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Across local government, the rise of council-owned companies — from housing developers to shared-service providers — has been a feature of the past decade. They promise agility, income generation and a degree of commercial freedom, but they also introduce layers of fiscal and regulatory complexity that many councils underestimate.  While the H&DN focuses on housing and development companies, tax and governance questions are common across the wider family of local authority tr

Few topics in local government spark as much debate as council-owned companies*. Hailed as a bold solution to the UK’s housing crisis...

A week on from the #SpendingReview, the headlines have settled in and the initial surge of enthusiasm for a £39bn, decade-long investment...