REGENERATION

Regeneration: Transforming the planning landscape

19 September 2024

To reach its targets, the new Government will need to tackle infrastructure as well as planning, ...

GOVERNMENT

Unfinished business

By Michael Burton | 14 August 2024

Total Place, the 30-year concept of merging public sector funding pots, was terminated after a ye...

SOCIAL HOUSING

Labour scraps Conservatives' mandatory local connection test plans

By Paul Marinko | 13 August 2024

The Government has u-turned on the previous Conservative administration’s plans to force councils...

POLICY

Local government's big mission

By Nick Kimber | 07 August 2024

The Labour Government’s mission-based approach to governing is starting to emerge. Nick Kimber lo...

GOVERNMENT

The district devolution D:Ream

By Kathy O'Leary | 01 August 2024

New governments always come with an air of optimism, says Kathy O'Leary. But there needs to be a ...

ETHICS

We have put up with poor standards for too long

22 July 2024

The new Government approach strikes a different tone, says Graeme McDonald.

MAYORS

Mayors call for a 'decade of devolution'

By Mark Conrad | 10 July 2024

DEVOLUTION

Rayner prepares mayors for major devolution

By William Eichler | 09 July 2024

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to tell regional mayors that Labour is ready to ‘trans...

GOVERNMENT

Department ditches 'levelling up' moniker

By Mark Conrad | 08 July 2024

Prime minister Keir Starmer has ditched Whitehall’s 'levelling up' department and re-named it wit...