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Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien is chief executive of APSE

Articles by Paul O'Brien

BUSINESS

Local solutions are best

By Paul O'Brien | 24 January 2018

Paul O’Brien reflects on the collapse of Carillion and urges local government to plan for the lon...

LEISURE

Parks and recreation: why we need to invest

By Paul O’ Brien | 05 December 2017

Public spaces and parks are vital to the prevention agenda. Surely that's worth investing in, wri...

DEVOLUTION

Hidden in plain sight: the frontline answer to devolution woes

By Victoria Bettany | 15 September 2017

Paul O’Brien and Victoria Bettany discuss the findings of their new report, which explores the po...

FINANCE

Councils are plugging the gap

By Paul O'Brien | 12 July 2017

There are some who criticise local government for being bureaucratic and lacking in creativity. I...

HOUSING

Whoever is elected must offer sensible housing policies

By Paul O'Brien | 24 May 2017

With the General Election debate starting to heat up, it’s pleasing to see the housing crisis is ...

FINANCE

Door knocking on neighbourhoods

By Dr Peter Kenway | 28 April 2017

The cuts meted out to neighbourhood services are shortsighted, damaging to communities, and gross...

FINANCE

Malnourished things grow very slowly

By Paul O'Brien | 05 April 2017

Paul O'Brien says we must not starve out places of the things that make them desirable and habita...

WHITEHALL

Learning the lessons of history on housing

By Paul O'Brien | 14 February 2017

By imposing Right to Buy restrictions on local authority housing companies, John O'Brien argues t...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

You are the industrial strategy drivers

By Paul O'Brien | 13 December 2016

Local government should be critical to a localised industrial strategy agenda in the midst of an ...

FINANCE

The right response to commercialism

By Paul O'Brien | 26 October 2016

Councils are taking very different approaches to commercialism but success can be ensured with on...

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