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Councils call for housing policy reform in face of £2.2bn budget gap
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Councils call for legislation allowing them to host remote meetings in light of Omicron variant
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Councils call for legislative changes to charging regime for ground safety certification
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Councils call for much larger fly-tipping fines to act as deterrent, suspended sentences for repeat offenders
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Councils call for new burdens funding after pilots reveal planned assurance process for adult social care services to be “time and energy intensive”
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Councils call for permitted development rights to be urgently revoked
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Councils call for rebuilding of inclusive capacity and reformed legislative framework for SEND system
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Councils call for removal of permitted development rights amid claims more than 18,000 affordable houses lost in office-to-residential conversions
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