Tulip Siddiq argues that increasing the number of female councillors should be a priority for a number of reasons, from justice, through to the positive effects it will have on policy and the outcome it will have in Westminster.
Central and local government are going to have to have to work together and invest in housing if we are to avoid a homelessness epidemic, writes Anna Turley.
Shamik Das reports on Tory-run Bexley council’s plans to charge kids to use a playground – following on from Tory Wandsworth’s plans to do the same last month.
Conservative-controlled Wandsworth council is planning to charge children £2.50 each to use Battersea Park adventure playground at weekends, reports Shamik Das.
Lib Dem activist Dr. Prateek Buch continues Left Foot Forward’s dispatches from the front; the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
There is still hope out there; if enough people make enough noise about buses, councils might just have to start to listen, writes Alice Ridley of the Campaign for Better Transport.
This morning, Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, writing on the ConservativeHome website, accused the Labour leader of Lambeth council of “frightening people” about cuts to essential services; here, Steve Reed responds to these criticisms, and explains just who is to blame for the cuts.
There is a sound argument to try to support greater mobility in social housing – only five per cent of social tenants moved home over the past year compared to almost a quarter of tenants in the private sector, though it is unclear what an ‘optimal’ level would be. It is also important to emphasise that it is councils and housing associations that will decide the length of tenancies, so the key question is how they will use their new freedoms.
Amidst all the coverage of the general election results Labour’s local election successes – and the collapse of many Lib-Con coalitions – has been overlooked.
Coventry council announced it will install dimmer switches on all 28,000 of the city’s street lights in a bid to cut carbon emissions and combat light pollution
