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COHESION
Riding out the perfect storm
By Niall Bolger | 11 September 2025
Niall Bolger says communities are in crisis and leaders must respond with compassion, presence and values-led action to rebuild trust, counter hate and protect the most vulnerable,
REGENERATION
Rethinking long-term community investment
By Nick Kemp | 10 September 2025
As the UK Shared Prosperity Fund ends and the Growth Mission Fund and trailblazer neighbourhoods ...
DEVOLUTION
Local growth plans must show benefit to communities
By Joe Lepper | 08 September 2025
Experts have urged strategic authorities (SA) to ensure their blueprints for local growth ‘do mor...
COHESION
Flagging up a problem
By Kathy O'Leary | 05 September 2025
Kathy O' Leary says that while the legal guidance stresses that flags are a very British way of e...
GOVERNANCE
Filling the governance gap
By Mark Smith | 03 September 2025
As reorganisation unfolds, Mark Smith argues that supporting and building on town and parish coun...
PLACE-MAKING
Engage, design, deliver: how collaboration can boost a community's prospects
By Ross Aitchison | 02 September 2025
With a collectively minded approach to engagement and design, aspirational place policies can del...
COMMUNITIES
A museum shouldn't be the final resting place for community dreams
By Hannah Sloggett | 02 September 2025
The brilliant ideas on display in the Museum of Broken Dreams are a reminder of what could be los...
FINANCE
The £8bn opportunity sitting in council bank accounts
By Mark Shearer | 01 September 2025
Mark Shearer says having billions of pounds in unspent Section 106 and Community Infrastructure L...
LEGAL
Staying sensible when legal issues get polarised
By Aneeka Muneer | 28 August 2025
Aneeka Muneer considers the role of local government lawyers in balancing law, politics, place an...
PLANNING
'Quiet majority' favour local development
By Martin Ford | 21 August 2025
Councils have been urged to consult more widely on planning applications after newly-published re...
IMMIGRATION
More than £300m Ukrainian refugee funding unspent
By William Eichler | 19 August 2025
More than £300m given to English councils to help house Ukrainian refugees still sits in council ...
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