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“This Bill will help to achieve better standards in the private rented sector through increasing the rights of tenants and enabling them to better hold landlords to account."

“Councils want to work with government to protect local places from attacks."

"We believe this is a progressive piece of legislation that would undoubtedly impact on smoking prevalence, and ultimately reduce rates of smoking-related disease."

Slow progress in insulating homes will cost Government at least £4.2 billion in energy waste over the next two years, councils warn today.

The latest round of the Local Government Association’s Behavioural Insights Programme has seen grant funding awarded to seven organisations.

“Councils are responsible for shaping their places and to do this effectively they need data about the activities and performance of the rest of the public sector (including central government) in their local authority area. Therefore, the new Local Authority Data Explorer should include a wider set of metrics in future and not just those about council performance. 

“Continued access to these EU wide databases is of vital importance and the Government and the European Union must ensure that it is maintained.”

Leisure centres could fall into a state of disrepair and even be forced to close without urgent new investment from government, councils warn today.

“Magistrates need new sentencing guidelines for fly-tipping, to make court action more worthwhile for councils and in turn, reduce fly-tipping in our communities.”

“Levelling up should be led by evidence of where crucial investment needs to go to, not based on costly competitive bids between areas."