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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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