Planning

By Giles Stevens | 12 October 2021

Giles Stevens says the National Infrastructure Commission is awaiting details of how the national...

How to build communities

By Jonathan Werran | 05 October 2021

We need a long-term approach to investing in housing and placemaking that puts the needs of commu...

PLANNING

The logistics blame game must stop

By Robin Woodbridge | 30 September 2021

The logistics sector can help to meet demand for both doorstep deliveries and jobs, but not witho...

WHITEHALL

Future Forum: Councils, not Whitehall, are leaders of place

By Martin Ford | 30 September 2021

Civil service ‘heads of place’ should not supplant councillors, Local Government Association (LGA...

PLANNING

Future Forum: UK faces housing emergency

By Dan Peters | 30 September 2021

Stockport MBC’s chief executive has told The MJ’s Future Forum event that the UK faces a ‘housing...

WHITEHALL

Council accuses government of ignoring planned legal challenge

By Chris Mahony | 28 September 2021

Blackpool Council has accused the Home Office and Serco of ignoring a planned legal challenge ove...

PLANNING

Council officers in appeal bid against planning committee

By Martin Ford | 23 September 2021

Officers at Vale of Glamorgan Council are to lodge an appeal after its planning committee failed ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Councils' net-zero hopes dashed

By Martin Ford | 23 September 2021

There are no plans for new powers, frameworks or funding overhauls in the Government’s net-zero s...

PLANNING

Districts hit back at think tank planning proposals

By Dan Peters | 16 September 2021

District councils have hit back at a think-tank’s call for the Government to transfer planning po...

PLANNING

Here we go again on planning

By Steve Quartermain | 15 September 2021

Will the imminent Government planning proposals be the reforms that end all reforms, asks Steve Q...

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Redbridge London Borough Council

Director of Quality, Partnerships and Commissioning (Children and Families)

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