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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...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Where next for high streets and city centres?
By Ann McGauran | 06 October 2020
The Towns Fund selection process was controversial, but high streets and city centres face a bigg...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Five ways to be ahead of the curve
By Sean Anstee | 23 September 2020
Ruth Morgan and Sean Anstee put forward five recommendations to consider when putting together pr...
CENTRE FOR CITIES
No sign of workers returning to city centres
By Andrew Carter | 14 September 2020
The latest data from Centre for Cities' High Streets Recovery Tracker shows no movement at all in...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Helping city centres thrive post-COVID
By Andrew Carter | 05 August 2020
Concern for our high streets has been exacerbated by the pandemic - but this time it is big citie...
FINANCE
We must provide Luton with a bright future
By Cllr Hazel Simmons | 26 July 2020
Luton BC has agreed a ‘drastic’ emergency budget of £22m savings, and will ‘continue to bang loud...
FINANCE
Let's not paper over the cracks
By Nathan Elvery | 14 July 2020
Nathan Elvery examines the impact of spending cuts on councils and communities over a decade and ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Struggling places will fall even further behind without targeted policies
By Andrew Carter | 13 May 2020
Every single city and town in the UK will need a localised plan that reflects their circumstances...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Without a place-focused economic response, pre-coronavirus inequalities will become even more entrenched
By Andrew Carter | 27 March 2020
In places that were often struggling prior to COVID-19 such as Barnsley or Stoke just 20% of peop...
ENVIRONMENT
Failure to act on tackling air pollution would be deadly
By Andrew Carter | 19 February 2020
With more than one in 19 deaths in UK cities and large towns caused by toxic air, the UK Governme...
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