Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has terminated its agreement to allow Oak Holdings to develop the £350m YES! Project next to the Rother Valley Country Park in South Yorkshire.
Advice on collection schemes, food waste recycling and public consultations are just some of the many issues to be tackled in the free seminars at this year’s Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM 10) which returns to the NEC, Birmingham from 14 to 16 September 2010.
A report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has warned that local authorities could lose over a third of central government funding over the life of the current parliament. Chris Newbould looks at the implications for the oft-overlooked highway maintenance sector.
The next step in a radical shake-up of the way disabled people use state funding took place today, as Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, named the Trailblazer areas which will test the Right to Control.
Communities Secretary John Denham welcomed today’s decision by the Audit Commission to carry out a corporate governance inspection of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
