Plans for a £25 million regeneration of Birmingham’s city centre have been revealed ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

London boroughs and TfL issued 5,958,048 PCNs to motorists who they believed had contravened parking and moving traffic regulations last year.

Pupils travelling to primary schools across the capital are five times more exposed to air pollution than at any other time of the day.

A Rough Sleeping grant of £1.9 million has been awarded to six projects involving partnerships between local authorities and CCGs.

The government has launched a consultation on introducing green number plates for zero emission cars.

Esther McVey is announcing governmental plans to release data held by local bodies to enable the UK PropTech sector to thrive.

There are now 13,500 fewer polluting cars being driven into central London every day since the ULEZ was introduced six months ago.

Survivors of domestic abuse will be provided with essential support following a new legal requirement upon every council from next year.

A new deal between the West Midlands Combined Authority and Sandwell Council will unlock the biggest brownfield housing site in the region.
The equivalent of more than 32 football pitches at Friar Park in Wednesbury will be transformed into a 750-home community following the purchase of an old sewage works by the WMCA, with the former works covering just under half the overall 26.4 hectare site, with the remaining majority of the site owned by Sandwell Council.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has agreed recommendations to fund a £5.5 million redirection of cash to its children’s services.
Following an ‘inadequate’ rating from Ofsted earlier this year, the significant ‘investment in children’ will help finance the introduction of over 130 new posts in children’s services to ensure a strong focus on improving outcomes for the most vulnerable children in the city, including over 800 children who are within the care of the city council.