Local Government
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Community planning
Reform will open up new opportunities for local people to shape their neighbourhoods. The concept of community planning promises to…
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Election summary
Local council elections mirrored many of the parties’ performances at Stormont. Emma Blee analyses the results. The Alliance Party has…
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Restarting council reform
The Executive has proposed new governance arrangements, ethical standards and powers for district councils. agendaNi reviews the recommendations. A partnership…
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Planning power for councils
Edwin Poots has released details of the “most sweeping reforms to the planning system for 30 years” but other MLAs…
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Sharing power locally
Power-sharing or the lack of it becomes contentious in areas where one community is a small minority. Nationalists have claimed…
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Out from the crowd
By all accounts Northern Ireland is well represented at local government level. A total of 582 councillors sit across the…
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Southern local cuts
With 29 county councils, 75 town councils, five city councils, eight borough councils, eight regional authorities and two regional assemblies…
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Changes in the local arena
Now in its sixth year since the last poll, the local government landscape has slightly altered but not through the…
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Reform and deadlock
With reports that the new 11 councils will be postponed to 2015, as agendaNi went to press, local government reform…
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