Wirral Council has revealed plans for the transformation of Wirral through a £1 billion development opportunity.

Waveney District has published a report making a series of recommendations to improve the response to storms, after it labelled the response to January’s storm surge ‘inadequate’.

Figures from the House of Commons library have shown that seven out of 10 of the council wards with the slowest download speeds are in Wales.

The HCA has announced it will provide a £45 million loan to build over 4,500 new homes at a site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough devolution deal has been agreed, with a new mayor to be elected on 4 May.

A new Keep Wales Tidy survey has revealed that collecting and disposing of litter discarded on Welsh roads is costing £3.5 million a year.
The paper, Tackling Litter on our Roads, included responses from all 22 local authorities, with 90 per cent of respondents saying that plastic drinks bottles were a major problem and 85 per cent citing fast food packaging.

Many local authorities face being unable to meet their legal obligations to schools, the Local Government Association has warned.

Councils will gain greater flexibility to prioritise homelessness prevention under a new flexible homelessness support grant.