“Mini-Holland” feasibility studies aim to assess how the areas could be as pedestrian and cycle-friendly as their Dutch city equivalents.

Due to come into force this July, Tyneside transport chiefs have confirmed that a new Clean Air Zone (CAZ) has been postponed indefinitely.
The two authorities said they had “initiated discussions with government officials to agree a revised timeline for the launch of the CAZ”. While no new target start date for the CAZ has yet been set, installation of the scheme’s signs and technology “will progress significantly over the summer".

In the first three months of this year, 170,000 hours of home care each week could not be delivered, the survey suggests.

The government has introduced plans to transform struggling towns and cities through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

Public money used on installing off-street residential Electric Vehicle chargers is more than 15 times what has been spent on public on-street residential chargers.

Government plans to address the rights of tenants and also strengthen the rights of private renters.

Analysis of Ofsted inspection outcomes by school type  compares LA-maintained schools, academies and free schools using the Ofsted inspection grade as its primary metric.

Michael Gove confirms the introduction of “local design codes”

18,000 affordable houses lost as a result of office-to-residential conversions under permitted development, according to LGA.