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LOCAL DEMOCRACY
The pros and cons of messy devo
By Vivien Lowndes | 15 August 2023
Unfinished devolution may feel like a failure to deliver, but can we think differently, ask Cathe...
PLANNING
Keep it communal
By Cllr Barry Wood | 15 August 2023
Former levelling up secretary Greg Clark is wrong to advocate shifting planning from district to ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Stop micro-managing local issues from the centre
By Heather Jameson | 01 August 2023
The Prime Minister has ordered a review of low traffic neighbourhoods, yet as local government mi...
WHITEHALL
Sector to step up anti-mayor lobbying
By Dan Peters | 01 August 2023
The sector is to step up its lobbying for the Government to use its King’s Speech to end its fixa...
HEALTH
A rallying cry for subsidiarity
By Tim Knox | 31 July 2023
The new cross-party Effective Governance Forum’s belief is that power should be devolved to the ‘...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Government must set out its case on remote meetings
By Ian Miller | 24 July 2023
Even if the answer is a reasoned ‘no’, local government deserves the courtesy of being told the G...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Seven in 10 support more control over local services
By William Eichler | 17 July 2023
Nearly 70% of people would like their community to have more control over how local services are ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Ministerial meddling and the four-day working week
By Professor Jonathan Davies | 11 July 2023
For elite politicians, rational, democratic and forward-looking experiments such as the four-day ...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
An attack on the freedom of councils as corporate bodies
By Ian Miller | 11 July 2023
If passed as drafted the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill would mean a ...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Optimistic nihilism
By Jonathan Carr-West | 04 July 2023
It feels like local government is close to breaking point, but it doesn’t have to be this way, sa...
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