Nottingham City Council's leader faces challenges

If David Mellen inherited a poisoned chalice when becoming Nottingham City Council 's leader, then the English language is inadequate to describe what he is passing on to his successor. Jon Collins had dominated the city's politics for 16 years when stepping down in 2019, as the warning lights began to flash on Robin Hood Energy's dashboard.

The failure of that company, and the later discovery of illegally spent housing money, certainly gave Councillor Mellen more than enough crisis management training in the early part of his administration. Yet those crises would have provided nowhere near enough preparation for the calamitous end of Councillor Mellen's time in office. There have been successes, like the reopening of Nottingham Castle, and progress being made towards Nottingham becoming the country's first carbon neutral city. When looking at what has gone wrong though, there is no wonder that Councillor Mellen is exiting stage lef

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