Residents in shire counties will be paying £76 more than the national average of £1,750.

Dan Burke, partner at PriceWaterhouseCooper, has said that local authorities have "a lot more to do" in order to prepare for Brexit.

An increase in local authority highway maintenance budgets is stemming the decline in the condition of the local road network, according to this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey.

Coastal Communities and Revival Funds will see 26 projects receive over £36 million in funding to help develop and improve tourist attractions

50:50 Limited Liability Partnership is set to be established over a 30-years

1817 buses are expected to be retrofitted to bring buses up to low emission standards

The UK’s recycling infrastructure is not set up to cope with packaging materials from a growth in online retail, packaging manufacturer DS Smith has claimed.
The company's Tipping Point report suggess that the UK will not meet a 65 per cent municipal waste recycling target until 2048 – more than a decade after the EU Circular Economy Package’s 2035 goal.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report released today states that income tax seems the most promising candidate for partial devolution.
Taking control: which taxes could be devolved to English local government? looks at the taxes currently devolved to local government in England and in other countries; sets out criteria which can be used to assess whether different taxes and tax powers are in fact suitable for devolution; applies these to a range of taxes; and looks at how much could be raised in different parts of England from different options.

The Local Government Association has called for continued funding for the Troubled Families programme after an evaluation found the scheme has helped hundreds of thousands of families.

Assessors working for Lambeth, Kingston and Barking and Dagenham created false housing benefit claims over a period of six years