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REGENERATION

The MJ Regeneration supplement December 2024

Calls to relax Treasury rules to unleash development, plus much more.

© Alex Segre / Shutterstock.com

© Alex Segre / Shutterstock.com

Calls to relax Treasury rules to unleash development, plus much more.

REGENERATION

OBR warns pressures on council finances remain

By Sir Stephen Houghton | 13 March 2026

While the Local Government Finance Settlement represents a welcome step towards fixing local authority finances, the absence of long-term financial stability...

REGENERATION

Future Forum: Councils urged to embrace Total Place

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Councils should seize the opportunity presented by ministers’ renewed interest in Total Place, according one of its pioneers.

REGENERATION

Future Forum: Reorganisation threat to transformation

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Fears that ambitions to include transformation alongside local government reorganisation may not be realised have been voiced at The MJ’s Future Forum.

REGENERATION

Britain's growth is constrained by having only one wealth-generating city

By Abdool Kara | 12 March 2026

Abdool Kara says: 'We need to do more to ensure that capital investment and value-adding workers are attracted elsewhere than the proverbial Big Smoke.'