A selection of images representing communities.
The ten most recent reports and summaries published on the local government site.
Only business ratepayers are statutorily required to pay a BID levy while property owners can volunteer funds or other support. This second report re-examines the actual contribution made by property owners in the development and operation of BIDs.
Changes to local authority electoral arrangements, areas and names.
This document summarises the key lessons learnt from LAA negotiations in 2008. It aims to support the development of arrangements for the programme, with a particular focus on influencing the forthcoming annual review and refresh.
As set out in Strong and Prosperous Communities (2006) and the subsequent LAA Operational Guidance, each LAA will be subject to an annual review. This guidance note focuses specifically on first year review arrangements.
This report gives technical advice on the use of neighbourhood-level data to help inform regeneration activities.
This report assess key small area datasets for target setting, performance monitoring and wider contextual analysis.
This document provides an overview of what councils, LSPs, GOs, Inspectorates and central government departments will be doing to implement the new local performance framework following sign-off of Local Area Agreements in June 2008.
Lists of requests agreed and not agreed during the third LAA Round.
This analysis found that target owners' perceptions of their influence on LPSA target formulation and implementation processes were significantly linked to subsequent target achievement and reward rate.
This study, which ran from 2003 to 2007, evaluates the impacts and achievements of Local Public Service Agreements (LPSAs) and examines the processes involved in their negotiation and implementation.