The Food Standards Agency is supposed to know whether councils are enforcing food law. Its own September report admits the national picture is currently too unreliable for it to say confidently. The Food Standards...
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The watchdog created to prevent another building-safety catastrophe has made some dangerous blocks wait months for permission to become safer. In London, the delay has approached an entire year. Seven months is now...
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Wrong Bill? You Complain. Nothing Happens. Then Come The Bailiffs
Think your council-tax bill is wrong? Complain, then watch your right to appeal vanish Councils can leave residents trapped in complaints while tribunal deadlines expire. Then come court costs, bailiffs and even...
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No Planning Permission: Build It Anyway?
Across England, institutional delay can leave unlawful development standing until the authority legally cannot touch it. This is not a mischievous hypothetical. On 17 February 2026, England’s Local Government and Social...
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