2021

Great Big Green Week is a perfect opportunity for local authorities to promote their work around the climate change, sustainability and renewable energy agenda.

An update from the ‘Good’ School Food Stakeholder Working Group.

During his audience with delegates at the APSE Annual Seminar 2021, Professor Curtice considered attitudes to public services in a post-COVID world.

These awards recognise the very best in local government frontline services across the UK.

A new report, lead by APSE in partnership with the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Chief Cultural & Leisure Officers Association (CLOA), examines how we can ensure the survival of public sport and leisure services.

APSE and CIPFA's latest report considers the challenges and opportunities for local authority property and assets in supporting local economy recovery.

If your authority currently has responsibility for fully co-mingled processing costs, Ben Parsons, Senior Consultant at APSE Solutions, explains how should you prepare for them. 

Lancaster City Council are delighted to announce that work on a multi-million pound project that will eliminate onsite CO2 emissions generated by Salt Ayre Leisure Centre has now begun in a bid to become the first such facilities in the UK to be carbon neutral.

Energy storage and battery specialist AceOn – APSE Energy’s Approved Partner - has launched a new era of home power with the first installations of its Renewergy Virtual Power Plant.

The finalists of the APSE Overall Council of the Year in Service Delivery Award 2021 have now been announced. 

Waste collection/disposal remains one of the most environmentally damaging functions of local government. How can councils mitigate this whilst maintaining a high quality service? For Ben Parsons, Senior Consultant at APSE Solutions, Underground Refuse Systems (URS) are the obvious answer.

The final report of the APSE Local Government Commission (ALGC) 2030, set up to explore what the next decade could hold for a revitalised local government, has issued a drastic warning to UK Governments to ‘reset the system’ to avoid local councils failing the communities they serve.

A new report, by the UK’s largest public sector union UNISON, has called for councils to be placed at the heart of a new homes revolution to address the deepening UK housing crisis.

Offering commercial opportunities from beautiful beaches to well trodden trails, the Pop-Up project has generated over £150K additional income for the Council. Kay Roberts, Public Open Space Officer at Cornwall Council, sheds light on this highly innovative and impactful scheme.

Following an open tender process via the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation, Go Plant Fleet Services were awarded, and have recently delivered, four new Dennis Eagle Refuse Collection Vehicles into Hyndburn Borough Council.

The final report of the APSE Local Government Commission (ALGC) 2030, set up to explore what the next decade could hold for a revitalised local government, has called for a system reset and at its heart a new constitutional settlement for local councils. 

A new report published by APSE, researched and written by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), is calling for a national enabling strategy to place local government at the heart of a post-pandemic recovery, suggesting that its role in place making will be the core driver to a green recovery.

A bold new strategy to deliver zero carbon heating for Gateshead in just nine years was approved by the Council's cabinet on 22 June 2021.