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CLIMATE CHANGE

Energy strategy to bring about planning overhaul

By Martin Ford | 07 April 2022

The Government is to reform planning regulations in the hope of boosting the nation’s energy supply.

ENERGY

Reform would help more councils achieve their ambitious targets and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels

By Kathy O’Leary | 06 April 2022

The 2021 revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework missed the opportunity to remove exi...

HOUSING

Think big, act local, start now

By Paul O’Brien | 29 March 2022

Communities will look to their local authority for further support with the cost of living crisis...

POVERTY

Future Forum North: local government still lacks a plan for delivering sustainability

By Ann McGauran | 25 March 2022

Local government still lacks both a plan for delivering sustainability and a way of measuring the...

FINANCE

Southern comfort

By Jonathan Werran | 22 March 2022

Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran outlines a new report setting a possible future course fo...

FINANCE

Estate retrofit is not too big a challenge for the public sector

16 March 2022

Daniel Easthope looks at how the public sector can best retrofit its estates to minimise emission...

POVERTY

Will the current crises put paid to levelling up?

By Heather Jameson | 15 March 2022

Local government is used to complexity, but what does the current crop of crises do for the domes...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Blazing the path to net zero

By Ben Simcock | 15 March 2022

Ben Simcock discusses how government-funded decarbonisation schemes are trailblazing change.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Councils need more 'funding and powers' to tackle climate change

By William Eichler | 10 March 2022

Progress needs to be accelerated in every local area if the UK’s climate and nature targets are t...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unlocking the Humber's growth potential

By Krishanthi Carfrae | 08 March 2022

Krishanthi Carfrae explains how the public and private sectors are working together in the Humber...

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