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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...
POLICY AND POLITICS
Treasury control over transport is stalling regional growth, IPPR warns
By William Eichler | 18 February 2026
Centralised Treasury control over transport spending is constraining regional growth, according t...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Core Cities UK: Where investors share our values, we are keen to partner over the long term
By Cllr James Lewis | 18 February 2026
Cllr James Lewis says the key message from Core Cities UK to private sector colleagues at a mini ...
DEVOLUTION
The visitor levy needs to be the start of a more grown-up approach to growth
By Simon Kaye | 17 February 2026
The visitor levy should be the start of a new relationship between local and central government, ...
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