Government acts to block councils from ‘selling off the family silver’ ahead of LGR

The government has warned against authorities spending their reserves, purchasing significant assets or selling them off in the run-up to local government reorganisation (LGR), implementing new directions to stop “raids of the family silver”.

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Correspondence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) stressed that councils submitting proposals for unitary status must ensure they “do not

Government acts to block councils from ‘selling off the family silver’ ahead of LGR

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