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District Councils’ Network Responds to Planning Proposals

District Councils’ Network Responds to Planning Proposals Responding to the Government’s planning proposals announced today by the Housing Secretary, Cllr Mark Crane, District Councils’ Network lead member for stronger economies, said: “Reforming planning fees is an...

District Councils’ Network Responds to Budget

District Councils’ Network Responds to Budget Responding to measures set out by the Chancellor in today’s Budget, Cllr John Fuller OBE, Chairman of the District Councils’ Network, said: “We are pleased to see a Budget that recognises that Districts are best placed to...

Building for the future

Stronger Economies workstream report – Building for the future A joint report from the DCN and the Local Government Information Unit on the removal of the HRA cap   Building for the future – the impact of the removal of the HRA borrowing...

DISTRICT COUNCILS RESPOND TO LATEST ROUGH SLEEPING STATISTICS

DISTRICT COUNCILS RESPOND TO LATEST ROUGH SLEEPING STATISTICS Responding to latest rough sleeping figures published today, Cllr Giles Archibald, DCN Better Lives spokesperson, said: “While the number of rough sleepers has continued to fall, these are still worrying...

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