News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

• New LLG President announced at AGM

  Publish date: 06/04/2020

  Quentin Baker of Hertfordshire County Council announced as the new President of LLG - view his acceptance speech below

• View Now - Webinar - Coronavirus: Employment and Commercial Impacts for Local Authorities

  Publish date: 03/04/2020

• ONLINE Q and A session for Local Authority Housing Lawyers about the Covid-19 Emergency

  Publish date: 03/04/2020

  LLG and Stephen Evans, Housing Barrister at Five Paper, will look to answer your questions regarding housing law during the COVID-19 emergency

• Outgoing President's Speech at AGM 3 April 2020

  Publish date: 03/04/2020

  Phillip Horsfield, outgoing LLG President, makes his final Presidential speech at the AGM

• New Presidential and Directors appointments confirmed at LLG AGM

  Publish date: 03/04/2020

  Following the first ever virtual AGM, LLG have a newly appointed Presidential team and Directors - full details below.

• The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

  Publish date: 02/04/2020

  They Regulations come into force on 4th April 2020

• DfE Response to Education Appeal Panels - Joint statement from LLG & ADSO

  Publish date: 31/03/2020

  You may recently had sight of draft regulations being circulated relating to virtual meetings entitled The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority Meetings) (England) Regulations 2020. We are not yet certain whether they have been issued formally as a draft or just to a specific group of people for initial comment. We are trying to clarify that point. For those who have read them, you will have noted that there is no mention of school appeals. We were naturally concerned about this and immediately raised the omission with the LGA who raised it directly with the DfE. We have now received communications in which the DfE advises they are working on emergency regulations and guidance to establish flexible alternative arrangements including remote panels together with an extension of timescales currently prescribed. The DfE also advise it will retain the need for a formal clerk during the proceedings. When we have any further information we will continue to update you.

• Free Shoosmiths Webinar on Covid-19 & Local Government

  Publish date: 31/03/2020

  The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, 1 April 2020 at 14:10 and will cover issues impacting on those working within local authorities and will include a consideration of the following: How can planning applications be registered, validated and progressed in the shadow of CV? Can an innovative solution be found to hosting planning committees? How to deal with the practicalities of day to day life – for example how will planning conditions be discharged, how will legal agreements be completed? What can be done to allow the appeals system to function? Do Councils need to modify their Constitutions? How can environmental functions such as waste collection and enforcement of statutory nuisances be carried out?

• Good Practice Guidance Note - Planning Officers Society

  Publish date: 31/03/2020

  Just released by POS - *Good Practice Guidance Note - DM Decision Making and COVID-19*

• Virtual meeting * LLG Annual General Meeting 2020 * - 3rd April 2020

  Publish date: 30/03/2020

  LLG AGM 2020 to now be held virtually on 3 April 2020 at 12.16pm