46 m. ago North Lanarkshire Council announce £1.7 billion investment to transform local communities

Councillor Jim Logue, Leader of North Lanarkshire Council, hailed the investment as a “transformational step” in delivering a modern and thriving future for the area.

Economics

24 h. ago Local council borrowing £1.2 million to buy new fleet vehicles

They will be used in a number of services such as social care and highway maintenance and include six tippers costing around £220,000

Economics

51 h. ago Cost of living support for individuals and families on low incomes in six local council areas

The Scottish Government is investing more than £2 million to help support households this year.

Politics

53 h. ago New owners of Sandbanks' most expensive plot win right to demolish Arts and Crafts mansion once owned by Body Shop heiress and replace it with three luxury waterfront homes

The local council has granted permission for the controversial plans but it is unlikely they will ever actually be built.

Economics

54 h. ago West Lothian working with other councils to develop electric vehicle infrastructure

Edinburgh council is the lead local authority in a group which includes immediate neighbours in Falkirk, Mid and East Lothian as well as the Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, and Fife.

Politics

69 h. ago Union rally council claiming AI rotas are 'sabotaging' home care in South Lanarkshire

Care workers protested at the council buildings in Almada Street, Hamilton on Friday urging the local authority to overhaul how rotas and schedules are designed.

Politics

2 d. ago North Lanarkshire Council highlights several achievements in its Local Housing Strategy (LHS) annual performance update

The local authority said it had improved the quality of homes by investing more than £29m in the past year with its housing team generated £18.8m in benefits for tenants and built 460 new affordable homes - its best yearly performance to date.

Politics

3 d. ago West Lothian Council to spend £6 million on vital maintenance works on its 659 miles of roads

Over 4,500 pothole repairs were carried out in 2024

Economics

4 d. ago Perth and Kinross Council investing £750,000 in Artificial Intelligence

Council officers have been tasked with making £1 million of savings through Artificial Intelligence

Economics

4 d. ago State of roads in Bathgate worse than it’s ever been according to senior Labour councillor

Harry Cartmill had asked Gordon Brown, the council’s Roads and Transportation Service Manager to attend the monthly local Area committee to grill him on why so many roads were a patchwork of temporary repairs, worse than a “gravel farm road”.

Politics

5 d. ago Angry locals blast council over £16m bridge over that leads to 'dangerous' flood zone

Furious residents have blasted the local council for wasting £16million on a bridge aimed at cyclists and pedestrians to cross a river- that leads them to a 'dangerous mess' of thick mud that is 'pretty much unpassable'.

Events

7 d. ago UK city pub fined over £20k for blasting out ‘loud pop music with a heavy bass'

An East London pub has been fined after noise complaints from a local, claiming there was 'loud pop music with a heavy bass' - council warnings were continuously ignored

Economics

8 d. ago Largest council tax rise in Scotland confirmed as local authority imposes 15.6% hike

Ratepayers in the Falkirk Council area face a huge increase in their bills from next month as the struggling local authority attempts to balance its budget.

Economics

8 d. ago Council tax rise for people in Merthyr Tydfil county is confirmed

The budget was approved at a full council meeting held on Wednesday, March 5, meaning residents now know how much extra council tax they will have to pay in 2025/26

Economics

8 d. ago The amount of council tax people in Rhondda Cynon Taf will have to pay is going up

All councils in Wales are putting council tax up

Economics

8 d. ago Villager's fury after local council orders him to drag his bins half a mile if he wants them collected

Dave Thompson, 61, lives at the end of a long track road in the middle of the countryside and said his bins have only been emptied five times in eight months.

Politics

8 d. ago Locals go to war over fears retired businessman's plan to build new snug at his  £800,000 home in village with links to Shakespeare will block historic footpath 

EXCLUSIVE: The route just a stone's throw from the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother is allegedly under threat - from the chairman of the local parish council.

Economics

9 d. ago Pub loses fight with residents over massive tent that blocked riverbank views

A planning application to retain the marquee led to hundreds of comments being lodged with the local council and sparked a row over access

Politics

9 d. ago The infrastructure in RCT that the council is planning to spend money on next year

Full council will consider the planned three year capital programme at a meeting on Wednesday, March 5

Economics

9 d. ago Fury as Orkney Council set to increase council tax bills by an eyewatering 15%

Orkney Island residents have been left reeling after their local council confirmed its intention to hike council tax by a jaw-dropping 15 per cent in what is one of the nation's largest rises.

Economics