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Council to appoint law firm for independent investigation into housing maintenance service
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Council to appoint legal adviser to £125k contract to support compulsory purchase for major estate regeneration scheme
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Council to appoint two law firms to cover “unusually large volume” of childcare cases
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Council to ask committee to establish “who knew what, when” over unlawful spending after s.114 notice issued
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Council to ask DEFRA for permission to seek legal action in landfill odour dispute
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Council to carry out internal review of potential land sale to financier in eye of lobbying storm
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Council to challenge decision to allow appeal over 121-home development
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Council to challenge grant of planning permission for 350-home scheme
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Council to conduct unmet demand survey after court overturns refusal of 13 taxi licences
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Council to consider adopting legal protections for rare chalk streams
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Council to consider dropping Green Belt sites from local plan after Government announcement on proposed changes to National Planning Policy Framework
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Council to consider judicial review challenge over train timetable changes
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Council to consider plan to delete Director for Governance and Regulatory Services post
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Council to consider scrapping Director of Legal and Governance post to make £150k saving
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Council to give staff refresher training on charging for adult social care after failure to give woman clear information
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Council to hire legal firm to advise on appointment of housing maintenance contractor
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Council to hire legal services provider on contract to advise on major bypass
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Council to hold independent review after information given to ex-partner
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Council to hold virtual full meeting due to Covid rise
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Council to implement action plan addressing backlog of “several hundreds” of medical priority reviews after Ombudsman finds fault in housing priority case
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