Alex Parmley

  • Local government in the Land of the Long White Cloud

    15 February 2023

    Alex Parmley offers a leadership perspective from a district council in New Zealand, where local government is a focus of the country’s considerable programme of reform and Covid has exposed divides in communities.

  • Making it local – real reform over reorganisation

    06 October 2020

    By putting reform ahead of re-organisation in Somerset, the districts have developed a case for change that’s distinct to place-based context and local priorities, say Georgina Cox and Alex Parmley