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FINANCE
Predictions in an age of uncertainty
By Jonathan Carr-West | 18 January 2017
Last year served up a string of ballot box shocks across the globe. As 2017 begins, Dr Jonathan C...
PLANNING
The planning system is undermining local democracy
By Andrew Walker | 12 January 2017
Looking ahead to the imminent housing white paper, Andrew Walker argues the planning system is we...
WHITEHALL
Planning system 'favours developers' over communities
By Mark Conrad | 11 January 2017
Three-quarters of councillors believe the planning system is too weighted in favour of developers...
WHITEHALL
Report: housing targets 'impossible' for councils
By James Evison | 13 December 2016
A lack of planning resources means housing targets ‘will be impossible’ for almost 90% of local a...
FINANCE
Hammond urged to tackle budget black hole
By Thomas Bridge | 16 November 2016
Local government has united to demand financial clarity from next week’s Autumn Statement amid fe...
FINANCE
What will the Autumn Statement deliver?
16 November 2016
With the Autumn Statement one week away, leading local government figures explain their hopes, co...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Councils can help people 'take back control'
By Jamie Hailstone | 15 November 2016
Local government could help people ‘take back control’ in a post-Brexit and Trump world, a think-...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
A funny old world
By Jonathan Carr-West | 19 October 2016
Global upheaval and national uncertainty means local government needs to step in and instil a sen...
WHITEHALL
Whitehall's 'frustrating silence' raises devolution concerns
By Tom Bridge | 27 September 2016
Senior local government figures have blasted Whitehall’s ‘frustrating silence’ over devolution as...
FINANCE
Mrs May's new agenda
By Jonathan Carr-West | 14 September 2016
The momentum behind the local government agenda may be slowing thanks to an Osborne-shaped hole i...
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