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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

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...

This year's model

By Jonathan Werran | 17 February 2020

As the tenth Conservative housing minister in a decade assumes the position, Localis chief execut...

The price to pay

By Jonathan Werran | 28 January 2020

If the Johnson Government values the institutions of mayoral governance as agents of levelling up...

Ringing the changes

By Jonathan Werran | 16 December 2019

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran on how the Johnson government might seek to tackle the ch...

It's time to clean up our act

By Jonathan Werran | 25 October 2019

With more than 230 local climate emergencies declared nationwide, it’s time for our local and com...

It's a fiscal drag

By Jonathan Werran | 15 October 2019

If we are ever going to unlock the benefits and freedoms that fiscal devolution could engender in...