PLANNING

We need a renaissance in strategic planning

By Joanna Killian | 17 November 2020

Joanna Killian says the need to deliver future-focused, robust infrastructure to support housing ...

PLANNING

HOUSING: Will the planning shake-up help to level up?

By Colin Brown | 11 November 2020

Colin Brown asks if the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system will help or hinder ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Sunak's cash pledge to head off revolt

By Michael Burton | 10 November 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged extra cash in a bid to head off a revolt by a new northern gro...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Three pathways to reducing regional disparities

By Professor Sir Tim Besley CBE | 06 November 2020

Better defining ‘levelling up’ is a crucial step to achieving it, writes Professor Sir Tim Besley...

PLANNING

Cities have 'gone backwards towards a centralising tendency'

By Ann McGauran | 07 October 2020

Cities have ‘gone backwards’ towards a centralising tendency in response to COVID-19 and in rela...

WHITEHALL

Javid calls for 'fresh look at local government'

By Michael Burton | 05 October 2020

Former communities secretary Sajid Javid has called for a ‘fresh look at local government’.

PLANNING

Any further loosening of planning laws would be a disaster for towns and cities

By Cllr Faisal Rana | 28 September 2020

Cllr Faisal Rana of Rochdale MBC argues that the government's planning White Paper will have a de...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Councils enlist MPs' help over lorry parks

By Martin Ford | 28 September 2020

Local authorities have called on MPs to help lobby the Government over the creation of lorry park...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

We can't wait any longer for major reform of local government

By Simon Jeffrey | 21 September 2020

The current patchwork of local government needs to change if we are to have any hope of levelling...

LEGAL

Beware the 'construction cartels'

By Laurence Pritchard | 05 August 2020

Laurence Pritchard says the pressure to keep infrastructure projects moving when competition for ...

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