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Guidance on the use of Sections 47, 54, 55 and 76 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
Information for local authority staff about what happens to the spending and financing data they send to central government.
Progress update explaining the process for rationalising output and outcome monitoring indicators for future funding.
Grant payments to local authorities to compensate for income losses due to COVID-19.
Business rates information letters are issued by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government at regular intervals throughout the year.
This explains the numbering system that reflects inserts and deletions based on the creation, amendment or abolition of public bodies.
Practical tips and guidance for councils.
This page brings together all available Byelaws within Essex. Please select a link to view the Byelaws.
The highways maintenance appraisal tool (HMAT) helps local highway authorities assess the economic costs and benefits of proposed maintenance.
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This section provides best practice guidance on ways to encourage and provide access to local authority land, buildings and other assets for digital deployment.
Guidance for local government and employers who need data on ethnic minority employment to set targets and monitor improvement in local areas.
Business rates information letters are issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government at regular intervals throughout the year.
This publication sets out a summary of the values and the methodology for the 2021 Area Cost Adjustment.
Statutory instruments which have been laid and identified as having impacts on local authorities.
Changes to existing legislation as part of the Local Government Finance Bill.
Publication of documents relating to development of common frameworks. Included is an overview of the delivery process and an ‘outline framework’.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This document sets out the criteria the local government pension scheme should meet when developing proposals for pooling assets.
Lessons about local authority culture and governance that can be learned from recent statutory and non-statutory interventions.
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