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In the run up to this week’s Mais lecture, it looked like more of the same. Another keynote fiscal speech with a pledge to boost economic growth, another promise to sort out the planning system to ...

FUTURE FORUM

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, ac...

FINANCE

Many district councils will see a cash cut

By James Hood | 16 February 2026

On average district councils face real terms funding reductions at a time of rising demand, and ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Moving from place-based budget pilots to mainstream practice

By Dr Simon Kaye | 16 December 2025

The Treasury must back real place-based budgets – not just another Red Book annex, warns Dr Simon...

FINANCE

A taxing dilemma

By Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025

Councils calling for council tax reform should be careful what they wish for, writes Paul Marinko

INVESTMENT

Green Book Review: Evolution not revolution for local investment

By Simon Dancer | 19 June 2025

Treasury's latest review of the Green Book holds the line on orthodoxy but offers cautious encour...

REORGANISATION

Three years left to live?

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2025

Reorganisation proposals for Surrey have sparked divisions, even between councils with the same p...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Rewriting the Green Book

By Martin Ford | 07 April 2025

With a Government review of the Treasury’s investment Green Book under way, Martin Ford looks at ...

FINANCE

Whole government response required to secure councils' finances

By Ann McGauran | 28 February 2025

Making councils financially sustainable requires a whole government response led by the Ministry ...

REGENERATION

Corridor of Uncertainty

By David Blackman | 19 February 2025

Confirmed during the chancellor’s recent announcement, the latest revival of the Oxford to Cambri...

REORGANISATION

A magic population number for local government is a fallacy

By Colin Copus | 10 February 2025

The Government is progressing with a centralisation agenda dividing local government into deliver...

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