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DEVOLUTION

Baroness Taylor: Reorganisation will boost Government's devolution confidence

By Dan Peters | 23 March 2026

Local government minister Baroness Taylor of Stevenage has told The MJ reorganisation will give o...

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 ‘genui...

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...

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frederica-diamanta

Corporate Director - Planning

£97,966 - £126,181

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Dorset Council

Director - South London Partnership

£99,084 - £116,847

South London is a place of real ambition and remarkable scale. Apply for this job

South London Partnership

Director of Transport Commissioning & Development

£131,940

It’s hard to overstate the scale of our transport ambitions. Apply for this job

Liverpool City Region

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