Communities Secretary James Brokenshire has announced plans for new housing complaints service for entire housing market.

A £41 million street lighting improvement programme continues to be part of Oxfordshire County Council’s investment plan.

Bath and North East Somerset has awarded a new Environmental Crime contract that will see specialist officers tackle litter on the streets.

The RCPCH has published a new report warning that political uncertainty and public health cuts pose risk to progress in child health policy.

The government is in serious danger of missing its targets to increase levels of cycling and walking in England.

More than 50 per cent of pupils in state-funded schools in England are now studying in an academy or free school.

The County Councils Network has rejected claims that the fair funding review unfairly favours county areas.

Coastal heritage sites are set to be saved as a total of 23 projects are to receive a share of almost £1 million from the Coastal Revival Fund.

For a week in February, a large traffic monitoring exercise is to be carried out in Liverpool as part of the council’s city-wide air quality plan.
As part of the initiative, 40 cameras will count the amount of traffic, the type of vehicles and engine types on major routes into the city using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology. This forms part of a £1.1 million government-funded programme which also includes installing air quality monitoring stations and updating modelling data for transport in the city region.

Nottingham City Council has set itself an ambitious target to become the first carbon neutral city in the UK.