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Communities And Local Government

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2008-01-03

Communities And Local Government written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-03 with Political Science categories.

The single theme that underlies this report on the performance of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is: delivery. The DCLG faces unusual challenges as a result of how it is structured and its reliance on the performance of other departments, agencies, local authorities for the achievement of its goals set by the Government. Most of the money for which DCLG is responsible is spent for it by someone else - by over 450 local authorities, 47 local fire brigades, by large government agencies such as the soon-to-exist Homes and Communities Agency with a £2.2 billion budget. The challenge of delivery is examined under several headings: the capability review carried out by the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit; the ten public service agreements (focussing particularly on decent homes, fire and rescue services, race equality and community cohesion and gender equality); home information packs; FireLink and FiReControl, two major technology projects currently under way and both overdue and exceeding planned costs. On the Departmental report, the Committee welcomes the higher standard of the report, and the improvement in provision of full and clear information to Parliament and the public. A concern remains about the number of staff reporting feeling bullied, harassed or discriminated against.

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Community Budgets Hc 163

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-10-23

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Community Budgets Hc 163 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Political Science categories.

Community Budgets are demonstrating their potential to deliver cheaper, more integrated and more effective public services. They are at risk, however, of being replaced after a few years if key issues are not resolved. If this opportunity is missed, the Committee warns that local services could come under unsustainable pressure in the face of increased demand and reduced budgets. This in turn may result in more spending later on judicial and emergency health and welfare interventions. The Government should send a clear message that it will assist every local authority wishing to introduce Community Budgets and to set out the specific assistance it will provide them with. Furthermore, the programme of pilots must not be allowed to slow progress towards wider implementation. If they are to succeed, public service providers and local authorities must realise investment in Community Budgets will bring them benefits. Local authorities, their partners, and central government should, therefore, develop a framework for agreements on how the benefits of investment are to be shared. On the Troubled Families Programme, the Committee is supportive of the work being done but highlights the need for greater focus on how work with these families will continue after the programme ends in 2016. Noting that the resources available have not increased in proportion to the number of families added to the programme in June, DCLG needs to monitor carefully progress and provide more resources to local authorities if necessary

Communities And Local Government S Departmental Annual Report 2009 And The Performance Of The Department In 2008 09

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2010-03-05

Communities And Local Government S Departmental Annual Report 2009 And The Performance Of The Department In 2008 09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Political Science categories.

Incorporating HC 1038-i-ii, session 2008-09. The DCLG departmental annual report 2009 was published as Cm. 7598 (ISBN 9780101759823)

Government Response To The House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Report On Community Cohesion And Migration

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Author : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2008

Government Response To The House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Report On Community Cohesion And Migration written by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Political Science categories.

Dated November 2008. Government response to the Committee's 10th report, HC 369-I, session 2007-08.

Department For Communities And Local Government Memorandum Post Legislative Scrutiny Planning Act 2008 Cm 8716

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Author : Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-10-21

Department For Communities And Local Government Memorandum Post Legislative Scrutiny Planning Act 2008 Cm 8716 written by Great Britain: Department for Communities and Local Government and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-21 with Architecture categories.

The Planning Act 2008 created a new system of development consent for certain types of nationally significant infrastructure, including major energy infrastructure, railways, ports, roads, airports, water and waste projects which were deemed to be of national significance. The regime is still fairly new, with only 12 applications having gone all of the way through the system to completion. However it is clear that the new regime is working as intended and is leading to quicker planning decisions. For example the approval of Hinkley Point C was approved within the one year statutory timeframe. A large part of the reason why that decision was taken more quickly is because the Energy National Policy Statements make it clear that the construction of new low carbon electricity generation infrastructure is of crucial national importance. The regime has not stood still since it was introduced. It has been amended by the Localism Act and the Growth and Infrastructure Act. The changes made by the Localism Act - the removal of the Infrastructure Planning Commission and the restoration of Ministers as the final decision makers - are seen as restoring democratic accountability to the regime. It is too early too judge the effectiveness of the changes introduced in the Growth and Infrastructure Act.

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee The Work Of The Regulation Committee Of The Homes And Communities Agengy Hc 130

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-09-11

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee The Work Of The Regulation Committee Of The Homes And Communities Agengy Hc 130 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-11 with Architecture categories.

Despite acknowledging that a 'handful' of providers give him concern, the Regulator is reluctant to give them lower financial viability ratings, fearing that doing so might trigger an upward re-pricing of their debt. Instead, the Regulator uses governance ratings to signal concerns about financial viability. This practice lacks openness and should stop and accurate financial viability ratings should be published. The fear of triggering a re-pricing also prevents the Regulator from using many of his statutory powers, preferring to adopt informal approaches instead. This lacks transparency and risks too close a relationship developing between the Regulator and providers. The devolved administrations' housing regulators, not to mention regulators in other sectors, must encounter similar dilemmas. The Regulator should work with them to see how they have addressed his concern that the use of statutory powers could prove counter-productive. The Committee's concerns are underlined by the case of Cosmopolitan Housing Group, which came close to insolvency in 2012. The Regulator only lowered its financial viability rating for Cosmopolitan in December 2012, despite the fact that he had been monitoring the situation for months and the possibility of insolvency had been raised in the media two months previously. The report also raises concerns about how effectively the Regulator is discharging his remit for consumer regulation. Noting that of 111 complaints related to consumer standards referred to the Regulator no case of serious consumer detriment was found, the Report calls for an annual external check to be carried out to provide assurance that the Regulator is discharging his duties effectively

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Post Legislative Scrutiny Of The Greater London Authority Act 2007 And The London Assembly Hc 213

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-10-16

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Post Legislative Scrutiny Of The Greater London Authority Act 2007 And The London Assembly Hc 213 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-16 with Political Science categories.

The Assembly's main job is to hold the Mayor to account. But he can appoint Assembly Members to his cabinet while they continue to sit in the Assembly. The Report asks how the public are supposed to disentangle a situation in which an Assembly Member can hold the executive to account in one area while working on behalf of the executive in another. As a further example of inconsistency, the Report questions why Assembly Members can sit on some GLA London-wide executive bodies but not others. For example, eight Assembly Members can sit on the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority but no Assembly Member is entitled to join the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. The Mayor must be held to account for the substantial powers invested in him and the London Assembly is the right vehicle to do this, but not in its current form. The Report recommends that the Assembly should be given the power to: call in mayoral decisions; amend the Mayor's capital budgets as it can his revenue budgets; reject the Mayor's Police and Crime Plan on the same basis as it can other mayoral strategies; review and, if necessary, reject the Mayor's appointment of any Deputy Mayor. In addition Assembly members who join the Mayor's cabinet or sit on GLA boards should be required to give up their Assembly membership and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority should be reconstituted along the lines of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

Government Response To The House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Eighth Report Of Session 2012 13

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Author : Great Britain: Department of Health
language : en
Publisher: Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-07-18

Government Response To The House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Eighth Report Of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Department of Health and has been published by Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Political Science categories.

Response to HCP 694, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215055439). Dated July 2013

Department For Communities And Local Government

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
language : en
Publisher: Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-06-07

Department For Communities And Local Government written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and has been published by Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with Political Science categories.

Central government grant funding to local authorities is being cut by over a quarter in real terms (£7.6 billion) between 2011 and 2015. The Department for Communities and Local Government is also introducing fundamental changes to the local government finance system with reforms to business rates and council tax benefits, so the pressures on the sector are set to increase. The Department does not properly understand the overall impact on local services that will result from the funding reductions, nor has it modelled how funding changes may adversely affect other areas of the public sector. It must improve its ability to foresee what effects the full package of funding reductions and reforms will have on local authority areas, particularly for those authorities which face higher deprivation levels. Local authorities' statutory duties have stayed broadly the same, and in some areas, such as adult social care, the demand for services is increasing. There is a risk that the worst-affected councils will be unable to meet their statutory obligations, threatening their viability. The Department must clarify its plans to respond if councils become unviable. More information is needed to understand councils' spending and performance. The Department did not make clear how it will monitor councils' ability to cope with funding changes, or the extent to which they are able to do this by increasing efficiency rather than reducing services. Neither has it demonstrated that the information published is sufficient to provide assurance on the value for money with which councils spend their resources.

Planning Gain

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Author : Tony Crook
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-11-09

Planning Gain written by Tony Crook and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-09 with Business & Economics categories.

Winner of the Royal Town Planning Institute award for research excellence This critical examination of the development and implementation of planning gain is timely given recent changes to the economic and policy environment. The book looks both at the British context as well as experience in other developed economies and takes stock of how the policy has evolved. It examines the rationale for planning gain, how it has delivered substantial funds for infrastructure and affordable housing and, in the light of this, how it might continue to play a role in the funding of these. It also draws on overseas experience, for example on impact fees and public sector land assembly. It looks at lessons from the past for future policy, both for Britain and for countries overseas. Mechanisms to tap development value are also a global phenomenon in developed market economies - whether through formal taxation or negotiated contributions. As fiscal austerity becomes an increasingly challenging issue, ‘planning gain’ has grown in importance as a potential source of funding for infrastructure and new affordable housing, with many countries keen to examine, learn from, and adapt the experience of others. a critical commentary of planning gain as a policy timely post credit crunch analysis addresses recent planning policy changes