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FINANCE
Fiscal devolution would give mayors crucial levers over tax and spend
By Andrew Carter | 23 March 2026
Andrew Carter says that to guarantee cities’ autonomy and mark what the Chancellor calls a ‘genuine break with the past’, metro mayors will need to reduce their reliance on central grant over time....
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Company clusters: the key to success
By Vasant Chari | 20 March 2026
Backing high-growth potential businesses in the Black Country and elsewhere is vital for boosting...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Missions mirage
By Jonathan Werran | 18 March 2026
The absence of a genuine national growth plan and an accompanying plausible narrative is a block ...
PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
Places: a call for more coterminosity
By Dr Catherine Howe | 18 March 2026
Catherine Howe asks: What if, instead of tussles over public sector reform between places and Whi...
FINANCE
Chancellor to give local leaders control over national taxes
By Paul Marinko | 17 March 2026
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised to give ‘local leaders’ spending control of some national t...
HOUSING
Thousands of new affordable homes could result from the move to raise the HRA threshold
By Cllr Richard Wright | 17 March 2026
The change to the Housing Revenue Account threshold 'is the sort of specific measure that those w...
FINANCE
Britain's growth is constrained by having only one wealth-generating city
By Abdool Kara | 12 March 2026
Abdool Kara says: 'We need to do more to ensure that capital investment and value-adding workers ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The secret of Warrington and Barnsley's success
By Andrew Carter | 25 February 2026
Cities Outlook 2026 shows that Warrington and Barnsley achieved better-than-average growth in bot...
REGENERATION
Neighbourhood watch
By David Blackman | 20 February 2026
With the UK’s Shared Prosperity Fund expiring imminently, the launch of the Pride in Place progra...
REORGANISATION
LGR: putting planning back into the spotlight
By Catriona Riddell | 19 February 2026
We now have a government that puts planning at the heart of economic growth, but does reorganisat...
LOCAL ECONOMIES
Growth: Solution or problem?
By Ian Fytche | 19 February 2026
Ian Fytche argues that chasing economic growth for its own sake isn’t working. It’s time to choos...
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