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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

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 –...

Creating true value

By Jonathan Werran | 07 December 2021

Local government must mark a decade of social value with purpose driven procurement, writes chief...

Ducking for apples

By Jonathan Werran | 02 November 2021

Jonathan Werran analyses the Spending Review’s announcements on the centrally-controlled funds di...

The 'sticky' stuff

By Jonathan Werran | 26 October 2021

Local government has a battle on its hand with ministers to convince it can make policy cohere at...

Lagging behind the retrofit challenge

By Jonathan Werran | 21 October 2021

We risk deepening a divide between rich and poor and different parts of the compass unless we loc...

How to build communities

By Jonathan Werran | 05 October 2021

We need a long-term approach to investing in housing and placemaking that puts the needs of commu...