João is a Local Democracy Reporter covering Suffolk's district and borough councils, as well as Suffolk County Council.
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Suffolk County Council has approved its plan to create a single unitary authority for the county, despite a heated debate that exposed deep divisions over the future of local democracy in Suffolk.
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Suffolk County Council is grappling with a £13.3 million budget overspend, with local government reform blamed for holding back £2.5 million of planned savings, council leaders revealed following their first quarter review this week.
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Ipswich Borough Council is to consider waiving a quarter-million-pound developer contribution after financial assessments showed previously approved plans to convert the former Gym & Trim building into flats would fall below the Government's profitability threshold.
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Suffolk council leaders are backing their financial projections for council mergers as the Government faces criticism for relying on third-party analysis that originally promised £2.9bn in savings, but now suggests reorganisation could cost more money.
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Ipswich MP Jack Abbott has urged bold action on council reform, warning that maintaining the status quo "isn't working for anyone," as Suffolk MPs line up behind competing visions for the county's future.
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Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer says "countless conversations" with residents about immigration concerns led him to support a controversial motion calling for mass deportation of people living in the UK illegally, despite disputed figures about the scale of the issue.
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Suffolk's total council debt has reached £1.1 billion, with three authorities seeing increases in the past year whilst the remaining councils reduced their borrowing levels.
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Ipswich Borough Council has approved plans to convert offices in Grimwade Street into nine homes, returning the Grade II listed building to residential use after seven decades.
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Suffolk's Police and Crime Commissioner has warned that devolution plans lack crucial detail, less than a year before voters choose their first regional mayor.
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Ipswich Borough Council voted nine to one on Tuesday, 5 August, to hire specialists for a new regeneration scheme covering three prominent waterfront sites that have sat undeveloped for years, despite concerns that £3.8m has already been spent on them to date.