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ELECTIONS
Plea to delay online postal vote applications
By Martin Ford | 09 October 2023
Launching online applications for postal and proxy votes later this month should be ‘urgently rec...
INFRASTRUCTURE
Two answers to levelling up – but what's the question?
By Heather Jameson | 04 October 2023
Heather Jameson says set aside the anti-city, anti-local government rhetoric - Rishi Sunak's plan...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growth battlelines
By Heather Jameson | 03 October 2023
Rishi Sunak has launched a towns plan, while a new report says bringing UK cities up to the produ...
HEALTH
Addressing the mess
By Matthew Taylor | 03 October 2023
Key aspects of our systems of governance are broken, says Matthew Taylor, and radical reform is n...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A working ecosystem needs a local base
By Professor Graeme Atherton | 03 October 2023
Local authorities are the natural fulcrum for a dynamic, flexible and responsive skills ecosystem...
HEALTH
Party conferences are a golden opportunity for districts
By Cllr Sam Chapman-Allen | 03 October 2023
In party conference season the hope is that collectively councillors can influence their party’s ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Growth: the big issue
By Ben Lucas | 03 October 2023
As we enter election season a national growth plan is needed now, delivered with and by places, s...
FINANCE
Financial sustainability is never about clever financial mechanisms
By Tracie Langley | 03 October 2023
Instead of waiting until it’s too late, Cornwall Council has stood up the senior officer Financia...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY
Wales to automatically register voters
By Ellie Ames | 03 October 2023
The Welsh Government is to establish automatic voter registration for local government and Senedd...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Throw a lifeline – business rates reform and high streets renewal
By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2023
A fringe panel event in Liverpool next week will focus thinking on what system of business taxati...
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