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Local Authority leaders and frontline community workers were this week invited to a reception in Downing Street to mark the start of the Government's groundbreaking initiative to turn around the lives of troubled families.
How Solent Local Enterprise Partnership is tackling the skills gap in Solent.
Baroness Newlove has joined local residents in Havering, North East London to celebrate the opening of a new 'Community Shop' set-up to give local people a greater role in solving local problems.
Shortlisted areas are named for the 'Whole-Place' and 'Neighbourhood-level' Community Budgets pilots.
On Monday 21 November 2011 Communities Minister Andrew Stunell joined construction workers from B4Box - a Salford-based social enterprise and building company - at a former empty terraced home currently being renovated in the city.
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has fired the starting pistol in the race to get Britain warmed up for London 2012 and plan Street Games.
Responses from organisations to the Localism Bill receiving Royal Assent.
The Government's new national 'Homeswap Direct' scheme will make it easier for social tenants living in a social to find a new home in another part of the country.
Communities and Local Government minister Bob Neill met with business leaders and local government members in Trafford today to discuss how neighbourhood planning at Trafford Park can help to stimulate growth in the local area.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has provided further details following the Chancellor's announcement on supporting councils to freeze council tax next year.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark are urging Local Enterprise Partnerships to push for local growth and to challenge Whitehall for the powers and freedoms they need at an inaugural summit in London.
This week marks one month since the worst of the rioting hit the streets of some of our biggest cities. Since then, councils have been pulling out all the stops to get affected areas back to normal.
Planning Minister Greg Clark met with Fiona Reynolds of the National Trust as part of the draft National Planning Policy Framework consultation.
Community Pubs minister Bob Neill attended the country's biggest beer festival at Earl's Court yesterday where he outlined plans that could help ensure cherished locals stay open following a sale.
Watch a video to see how residents in Sheffield have benefited from the country's first charity run Post Office after their local facility unexpectedly closed in August 2009.
Communities Minister Bob Neill spoke about the enormous economic potential of the great British seaside in a speech at the first ever international conference for coastal communities.
Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill emphasised the important role of the Great British pub to the economic and social vibrancy of communities on a visit to the locally owned and run Westerham Brewery and The Royal Oak pub in Crockham Hill, Kent.
The proposed legal changes that will cancel the unfair, retrospective business rate payments on businesses, including those affected within ports, were published on 14 June 2011, Local Government Minister Bob Neill has announced.
A group of 50 Volunteers in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, have worked with the local council to keep their Tourist Information Point open.
Housing and Local Government Minister Grant Shapps today told councillors not to let back seat bureaucracy steer them off course on the road to greater town hall autonomy.
