Metro mayors see potential tensions ahead
MAYORS

Metro mayors see potential tensions ahead

By Andrew Carter | 11 October 2024

Andrew Carter says we will only have to wait until later this autumn to find out exactly how far the expectations of metro mayors have been met by the Government.

POLICY AND POLITICS

Local leadership is the solution

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 04 October 2024

Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton says local government stand ready to rebuild public services, deliverin...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Connecting across missions is easier in places

By Claire Spencer | 04 October 2024

It’s so much easier make the Government's missions link together when you are grounded in places ...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Reviving councils' dormant powers

By David Williams | 12 September 2024

David Williams looks at how councils’ positive Victorian legacy has been curbed and sets out a ma...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Starmer will now need to face down housing activists

By By Ben Page | 12 September 2024

Labour is going to have to upset the same voters that it bent over backwards to reassure in the r...

FINANCE

Mission: possible

By Jon Rowney | 12 September 2024

Jon Rowney says the next Comprehensive Spending Review will be one of the few opportunities that ...

PLACE-MAKING

Getting to the heart of the matter

By Jonathan Werran | 12 September 2024

Jonathan Werran introduces Localis’ latest report, which sets out ‘a roadmap for a transformative...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Lessons from Michael Caine and councils

By Sir Bob Neill | 28 August 2024

Both Labour and the Conservatives must look to local government for solutions to the challenges t...

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...

POLICY AND POLITICS

There is enormous energy and hope out there

By Jessica Studdert | 09 August 2024

The Government has a chance to unleash power and collectively forge new routes to sustainability,...

COMMUNITIES

Brokering a new social contract

By Donna Hall CBE | 16 July 2024

Local government is uniquely positioned to play a huge role in the rebuilding of a new social con...

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