James Hawkins

  • New frontiers for shared services

    07 March 2018

    When four authorities who successfully shared services for an number of years set up a jointly-owned company, the aim was to radically transfom services to better reflect local objectives, as James Hawkins and Amardeep Gill explain

  • Overcoming obstacles

    13 October 2014

    Up to 10,000 local authority self-build schemes are envisaged under the new Right to Build programme. James Hawkins outlines how Cherwell DC overcame planning and legal obstacles to get the trailblazing Graven Hill project off the ground.