in personal injury road accidents in the th... -
SCHEME TO SPONSOR STUDENTS
The local government student sponsorship scheme is to be run again this year and councils are now invited to apply ... -
SCHOOLS 'TAKING AWAY' CHILDREN'S LIFESAVING INHALERS
In a report on pollution and the health of the nation, The Times (p8) says that the scandal of schools refusing to ... -
SCOTTISH COMMISSION TO OVERSEE COUNCIL REFORMS TO BE CREATED
The Scottish Office yesterday invited the submission of names for a commission which will oversee the issues affect... -
SCOTTISH COUNCILS MOVING CLOSER TO TALKS WITH LANG OVER REFORM
Scottish councils are moving closer to having talks with Scottish Secretary Ian Lang over the planned reform of loc... -
SCOTTISH COUNCILS TO CONTRACT OUT LEGAL WORK BY APRIL 1998.
Councils in Scotland will have to contract out legal work to the private sector by April 1998 after a phase-in peri... -
SCOTTISH OFFICE SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR STAFF COMMISSION
The Scottish Office today wrote to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and to the Scottish Trades ... -
SELECT COMMITTEES 11 JANUARY TO 19 JANUARY
Select committee hearings from 11 January to 19 January likely to be of interest to local government are: ... -
SHELLFISH FOOD SAFETY CODE OF PRACTICE PUBLISHED
A further Code of Practice entitled 'Enforcement of the Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) Reg... -
SHIRES MUST GO AHEAD WITH LOW VALUE TENDERS
The government has modified its proposals for exemption from compulsory competitive tendering during local governme... -
SINGLE REGENERATION BUDGET FOR LONDON SET FOR APRIL (HANSARD DoE)
Twenty existing government programmes will be brought together in a single regeneration budget in April 1994, repor... -
SOMERSET CC ACCUSED OF REFUSE SITE MISMANAGEMENT
Somerset CC has been accused of wasting£800,000 on buying land for a refuse dump, and local protesters are calling... -
SOMERSET COUNCILLOR EMBROILS LIB DEMS IN FURTHER RACE ROW
The Daily Express reports (p14) on a new race row which has erupted for the Liberal Democrats yesterday after a Som... -
SOMERSET LATEST TO REQUEST JUDICIAL REVIEW
Somerset CC has become the fourth county to legally challenge the review of shire council boundaries after the Loca... -
SOUTH TYNESIDE GIVES GLASS FIRM MORE TIME OVER GREEN BELT SITE
South Tyneside BC has given an award winning company which faced enforcement action over its use of green belt land... -
SOUTHWARK TENDER MARRED BY REDUNDANCY ROW
Bids were due in yesterday for a contract to run the revenues and benefits operation of Southwark LBC in the bigges... -
STORY OF THE LITTLE CHICHESTER RIVER THAT ROARED
The Independent (p21) carries a report on the flooding of Chichester caused by heavy rain in recent weeks. It says ... -
STRATHCLYDE RC PREPARES POLL ON TRANSFER OF WATER SERVICES
Strathclyde RC may put government proposals to remove water and sewerage service from local authority control to a ... -
TEACHERS' UNION REJECTS CALL TO END TEST BOYCOTT
The National Union of Teachers has again called for the abandonment of national curriculum tests, increasing the pr... -
THINK TANK SAYS PRIVATE LAWYERS SHOULD DRAFT BILLS
Private sector lawyers should take over the drafting of key British laws, a leading think tank said this week. A pa... -
TODAY IN PARLIAMENT - 11 JANUARY 1994
The Finance Bill will be published. ... -
TODAY IN PARLIAMENT 13 JANUARY 1994
Transport Secretary John Macgregor is likely to make an announcement on the future of the British Transport Police.... -
TODAY IN PARLIAMENT, 12 JANUARY 1994
The Social Security Bill will have its first reading in the Commons today. It will be published tomorrow. ... -
TORIES ABANDONED PUBLIC MORALITY OVER WESTMINSTER, SAYS STRAW
Jack Straw, Shadow environment secretary, spoke strongly today on the District Auditor's report on Westminster LBC'... -
TOWER HAMLETS STANDS BY EMBATTLED MEMBERS
Tower Hamlets LBC's ruling Liberal Democrats group is standing by a council member and two activists expelled by th... -
TURF CUTTERS NEED PLANNING PERMISSION RULES WELSH OFFICE
A Welsh Office inspector has ruled that farmers need planning permission to carry out commercial turf cutting, The ... -
TWO NEW COMMISSIONERS NAMED
A former Labour council leader and a former Tory junior DoE minister were last month appointed to the Local Governm... -
TWO TIER SYSTEM HAS POPULAR VOTE, SAYS ACC
Local people have rejected dismantling the existing two-tier system of local government in Humberside, Lincolnshire... -
UK POLICY ON EXPORT OF RECOVERABLE HAZARDOUS WASTE
Robert Atkins, Minister of State for the Environment and Countryside, today stressed that hazardous waste going for... -
UNISON AGREES RECRUITING DEAL WITH MANPOWER PLC
Public sector union, UNISON, has reached an agreement with Manpower PLC, the employment services company, which wil... -
UNITARIES FAVOURED BY PUBLIC SAYS DISTRICTS AFTER LATEST POLLS
The public in Humberside, North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire want one council instead of two running local services, ... -
WAKEFIELD LOSES COURT BATTLE OVER COCKERELS' CROWING
Wakefield MBC, which spent more than£20,000 on trying to silence three cockerels is to let them 'carry on crowing'... -
WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, SAYS DEARING
'We have so much in our educational system to give us confidence for the future,' said Sir Ron Dearing today. ... -
WELSH CCT FROZEN A FURTHER SIX MONTHS
The moratorium on compulsory competitive tendering in Wales for services covered by the Local Government Act 1988 h... -
WELSH COUNCIL TURNS BACK ON SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT
The Western Mail (p5) carries a story about council leaders in Cynon valley, the 'poorest' valley in Wales, who hav... -
WELSH SHARE£55M DEVELOPMENT MONEY
All 45 councils in Wales have won a share in the government's new£55 million package aimed at revitalising Welsh c... -
WELSH WARNED THERE WILL BE NO 'GRAVY-TRAIN' AFTER REVIEW
The local government gravy-train of 1974 will not be repeated when unitary authorities are created in Wales, Welsh ... -
WEST GLAMORGAN APPROVES CONTROVERSIAL YOUTH SECURE UNIT
A controversial secure unit for young people was given the go-ahead yesterday by West Glamorgan CC, the Western Mai... -
WEST LANCASHIRE DC CONSERVATIVES CONDEMNED IN EARLY DAY MOTION
An early day motion laid in the House of Commons today by six MPs led by Colin Pickthall, Labour MP for Lancashire ... -
WEST SUSSEX WORKERS HELP IN CHICHESTER FLOODS BATTLE
Most of Saturday's papers carry acounts of the flooding affecting Southern England. ... -
WESTMINSTER CITY LABOUR GROUP WELCOMES AUDITOR'S REPORT
Westminster Labour councillors and the formal objectors to the council's designated sales housing policy have welc... -
WESTMINSTER 'GERRYMANDERING' REPORT DUE OUT THIS WEEK
Dame Shirley Porter, ex-leader of Westminster City Council, has hired the former Bar Council chairman, Anthony Scri... -
WESTMINSTER LBC - FULL AUDIT COMMISSION STATEMENT
The Audit Commission issued a statement today regarding objections to Westminster LBC's designated sales policy. ... -
YARDLEY GETS KNIGHTHOOD IN HONOURS
David Yardley, chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England, has been awarded a knighthood in Joh...
