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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Let's make sure Transforming Public Procurement delivers beyond SW1

By Jonathan Werran | 20 April 2021

We shouldn’t allow Greensill to distract us from asking what needs to change centrally to release...

At the right level

By Jonathan Werran | 17 March 2021

As the heart of the UK's knowledge and biotech economies, Oxford urgently needs urban leadership ...

Experienced drivers wanted

By Jonathan Werran | 10 February 2021

Let our localities choose which local delivery vehicles should drive growth and recovery from gov...

SPENDING REVIEW: Live to fight another year

By Jonathan Werran | 25 November 2020

Local government has probably got just about enough from the chancellor to keep the show on the r...

Creating Powerful Communities

By Jonathan Werran | 17 November 2020

The Recovery and Devolution White Paper must seize on the promise of double devolution to build e...

HOUSING: You get what you give

By Jonathan Werran | 11 November 2020

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran asks what the inability to deliver a multi-year finance s...

Give us the fiscal tools to finish the recovery job

By Jonathan Werran | 16 July 2020

Fiscal devo should work in England to boost growth, placemaking and social wellbeing as it does i...

Protecting our social infrastructure

By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2020

The needs of community infrastructure are as deserving of funding as the multi-billions being all...

Brighten all corners

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2020

Better, more consistent and accountable use of the Social Value Act could give communities the be...

Leaving nothing to chance

By Jonathan Werran | 11 March 2020

The ‘levelling-up’ Budget is era-defining and ambitious in scope – but we will have to wait until...