Earlier this year, the Department for Communities and Local Government upheld a local council rejection of the studio's Project Pinewood scheme.
Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, who runs Conservative-held Kent County Council and also chairs the bipartisan Local Government Association, says his council has to provide the government with information on over a thousand performance indicators.
In future, councils may have to work within a fixed budget, set by the Department for Communities and Local Government, for council tax benefit.
"Until local government gets the message, local council taxpayers will continue to be hit by civil monetary penalties for really basic stupid errors".
He could be suspended from the council for six months after the local government ombudsman found he had breached the council's code of conduct.
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Local government consultant and former Bridgend council leader Jeff Jones told BBC Radio Wales he backed fewer councils.
The secretary of state for communities and local government gave the Thanet District Council the go-ahead to purchase the site on Friday.
Steve Thomas, chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association, warned against tying council hands.
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Local government minister Brandon Lewis said the council had not yet received its grant for next year from the government.
The Department for Communities and Local Government says more people currently receive Council Tax Benefit in England than any other means-tested benefit or tax credit.
Remember one thing - regardless of the political changes in the county council elections - local government still faces a 30% cut in its spending power.
Graham Lane, education chairman of the Local Government Association and leader of Newham council in east London, said some boroughs faced a multi-million pound budget shortfall in spite of the "cushioning" grant.
Nick Bourne (Leader of the Welsh Conservatives) asked about the impact of his policies on local government expenditure and accused central government of presiding over a fall in local authority spending, but an increase in council tax.
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Camden Council is making its plans with a view to using the Local Government Finance Bill, which will give councils discretion to increase council tax on long-term empty dwellings.
The theatre also receives financial support from two other local councils and the government-funded Arts Council.
Free schools, which anyone can apply to set up, are funded directly by central government and are free from local council control.
Sir Merrick Cockell, head of Kensington and Chelsea council and of the Local Government Association, thinks the presence of a charismatic city mayor helps, too.
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Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, leader of the Liberal Democrats in local government, welcomed the decision to protect council budgets in the next year but said Lib Dem councillors would continue to lobby against the extra 2% cut.
And in another region of Georgia 24-year-old Rezi Merebashvili quit his local government job in disgust, after the council wanted to name a street after Stalin and colleagues drank toasts to the dictator during a work function.
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Indeed we have been ourselves, you know I set up the review, the balance review of how much the government should be paying in local council tax contribution because it's made up of council tax by the local authorities and national.
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The government says any new structure would operate outside the national joint council framework which governs pay and conditions for local government employees.
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Local Government Minister Carl Sargeant has already indicated that the Welsh government will withdraw from the council in 2013.
"However, I believe there is little public appetite for introducing a barrage of new local taxes, especially given the fact that council tax doubled under the last administration, " said Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis.
The shadow local government minister attacked the government for not giving Welsh local authorities the financing to allow them to maintain council tax levels as is being done by all Scottish councils and 90% of those in England.
Retail Rocks is being funded by the Scottish government, the city council and local businesses.
The council ordered a report by local government expert Jenni Richards QC into complaints against Mr Murphy.
The Welfare Association also gives direct support to Israeli Arab municipal governments including Nazareth's municipal government and Kfar Kanna's local council.
Council leader David Hodge said local government could no longer rely on Whitehall for funding and had to find other ways of providing services.
The Welsh Assembly Government has told all Welsh local authorities that council housing must be brought up to the Welsh Housing Quality Standard by 2012.
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Chris Leslie, the former Labour MP who heads the New Local Government Network (NLGN), says "council tax is a real burden and it's becoming really unfair and outdated".
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