Reorganisation at Ealing Council resulted in Housing, Social Services, and Education coming together under one directorate. It is not unusual for Housing and Social Services to be under one umbrella, but the inclusion of Education is much less common. The Executive Director of the new merged structure will be David Archibald.
East Renfrewshire Council became the second Scottish local authority to apply for Pressurised Area Status, which allows councils to suspend the Right to Buy (RTB). The Scottish Executive is to class four areas of the district as pressurised, which will remove the RTB from all tenants in those districts who signed tenancy agreements with the Council after September 2002.
Westminster Council was reported to be taking estate surveillance a step further by introducing both cameras and listening technology on its Churchill Estate and Lisson Grove Estate. Sound equipment will monitor continuously, and unusually high levels of noise will trigger camera recording.