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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Councils need a net zero strategy

By Jonathan Werran | 17 August 2022

The High Court has ruled the Government’s own net zero strategy is in breach of the Climate Chang...

Fixing Government's blind spot

By Jonathan Werran | 11 July 2022

As the Conservative leadership hopefuls jostle for the top job, Jonathan Werran asks what a chang...

Getting on the grid

By Jonathan Werran | 05 July 2022

Amid the cost of living crisis and the move towards net zero, Jonathan Werran calls on the Govern...

Innovation's ingredient

By Jonathan Werran | 14 June 2022

Jonathan Werran says we should look ahead to what the Autumn Statement will offer to incentivise ...

Appetite for construction?

By Jonathan Werran | 09 May 2022

The Levelling Up department’s wish to see a council housebuilding revolution will require an incr...

Consistent craving

By Jonathan Werran | 05 April 2022

Ministerial decisions to upend long-term policy commitments are the enemy of local economic plann...

Southern comfort

By Jonathan Werran | 22 March 2022

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran outlines a new report setting a possible future course fo...

South East needs 'unified' approach to create a devolution framework

By Jonathan Werran | 22 March 2022

Government must rethink the assumption that directing investment away from an ‘overheated’ South ...

Net zero culture war

By Jonathan Werran | 02 March 2022

A localist and levelling up aligned approach to decarbonisation is all that stands between us and...

Throwing off the manacles

By Jonathan Werran | 26 January 2022

Jonathan Werran asks what would an unmasked sense of truly local empowerment look and feel like –...