Aberdeen City Council has admitted to a ‘serious failing’ after it was revealed that repairs worth £200,000 were ordered to a cycle path without proper approval.

Powys Council is considering plans to build a wind farm at known beauty spot, prompting campaigners to warn the move could deter tourists visiting the region.

LWARB has launched Advance London to help London’s SMEs adopt ‘circular economy’ business models.

techUK has said that newly elected mayors should put digital at the heart of their plans to deliver the best on digital devolution.
Publishing Digital Devolution: A Guide for Mayors, which sets out a series of questions for the new Mayor to ask their team in their first 100 days, the tech organisation argues that by putting digital at the forefront of city region plans, Mayors can re-shape and integrate services, creating better places to live and drive regional growth.

Infrastructure projects worth almost £6.4 billion will be under construction throughout Scotland in 2017.

A new report by the Fawcett Society has revealed that sexism is commonplace in local government.

The Public Accounts Committee has revealed that efforts to meet targets for new free schools does not represent the best use of limited funds.
Despite ministers claiming that free schools remain key to meeting demand for school places, the committee has said that the system is ‘increasingly incoherent’ and ‘too often poor value for money’, while the government is spending ‘well over the odds’ on free schools.

A new report from The King’s Fund has outlined that the complexity of the health system in England, including the need for councils to better integrate with health services, is holding back progress in meeting the needs of people with HIV.

Edinburgh City Council has announced the operation of a new, £9 million waste depot which will help to deliver a more resilient service for the city.