Campaigners want all Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty to run their own affairs by setting up full Management Boards. The proposal comes from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England which today issues a call for the future of beautiful landscapes to be at the heart of Government thinking.

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Councils should have more powers to create areas in which cyclists are given priority over cars, according to a national inquiry. The investigation, led by the think-tank the Local Government Information Unit, has concluded that transport regulations need to be reviewed.

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Chris Wormald, Director General of Local Government and Regeneration at DCLG sets out his views on transformation and efficiency in the interview on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation.

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