Councillors have approved Jo Walker's appointment as chief executive of Gloucestershire County Council on a yearly salary of £189,000 ...

Surely, the horse goes before the cart!" Nearly two years since it officially replaced Somerset County Council and the four district councils, Somerset Council is still running on multiple different ...

In December, Lib Dem-lead North Somerset Council also proposed a 15 ... And Tory-run Hampshire County Council, which faces a £182million deficit and has 1.4million residents, has asked ministers ...

Plans are set to be confirmed at a Full Council budget setting meeting to be held at Somerset County Cricket Club on March 5, 2025. Somerset Council is one of 15 councils across the South West ...

Leicestershire County Council says it intends to increase its share of council tax bills by 4.99% from April. The authority said the rise - the maximum allowable under government rules - was ...

The Conservative leader of Surrey County Council, Tim Oliver, said a business case for reorganisation would be developed and a draft submitted to the government in March. "I can be absolutely ...

Plans are set to be confirmed at a Full Council budget setting meeting to be held at Somerset County Cricket Club on March 5, 2025. Somerset Council is one of 15 councils across the South West that ...

initially proposed by North Somerset Council and Somerset County Council, four of the schemes fall on the county council (now Somerset Council) side of the boundary. Many of the chosen stretches or ...

The impact of population size and geography for unitary council was also never commissioned. At the time, the merger of the former Somerset County Council and four district councils was intended ...