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Money Worries

Local authority engineers are a pretty worried bunch as they consider the implications of what has been called the tightest government spending review since Labour came to power in 1997.
  • Published:12 November 2007 15:38

Local Government File

WHAT KEEPS YOU AWAKE?

WHAT KEEPS YOU AWAKE?

We asked five senior local government engineers to confess to NCE their biggest challenges, opportunities and predictions for the future.

Local Government File

Balancing the books

Balancing the books

The Government has given local authorities more money to spend on waste management and recycling Đ but is it enough for them to fulfill new obligations asks Claire Churchard .

Local Government File

A bridge to the future

A bridge to the future

Space constraints at the Bridge Academy site in Hackney, London has led to some lateral thinking and inspiring exposed steelwork. Jessica Rowson reports

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Turning the corner

Rochdale MBC is working with the private sector to create council services that will the envy of other authorities and could even pick up work from them. Damian Arnold reports.

So, what's your plan?

More than a century since its foundation, the County Surveyor's Society continues to  reinvent itself  to meet today's challenges. Judith Cruickshank talks to current President Richard Wills.