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Looking beyond growth
ECONOMIC GROWTH

Looking beyond growth

By Sarah Longlands | 07 August 2025

In an era of no growth, we need to love the economy we have, writes Sarah Longlands.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Climate action is a social movement

By Cllr Nick Ireland | 30 July 2025

Climate action is seen by Dorset Council as a way to improve lives, says Cllr Nick Ireland.

DEVOLUTION

Reflecting on devolution

By Katherine Fairclough | 29 July 2025

Katherine Fairclough considers the power of partnership in the Liverpool City Region.

REORGANISATION

EXCLUSIVE: Crawley ponders legal response to unitary dismissal

By Dan Peters | 17 July 2025

Crawley BC is considering its next steps, including a potential judicial review, after local gove...

PLANNING

Slough speeds into the thriving zone

By Will Tuckley | 16 July 2025

Slough’s Simplified Planning Zone shows how the need for a flourishing local economy can be compa...

DEVOLUTION

Strategic authority 'needs to be bigger than Surrey'

By Dan Peters | 02 July 2025

Surrey should be part of a strategic authority on a geography wider than the county, according to...

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Navigating place-based decarbonisation

By Paul Marinko | 02 July 2025

In a rapidly changing world and a sector consumed with financial pressures and local government r...

DEVOLUTION

Think-tank calls for Glasgow mayor

By Dan Peters | 16 June 2025

Glasgow is at risk of falling behind England’s major cities unless it receives a devolution deal ...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Ministry scraps competitive bid element for fund

By Dan Peters | 05 June 2025

The next round of the Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF) will not be allocated by councils biddi...

REORGANISATION

Keeping devolution in sight

By Caroline Green | 02 June 2025

Across Oxfordshire and neighbouring councils, there is real appetite for a collective devolution ...

REORGANISATION

Three years left to live?

By Dan Peters | 02 June 2025

Reorganisation proposals for Surrey have sparked divisions, even between councils with the same p...

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Head of Democratic Services, Elections & Monitoring Officer

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