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Missions mirage
ECONOMIC GROWTH

Missions mirage

By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2026

The absence of a genuine national growth plan and an accompanying plausible narrative is a block on any strong prospect of local economic revival, argues Jonathan Werran.

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM

Places: a call for more coterminosity

By Dr Catherine Howe | 18 March 2026

Catherine Howe asks: What if, instead of tussles over public sector reform between places and Whi...

FINANCE

Chancellor to give local leaders control over national taxes

By Paul Marinko | 17 March 2026

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised to give ‘local leaders’ spending control of some national t...

HOUSING

Thousands of new affordable homes could result from the move to raise the HRA threshold

By Cllr Richard Wright | 17 March 2026

The change to the Housing Revenue Account threshold 'is the sort of specific measure that those w...

FINANCE

Britain's growth is constrained by having only one wealth-generating city

By Abdool Kara | 12 March 2026

Abdool Kara says: 'We need to do more to ensure that capital investment and value-adding workers ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The secret of Warrington and Barnsley's success

By Andrew Carter | 25 February 2026

Cities Outlook 2026 shows that Warrington and Barnsley achieved better-than-average growth in bot...

REGENERATION

Neighbourhood watch

By David Blackman | 20 February 2026

With the UK’s Shared Prosperity Fund expiring imminently, the launch of the Pride in Place progra...

REORGANISATION

LGR: putting planning back into the spotlight

By Catriona Riddell | 19 February 2026

We now have a government that puts planning at the heart of economic growth, but does reorganisat...

LOCAL ECONOMIES

Growth: Solution or problem?

By Ian Fytche | 19 February 2026

Ian Fytche argues that chasing economic growth for its own sake isn’t working. It’s time to choos...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Treasury control over transport is stalling regional growth, IPPR warns

By William Eichler | 18 February 2026

Centralised Treasury control over transport spending is constraining regional growth, according t...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Core Cities UK: Where investors share our values, we are keen to partner over the long term

By Cllr James Lewis | 18 February 2026

Cllr James Lewis says the key message from Core Cities UK to private sector colleagues at a mini ...

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Built on an industrial heritage and the birthplace of the worldwide cooperative movement Apply for this job

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