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...This will bankrupt councils in shire counties and London boroughs where parents have been proactive about getting access to provisions,” said James Maker, CCN policy director....
...Hogg said there had been exasperation at the council at Stoke Park altering the grounds before seeking planning permission. The council has ordered much of the changes to be undone....
...two-year MBA programmes in particular had been hit by the government’s recent tightening of visa requirements, according to Nalisha Patel, European regional director at the Graduate Management Admission Council...
...One of the organisations, Verra, said it would aim to meet standards laid out by the independent governance body, the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets....
...Money spent out of income would have been subject to VAT, council tax and stamp duty, say £200,000, leaving £1mn. This would incur an IHT charge of nearly £400,000....
.../ From Alexander Cowdell, Auckland, New Zealand Affordable opera for the shires — an outlandish idea!...
...But Labour says the levelling up funds do not compensate for 14 years of deep cuts to the annual grants given by central government to local councils....
...Auckland in New Zealand faced similar housing challenges as England before it forced councils to allow denser home-building in 2021....
...shires, rather than just holding on to previous electoral gains,” said Patrick English, associate director of politics at YouGov....
...It’s proving much harder to find a new owner for a spherical structure in Scotland: the Golf Ball in Balado Bridge, Kinross-shire....
...Though losses of council seats topped 300 by Friday afternoon, that still did not appear calamitous enough to have Tory MPs preparing to roll the dice on a leadership challenge....
...The UK planning system, under-resourced by councils starved of cash, has defaulted to being developer-led. Planners have the wherewithal only to react, not to plan....
...And by the aftermath of the second world war, with a Labour government committed to building a new Jerusalem of council houses for all, Metro-land had almost vanished from the national conversation....
...The County Councils Network welcomed his words. Just three county areas have a devolution deal — Cornwall, Northumberland and Cambridgeshire, with the latter two agreeing to have a mayor....
...DAUK is “not against data collection for research purposes,” Shire says....
...Some NSW border areas — the city of Wagga Wagga, Hay and Lockhart shires and Murrumbidgee council — are no longer included in the cross-border travel bubble and are considered “extreme risk zones” in line...
...He has pledged to force all councils to rewrite their local development blueprints and deliver 300,000 new homes a year by 2025....
...Shire districts it was £1,895....
...Boris Johnson is pushing ahead with a new US-style plan for councils to designate all land either for preservation or development, with a national target of more than 300,000 new homes a year to be divided...
...Income losses were most significant as a proportion of spending in London, where parking charges are important, and in shire district councils, which have responsibility for leisure and culture services,...
...The motive has sometimes been political, as with the large anti-unemployment free festivals organised by the Greater London Council in 1984 and 1985....
...The planning reforms will not take place overnight and Mr Johnson could face a protracted Tory revolt in the shires....
...Letter in response to this article: A poor girl in America would not have had Hill’s opportunities / From Anne Sutherland, Tain, Ross-shire, UK...
...It says it is switching to a “hub and spoke” model of distributing council offices throughout the county, and that its present 1930s Shire Hall building “is not ideal for flexible or digital working”....
...Mrs May’s party has the most to lose, with most of the ballots being held in Tory shires....
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