Slough

06/26 Slough looks at winding down struggling housing company

06/26 Slough sets out plan to deliver £79m in asset disposals

04/26 ‘We are not a basket case’, says outgoing Slough leader

03/26 External review at Slough commissioned by government amid financial pressures

02/26 More councils see exceptional financial support requests granted for 2026/27

11/25 Thames Valley leaders seek devolution deal

11/25 Slough commissioners urge council to up pace of mitigation efforts

10/25 Slough needs targeted use of EFS but has ‘grip’ on fiscal position

09/25 Hillingdon appoints Steven Muldoon to s151 position

08/25 Local authority debt in the spotlight as £2.9bn of assets sold in two years

07/25 Warrington’s ‘BBB+’ credit rating affirmed by S&P

07/25 Latest MHCLG temporary accommodation data paints bleak picture

07/25 Slough’s budget gap worsens amid government scrutiny

07/25 Intervention update: envoys sent to Warrington; Slough needs ‘future vision’

07/25 Phone a friend: why treasury advisors are a lifeline, not a luxury

07/25 Treasury needs ‘change of mindset’ to support council housebuilding

05/25 Joseph Holmes becomes permanent chief executive

04/25 Thurrock finance commissioner appointed

03/25 Audit crisis: over 60 councils miss deadline as backlog persists

01/25 Exceptional financial support: where does it end?

12/24 Housing151 conference returns to London in March with much to discuss for local authorities

11/24 Government intervention at Slough to continue for two more years

11/24 Birmingham City Council completes £73m bond buyback

11/24 Slough downgrades asset disposal forecasts

11/24 Joseph Holmes becomes interim chief executive at West Berkshire

10/24 ‘If we don’t transform, we won’t exist’: innovating in a financial crisis

10/24 Government extends intervention at Slough while Birmingham faces severe challenges

09/24 Slough considers fate of housing company amid financial losses

07/24 Institutional investors can solve the UK’s key worker renting crisis

06/24 Slough needs ‘immediate’ action to address forecast overspend as asset sales fall well short

03/24 Housing151 in review: addressing the UK’s housing crisis

02/24 Government approves capitalisation directions at 19 councils

02/24 Tony McArdle and Margaret Lee appointed as Nottingham commissioners

02/24 Slough Council commissioners raise prospect of extended intervention

02/24 95% of authorities to implement maximum council tax

02/24 Steven Mair appointed as Bradford’s director of finance

01/24 Somerset seeks to increase council tax to 10% to bridge £100m overspend

12/23 2023 in review: the best stories in local government finance

12/23 Provisional local government settlement offers 6.5% funding increase but “fails to ease” long-term crisis

12/23 Birmingham looks to £2.4bn property portfolio to bridge £300m budget gap

11/23 Max Caller: an s114 is a sign of failure on behalf of the officers, the members or both

10/23 Councils’ reserves are reducing at an ‘unsustainable’ rate

10/23 Leigh Whitehouse interview: councils have ‘got the power to get through’ financial difficulty

09/23 LATIF and Finance Directors’ Summit in review: finding solutions to a sea of challenges

09/23 Government intervention at Birmingham will ‘protect the interests of residents and provide assurance to the sector’

09/23 Rowley welcomes progress at Slough but asks for quickening pace of change

09/23 Chris Buss: is the wolf really at the door now?

08/23 Less than a month to go to LATIF/FDs’ Summit

08/23 Michael Hudson interview: ‘my focus is on the customer journey, experience and outcome’

07/23 Lee Rowley to speak at Room151’s LATIF/FDs’ Summit

07/23 Arlingclose implicates “too late and too weak” regulators in slew of section 114 notices

07/23 The recent spate of s114 warnings is ‘deeply troubling’ for local government

07/23 OBR: £96bn local authority borrowing presents ‘risk’ to public finances

07/23 Slough cabinet update report highlights concerns about long-term financial sustainability

07/23 Conrad Hall: who broke my local council?

07/23 LATIF/FDs’ Summit to welcome over 250 delegates and stellar line-up of speakers

07/23 From the LGA conference room: Michael Gove shapes Oflog’s purpose

06/23 PAC: audit delays impeding accountability for £100bn of council spending

06/23 Published 22/23 draft accounts show ‘worrying’ decrease in councils’ reserves

06/23 Adele Taylor interview: ‘I’m a fixer who relishes a challenge and wants to inspire others’

06/23 Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead appoints Elizabeth Griffiths as s151

05/23 Woking Council to pause rollout of regeneration project due to high debt

05/23 Slough gets pair of new commissioners as Gavin Jones steps up to lead role

03/23 Housing151: end of the ‘golden age’ for the housing company

03/23 Slough Borough Council halves £406m temporary borrowing debt

03/23 Govt ‘minded’ to give Thurrock, Slough and Croydon cash injection of nearly £900m

02/23 ‘Unprecedented’ magnitude of errors identified in Slough’s accounts

02/23 Council failure and the ‘West Didsbury Question’

02/23 Districts ‘disappointed’ at final finance settlement

02/23 Slough confirms appointment of new section 151 officer

02/23 CIPFA appointed as reviewer for councils at ‘financial risk’

11/22 Slough begins asset sales to help reduce debt

09/22 Further intervention in Slough confirmed

07/22 Government proposing further intervention in Slough Borough Council

06/22 Slough welcomes commitment that Office for Local Government ‘will not be a burden’

06/22 Slough Council approves plans to restructure finance department

05/22 Slough Borough Council told to sell £600m of assets

03/22 MRP could inflict ‘massive harm’, LATIF North delegates told

03/22 Slough’s ‘reckless’ chief executive sacked for ‘gross misconduct’

03/22 Slough confirms ‘precarious’ financial position ahead of budget meeting

02/22 Northumberland calls in Max Caller to lead governance review

02/22 The s151: a prefect in a post-pandemic world

11/21 Room151’s 10th Anniversary: A decade has seen systemic change to funding while core values are more important than ever

11/19 Slough JV appoints Muse for final phase of regeneration

10/19 Slough to raise revenue from £8m cinema investment

05/19 Troubled Northamptonshire makes ‘unprecedented’ in-year turnaround

03/19 Brentwood joins £1bn JV with Morgan Sindall

03/19 A local income tax could empower councils – but there’s no free lunch?

08/18 Spelthorne nears £1bn in borrowing for property acquisitions

08/18 Spelthorne and North Somerset reveal appetite for commercial property remains strong

04/18 Herts agrees JV with Morgan Sindall to develop 500 homes

02/18 Local asset backed vehicles: controversial but “one of the few options” to tackle the housing crisis