New housing powers for council
New housing powers for council
Oxford City Council is to push ahead with new powers that will allow it to stop family homes being converted into student digs, it was confirmed yesterday.
County council workers left unimpressed
ONLY 37% of staff would speak highly of Surrey County Council (SCC), its own findings reveal.
Trust ‘interrogated’ by council
Lisburn City Council seeks a meeting with the health minister over the reduction in opening hours of Lagan Valley Hospital’s A&E department.
Tory council says it can’t afford to run schools
Lincolnshire county council says it cannot afford to run all its schools Anti-academies campaigners will be closely watching events in Lincolnshire over the summer, as the county council seems poised to advise all its schools to become academies, warning that without this move, many of its small rural primary classrooms face closure. In what is believed to be the first development of its kind in …
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Council understand concerns
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